Fix smtp response timeout
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495ae4b0 1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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8Exim version 4.93
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10
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11JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
12 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
40ed89b3 13
fc243e94 14JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
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15 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
16 its own TCP segment.
17
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18JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
19 each verb.
20
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21JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
22
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23JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
24
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25JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
26 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
27
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28JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
29 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
30 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
31 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
32 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
33 suitably configured).
34
c05bdbd6 35JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
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36 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
37
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38JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
39 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
40 crash could result.
41
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42JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
43 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
44
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45JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
46 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
47 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
48 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
49 to this system.
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51JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
52 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
53 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
54
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55JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
56 output.
57
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58JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
59 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
60
3c55eef2 61JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
00c0dd4e 62 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
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63 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
64 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
65 input).
66
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67HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
68 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
69 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
70 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
71 (It was "hdr.$pid".)
72
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73HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
74 shared (NFS) environment.
75
76HS/02 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
77 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
78 affected.
79
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80JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
81 on some platforms for bit 31.
82
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83JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
84 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
85 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
86 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
87 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
88 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
89 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
90 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
91
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92JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
93
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94JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
95 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
96
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97JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
98 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
99 facility.
100
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101JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
102 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
103 documentation.
104
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105JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
106 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
107 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previoud the default was to
108 not do so.
109
59c0959a 110JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
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111 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
112 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
113
114JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
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115 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
116 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
117 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
118 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
59c0959a 119
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120JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
121 reject under TFO.
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efad2f41 123JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
4e48d56c 124 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
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125 be requested on all coneections.
126
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127JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
128 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
129
6ee11061 130PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
0a5441fc 131
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132JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
133 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
134 one for these; the option was ignored.
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136JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
137 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
138 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
139 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
140
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142Exim version 4.92
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144
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145JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
146 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
147
148JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
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149 non-signal-safe functions being used.
150
151JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
152 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
153 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
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155JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
156 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
157 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
158
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159JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
160 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
161 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
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162 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
163 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
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164 messed with.
165
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166PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
167 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
168
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169JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
170 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
171 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
172 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
173 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
174 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
175 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
176
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177JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
178 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
179
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180JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
181 legitimate.
182
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183JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
184 Previously this would segfault.
185
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186JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
187 segfault.
188
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189JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
190 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
191 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
192 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
193 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
194 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
195
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196JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
197
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198JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
199 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
200 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
201 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
202
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203JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
204
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205JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
206 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
207 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
208 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
209
5054c4fd 210JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
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211
212JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
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214JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
215 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
216 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
217
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218JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
219 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
220 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
221
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222PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
223
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224JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
225 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
226 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
227 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
228
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229PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
230 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
231 promised '?' replacement.
232
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233PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
234
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235JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
236 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
237 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
238 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
239 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
240
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241JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
242 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
243 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
244
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245JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
246 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
247 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
248
7ea1237c 249JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
570cb1bd 250 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
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251 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
252
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253JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
254 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
255 hope that is portable enough.
256
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257JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
258 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
259 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
260 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
261
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262JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
263 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
264 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
265
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266JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
267 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
268 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
269 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
270
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271JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
272 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
273
75c121f0 274JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
059f2ace 275 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
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276 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
277 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
278
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279JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
280 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
281 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
282
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283JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
284 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
285 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
286 the previous G, M, k.
287
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288JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
289 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
290 it was unset.
291
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292JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
293 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
294 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
295 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
296
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297JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
298 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
299
de6f74f2 300JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
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301 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
302 off past the nul-terimation.
303
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304JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
305 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
306 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
307 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
308 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
309
aa6e77af 310JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
aaf3e414 311
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312JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
313 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
314 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
315 actually does fail.
316
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317AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
318 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
319
320JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
321 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
322 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
518b70e9 323
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324JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
325 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
326 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
327
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328JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
329 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
330
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c39c8870 335GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
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336 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
337 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
338 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
339 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
340 be defined in redis_servers.
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342GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
343 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
344
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345JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
346 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
347 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
348 extant use locations.
349
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350JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
351 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
352
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353JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
354 Previously only the last row was returned.
355
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356JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
357 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
358 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
359 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
360 input.
361
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362JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
363 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
364 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
365 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
366 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
367 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
368 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
369 Main pool for expansions.
370 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
371 active in the testsuite.
372 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
373
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374JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
375 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
376 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
377 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
378 round-robin DNS.
379
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380JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
381 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
382 failure response.
383
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384JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
385 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
386 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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387
388JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
389 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
390 ClamAV interface method is removed.
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392JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
393 rows affected is given instead).
394
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395JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
396 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
397
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398JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
399 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
400 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
401 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
402 for all multi-message initiating connections.
403
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404JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
405 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
406 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
407
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408JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
409 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
410 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
411 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
412 separate.
413
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414JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
415 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
416 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
417 fake-reject.
418
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419HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
420
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421JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
422 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
423
aab9a843 424PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 425 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 426 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 427
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428JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
429 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
430 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
431 and send a quit.
432
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433JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
434 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
435
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436JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
437 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
438 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
439
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440JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
441 for the build is renamed.
442
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443JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
444 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
445 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
446
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447JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
448 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
449 result replacing the original.
450
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451JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
452 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
453 and the resources needed to be freed.
454
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455JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
456
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457JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
458 was not propagated.
459
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460JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
461 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
462 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
463 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
464
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465JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
466 length value. Previously this would segfault.
467
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468HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
469 newer versions of the scanner.
470
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471JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
472 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
473 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
474 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
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475 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
476 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
477 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
e04bfa34 478
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479JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
480 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
481 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
482 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
483 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
484 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
485 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
486 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
487 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
488 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
489
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490JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
491 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
492
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493JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
494
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495HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
496 allows proper process termination in container environments.
497
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498JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
499 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
500
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501JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
502 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
503 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
504
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505JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
506 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
507 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
5add7dc4 508 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
857eaf37 509
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510JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
511 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
512 would be spooled.
513
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514PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
515 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
516
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517HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
518 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
519 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
520 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
521 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
ad93c40f 522
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523JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
524 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
525 lines.
526
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527JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
528 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
529
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530PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
531 suffix list.
532
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533JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
534 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
535 "bare" representation.
536
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537JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
538 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
539 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
540 corrupted the output.
541
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545
546JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
547 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
548 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
549 pairs of long lines into single ones.
550
856d1e16
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551PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
552 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
553
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554JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
555 This permits better logging.
556
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557JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
558 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
559 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
560 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
561 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 562 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 563
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564JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
565 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
566 "exiwhat" output.
567
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568PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
569 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
570 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
571
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572JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
573 than 255 are no longer allowed.
574
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575JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
576 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
577 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
578 client, there is no benefit for these.
579 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
580 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
581 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
582 is used (3.2.4 +).
583
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584PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
585 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
586
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587JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
588 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
589 erroneously found still-pending ones.
590
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591JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
592 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
593
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594JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
595 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
596 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
597 signature and again for transmission.
598
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599JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
600 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 601 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
eeb35890 602
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603JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
604 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
605 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
606 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
607 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
608 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
609 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
610
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611JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
612 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
613 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 614 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
40525d07 615
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616PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
617 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
618 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
619 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
620 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
621 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
622 processing options.
623
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624JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
625 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
626 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
627 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
628 connections.
925ac8e4 629
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630PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
631 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
632 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
633 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
634 versions.
635
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636JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
637 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
638 inaccessible.
639
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640JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
641 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
642 banner-time rejection.
643
a843a57e
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644JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
645 callout/hold.
646
8e041ae0
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647PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
648 is the name of a transport.
833c70bc
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649 Fixes bug 2140.
650
35a04365
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651HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
652
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653JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
654 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
655
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656JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
657 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
658 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
659 during compilation.
660
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661JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
662 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
663 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 664 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 665
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666JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
667 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
668 initial verify call returned a defer.
669
ad1a76fe 670JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
14de8063
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671 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
672
ad1a76fe
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673JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
674 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
675
135e9496
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676JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
677 if present. Previously it was ignored.
678
f2ed27cf
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679JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
680 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
681
7eb0e5d2
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682JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
683 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
684 extensible.
685
4f9f4be4
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686PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
687 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
688
dc4de9cc
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689PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
690 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
691 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
692
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693JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
694 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
695 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
696 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
697
0768462d 698HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
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699 and confused the parent.
700
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701JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
702 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
703
9e0ed81f
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704JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
705 for log purposes.
706
2540f2f8
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707JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
708 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
709 out-of-order delivery.
710
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711JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
712 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
713 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
714 error for the HELO.
715
e99a3a6c
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716JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
717 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
718 desynchronisation.
719
18067c75
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720JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
721 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
722 one run was done. Bug 2189.
723
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724JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
725 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
726 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
727 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
728 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
729 message is still "Temporary local problem".
730
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731JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
732 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
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733 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
734
735HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
736 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
737 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
625667b6 738
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739JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
740 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
741 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
742 though a different problem.
743
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9427e879 748JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 749 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 750
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751JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
752
4c57a40e
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753PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
754 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
755
5d036699
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756JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
757 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
758
f4630439
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759JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
760 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
761 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
762 before acknowledging the chunk.
763
f988ce57
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764PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
765 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
766 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
767
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768JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
769 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
770 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
771 should.
772
773JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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774 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
775 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
fd047340 776
bd8fbe36 777JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
902fbd69
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778 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
779
bd8fbe36
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780JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
781 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
782 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
783 body hash calculated value.
784
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785JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
786 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
787 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
788
44e6651b
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789JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
790
791JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
792 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
793
794JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
795 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
796 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
797
798JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
799 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
800 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
801 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
802 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
803 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
804
805JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
806 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
807 past that check, despite the cost.
808
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809JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
810 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
811 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
812
f700ea4d
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813PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
814 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
815 TLS library to consume.
816
da88acae
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817PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
818
f6ef9370
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819PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
820
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821JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
822 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
823 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
824 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
825 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
826 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
827 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
828
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829PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
830
831PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
832
833PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
834 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
835 should be warning-free.
836
8b2b9480
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837JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
838
839HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
840 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
841
d953610f
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842HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
843 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
844 general solution here.
845
7dc5f827
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846PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
847 already-broken messages in the queue.
848
4bb432cb
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849JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
850
3b1a84c8
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851JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
852
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857JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
858 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 859
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860JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
861 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
862 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
863
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864JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
865 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
866 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
867 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
868 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
869 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
870 if one fails this test.
871 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
872 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
873
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874JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
875 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
876
23bb6982 877JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 878 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 879
0bd1b1ed 880JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 881 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 882
20b9a2dc
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883JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
884 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
885
05392bbc
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886JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
887 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
888
1a6230a3
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889JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
890
cfab9d68
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891JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
892 certificate).
893
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894JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
895 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
896 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
897 connection after a verify cache hit.
898 Do not update it with the verify result either.
899
900JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
901 when routing results in more than one destination address.
902
ae8386f0
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903JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
904 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
905 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
906 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
907 when the cutthrough connection is made).
908
0d9fa8c0
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909JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
910 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
911
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912JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
913 Previously they were not counted.
914
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915JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
916 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
917 that needed the lookup.
918
4c04137d 919JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
27b9e5f4
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920 distinguished as "(=".
921
1435d4b2
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922JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
923 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
924
eea0defe
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925JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
926
927JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
928 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 929
4c04137d 930JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
72a201e2
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931 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
932
1c788856
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933JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
934 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
935 compatible.
936
e3b1f624
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937JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
938 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
939 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
940 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
941
a57ce043
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942JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
943
f59aaaaa 944JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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945 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
946 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 947
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948JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
949 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
950 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
951 be lost.
952
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953JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
954 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
955 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
956 itself :(
957
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958JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
959 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
960 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
961
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962JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
963 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
964 options.
965
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966JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
967
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968PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
969 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
970
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971PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
972 are not in the system include path.
973
ad7fc6eb 974JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 975 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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976 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
977 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 978
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979JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
980 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
981 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
982
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983JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
984
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985HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
986 an incoming connection.
987
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988HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
989 to rspamd.
990
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991HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
992 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 993
87cb4a16 994JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 995 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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996
997
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1001JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1002 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1003 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1004 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 1005
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1006TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1007 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1008
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1009TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1010 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1011 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1012 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1013 outgoing I= field.
1014
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1015JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1016 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1017 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1018 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1019 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1020 check on the next write.
1021
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1022HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1023 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1024 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1025 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1026 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1027
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1028JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1029 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1030
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1031JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1032 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1033 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1034
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1035JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1036 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1037 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1038 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1039
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1040HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1041 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1042
4c04137d 1043JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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1044 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1045
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1046JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1047 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1048 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1049 distinct.
1050
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1051JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1052
1053JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1054
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1055JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1056
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1057JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1058 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1059
98b98887 1060JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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1061 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1062
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1063JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1064
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1065JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1066 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1067
1068JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1069
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1070JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1071 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1072
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1073JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1074
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1075JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1076 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 1077 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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1078 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1079 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1080 they will retry in-clear.
1081 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1082 at installation time.
1083
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1084HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1085 with the $config_file variable.
1086
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1087JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1088 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1089 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1090 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 1091 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
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1093GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1094 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1095 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1096 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1097 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1098
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1099JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1100
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1101JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1102 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1103 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1104 list order is no longer honoured.
1105
4c04137d 1106JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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1107 for DKIM processing.
1108
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1109JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1110 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
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1112JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1113 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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1114 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1115 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 1116
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1117JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1118 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1119
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1120JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1121 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1122
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1123JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1124 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1125
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1126JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1127
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1128JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1129 cached by the daemon.
1130
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1131JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1132 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1133
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1134JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1135 keys are given for lookup.
1136
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1137JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1138 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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1139 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1140 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 1141
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1142JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1143 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1144 server-side so match that on older versions.
1145
07c73177 1146JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 1147 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 1148 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 1149
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1150JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1151 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1152
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1153JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1154 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1155 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 1156 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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1157 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1158 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1159 initial truncated version.
1160
ab9152ff 1161JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 1162
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1163JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1164
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1165JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1166 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1167
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1168JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1169
bc3c7bb7 1170HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 1171
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1172JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1173 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1174 induced overflows.
1175
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1176JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1177 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1178 stage.
1179
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1180JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1181 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1182
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1183JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1184 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1185 former class.
1186
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1187JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1188 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1189 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1190
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1191JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1192 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1193 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1194 extraction. Accept either.
1195
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1200JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1201 expanded.
1202
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1203JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1204
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1205JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1206 it.
1207
01a4a5c5 1208JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 1209 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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1210 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1211 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1212
cb1d7830 1213JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 1214 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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1215 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1216
610ff438 1217JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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1218 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1219 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1220 TLS connections
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1222JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1223 sites use this now.
1224
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1225JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1226 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1227 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1228 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1229 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1230
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1231JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1232 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 1233 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 1234
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1235JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1236
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1237JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1238 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1239
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1240JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1241 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1242
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1243JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1244 /defer_ok option.
1245
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1246JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1247 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1248
fd4d8871 1249JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 1250 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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1252
1253JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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1254 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1255 specify a port-range.
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1257JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1258 timeout value per server.
1259
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1260JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1261 now have the list separator specified.
1262
8a512ed5 1263JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 1264 option values.
8a512ed5 1265
82c0c8ea 1266JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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1267 under OpenSSL.
1268
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1269JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1270
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1271JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1272 rather than the verbs used.
1273
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1274JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1275 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1276
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1277JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1278
cfab9d68 1279HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 1280 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 1281
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1282JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1283 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1284
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1285HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1286 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1287
4c04137d 1288JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 1289
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1290JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1291
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1292JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1293 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 1294 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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1295 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1296
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1297JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1298
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1299JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1300 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1301
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1302JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1303 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1304
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1305JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1306
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1307JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1308
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1309JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1310
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1311JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1312 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1313
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1314JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1315 added for tls authenticator.
1316
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1317HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1318
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1323TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1324 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1325 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1326 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1327 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1328 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1329 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1330
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1331TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1332 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1333 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1334 function when detected.
1335
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1336JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1337 cause callback expansion.
1338
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1339TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1340 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1341 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1342 instead of bool when processing it.
1343
0f06b4f2 1344JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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1346
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1347JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1348
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1349JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1350
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1351TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1352
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1353TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1354 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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1356JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1357 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1358 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1359 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 1360 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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1361 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1362
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1363JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1364 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1365 exceeded it.
1366
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1367JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1368 version 3.3.6 or later.
1369
4c04137d 1370JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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1371 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1372 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 1373 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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1374 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1375 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1376 option is defined.
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1378TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1379 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1380
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1381JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1382 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1383 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1384 matches.
1385
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1386JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1387 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1388 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1389
ad4c5ff9
JH
1390JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1391 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
8dea5edf
JH
1392
1393JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1394 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1395 syntax errors.
1396
3394b36a 1397JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
8dea5edf
JH
1398
1399JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1400 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1401
3394b36a
TL
1402TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1403 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1404 tarball.
1405
ad4c5ff9
JH
1406JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1407
4c04137d 1408JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
ad4c5ff9
JH
1409 Bug 1561.
1410
1411JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1412 output list separator was used.
1413
8bc732e8 1414
1f0ebb98
TL
1415Exim version 4.84
1416-----------------
09728d20
TL
1417TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1418 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1419 return.
1f0ebb98 1420
a612424f 1421JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 1422 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
a612424f
JH
1423
1424JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1425
1426TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 1427 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 1428
1f0ebb98 1429
c0e56233
TF
1430Exim version 4.83
1431-----------------
1432
1433TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1434
1435 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1436 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1437 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1438 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1439 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1440 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1441
7245734e
TF
1442TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1443 utilities have not been installed.
1444
fd5dad68
JH
1445JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1446 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1447
5428a946
TL
1448TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1449 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1450
a3c86431
TL
1451TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1452 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
8ded8589
TL
1453 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1454 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 1455
aa26e137
JH
1456JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1457
5a1b8443
WB
1458TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1459 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1460
72c9e342
PP
1461PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1462 not dns_use_dnssec.
1463
76f44207
WB
1464JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1465
770747fd
MFM
1466TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1467 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1468 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1469
8ddef691 1470TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
982650ec
TL
1471 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1472 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1473 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1474 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1475 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1476
b9c2e32f
AR
1477JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1478
e45a1c37
JH
1479JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1480 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1481
67d81c10
JH
1482JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1483 failed delivery.
1484
b1f8e4f8
JH
1485JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1486
511a6c14 1487JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
JH
1488
1489JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1490 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1491
51c7471d
JH
1492JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1493 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1494
3695be34
TL
1495TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1496
1e06383a
TL
1497JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1498
76146973
JH
1499JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1500 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1501
1502 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1503 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1504 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1505
8c8b8274
TL
1506TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1507 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1508 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1509 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1510
35aba663
JH
1511JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1512
8c51eead 1513JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
578897ea
JH
1514 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1515 lookup).
8c51eead 1516
deae092e
HS
1517TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1518 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1519 Schlichting.
35aba663 1520
fd3b6a4a 1521JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1522 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1523
8d91c6dc
LT
1524TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1525 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1526
2b4a568d
JH
1527JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1528
d2af03f4
HS
1529TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1530 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1531 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1532
9d1c15ef
JH
1533JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1534 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1535
44662487
JH
1536JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1537 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
6a8a60e0
JH
1538 hosts_request_ocsp.
1539
ed3bba5f 1540JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1541 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1542 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1543
8ccd00b1
JH
1544JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1545
8ded8589
TL
1546TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1547 Christian Aistleitner.
1548
f2de3a33
JH
1549JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1550
6eb02f88
TL
1551TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1552 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1553
00bff6f6
JH
1554JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1555 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1556
071c51f7
JH
1557JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1558 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1559
a6d4c44e
TF
1560TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1561 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1562
3ae173e7
ACK
1563TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1564 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1565
c13d09b8
TL
1566TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1567 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1568 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1569
0df4ab80
JH
1570JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1571
66be95e0
PP
1572PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1573 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1574 Jasper Wallace.
1575
1bd0d12b
JH
1576JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1577
0de7239e
TL
1578TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1579 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1580 CVE-2014-2972
1581
fd3b6a4a 1582
2c422e6f 1583Exim version 4.82
98a90c36
PP
1584-----------------
1585
1586PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1587
12f69989
PP
1588PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1589 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1590
54c90be1
PP
1591PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1592 by GnuTLS.
1593
1f4a55da
PP
1594PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1595 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1596 routines.
1597
13363eba 1598PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1599
66645890 1600PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
e402235f
PP
1601 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1602 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1603 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1604 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1605
a3fb9793 1606PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
PP
1607 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1608 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1609 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1610 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1611 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1612
d27f98fe 1613TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1614
6822b909
TL
1615TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1616
e7568d51
TL
1617TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1618 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1619
ae0e32ee 1620TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1621 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1622 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
TL
1623
1624TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1625
e2658fff
TL
1626TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1627
83712b39
TL
1628TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1629 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1630
976b7e9f
JH
1631JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1632
be4a1376
JH
1633JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1634
ec4b68e5
PP
1635PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1636
d7148a07
NM
1637NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1638 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1639
585121e2 1640JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1641
2519e60d
TL
1642PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1643 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1644 function.
a5f239e4 1645
13d08c90
PP
1646PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1647 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1648
bef3ea7f
JH
1649JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1650 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1651 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1652
846726c5
JH
1653JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1654
3a796370
JH
1655JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1656
ea722490 1657JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1658 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1659
b1b05573
JH
1660JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1661 Bugzilla 884.
1662
362145b5
JH
1663JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1664 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1665
3c0a92dc
JH
1666JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1667 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1668
6d7c6175
PP
1669PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1670 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1671 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1672
6f123593
JH
1673JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1674 authenticators.
1675
c8e2fc1e
JH
1676JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1677 for control.
1678
005ac57f
PP
1679PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1680
3f1df0e3
PP
1681PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1682 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1683 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1684 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1685
67bd1ab3
TF
1686TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1687
1688 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1689 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1690 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1691 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1692 the retry rules.
1693
1694 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1695 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1696 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1697
1698 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1699 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1700 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1701 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1702
1ddeb334
TF
1703 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1704 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1705 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1706 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1707 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1708 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1709 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1710
1711 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1712 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1713
326cdc37
TF
1714TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1715
1716 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1717
1718 Resent-From: f
1719
1720 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1721 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1722 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1723 username as equal to the username.
1724
1725 This change corrects that bug.
1726
f62514b3
GF
1727GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1728 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1729 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1730
eb505532
TF
1731TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1732
14c7b357
PP
1733PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1734 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1735 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1736 NULL dereference and crash.
1737
94eaf700
PP
1738JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1739
6f5a440a
PP
1740PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1741 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1742 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1743
514ee161
SC
1744SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1745
fd98a5c6
JH
1746JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1747 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1748 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1749 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1750 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1751 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1752 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1753 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1754 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1755 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1756 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1757
035c7f1e
PP
1758PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1759 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1760
ff284120
PP
1761PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1762 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1763 Bugzilla 880.
1764
26e72755
PP
1765PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1766 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1767 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1768 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1769 an empty string is now equivalent.
1770
0fbd9bff
PP
1771PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1772 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1773 not performing validation itself.
1774
700d22f3
PP
1775PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1776 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1777
fcc8e047
JH
1778JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1779 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1780
4c04137d 1781TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1782
8c020188
PP
1783PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1784 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1785 other false fix of the same issue.
1786 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1787 Bugzilla 1363.
1788
d13cdd30
PP
1789PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1790 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1791
e2fbf4a2
PP
1792PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1793 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1794 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1795
f4c1088b
PP
1796PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1797 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1798 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1799
c5c2182f
PP
1800TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1801
73431ca9
JH
1802JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1803
2d07a215
TL
1804TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1805 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1806
a30a8861
TL
1807TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1808 Alexander Miroch.
1809
33382dd9
TL
1810TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1811 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1812 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1813 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1814 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1815
046172e6
TL
1816TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1817 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1818
581d7bee 1819TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1820 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1821 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1822
1823TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1824 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1825 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1826 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1827
237b2cf2
TL
1828TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1829
9fc5a352
TL
1830TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1831 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1832 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1833
b10e4ec2
TL
1834TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1835
e2cebd74
TL
1836TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1837 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1838 interaction.
1839
1840TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1841 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1842
2519e60d
TL
1843TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1844 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1845
e78e6ecf 1846
4263f395
PP
1847Exim version 4.80.1
1848-------------------
1849
1850PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1851 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1852 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1853
ea722490 1854
b1770b6e 1855Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1856-----------------
1857
1858PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1859 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1860 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1861
23c7e742
NM
1862NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1863
b322aac8
NM
1864NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1865 improved.
1866
4a891427
NM
1867NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1868
c1e794ba 1869PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1870
97753960
PP
1871PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1872
1873PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1874 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1875
df6303fa
PP
1876PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1877 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1878
7e6a8985
PP
1879PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1880 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1881
f1e05cc7 1882PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1883 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1884 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1885
4c287009
PP
1886PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1887
b98bb9ac
PP
1888PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1889 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1890
4a6a987a
PP
1891PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1892
c45dd180 1893PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1894
7db8d074
PP
1895PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1896 non-compliant senders.
1897 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1898
eae0036b 1899NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1900 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1901 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1902
dec5017e
PP
1903PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1904 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1905 in spool file corruption.
1906
c80c5570
PP
1907PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1908 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1909 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1910 "Got SSL error 2".
1911
076b11e2
PP
1912TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1913 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1914 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1915
5407bfff
JH
1916JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1917 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1918
9e45c72b
PP
1919JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1920
e74376d8
PP
1921PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1922 diagnostics.
1923 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1924
4c04137d 1925PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1926 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1927 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1928
7be682ca
PP
1929PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1930 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1931 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1932 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1933
ef840681
PP
1934PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1935 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1936
5bfb4cdf
PP
1937PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1938 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1939 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1940 resolver implementation change.
1941
c6e95d22
PP
1942PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1943 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1944
9cbad13b
PP
1945PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1946
9ee44efb
PP
1947PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1948
6a6084f8
PP
1949PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1950 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1951
12dd53c7
PP
1952PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1953 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1954
9e45c72b 1955JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1956 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1957
17c76198
PP
1958PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1959 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1960 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1961 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1962 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1963
53947857 1964PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1965
eae0036b 1966PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1967 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1968 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1969
9e45c72b 1970JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1971
7390e768
PP
1972PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1973 read-only, out of scope).
1974 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1975
08488c86
PP
1976PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1977 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1978 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1979 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1980
6475bd82
PP
1981PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1982
81f91683
PP
1983PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1984 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1985 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1986 real issues in debug logging.
1987
5779e6aa
PP
1988PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1989 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1990
3375e053
PP
1991PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1992 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1993 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1994
1995PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1996 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1997 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1998 problems.
3375e053 1999
9d26b8c0
PP
2000PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2001 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2002
57eb9e91 2003PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
2004 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2005 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2006 needs to override this, it can.
2007
16880d1a
PP
2008PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2009 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2010 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2011
a799883d
PP
2012PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2013 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2014 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2015 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2016
3ecab157 2017PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 2018
0599f9cf 2019
867fcbf5
PP
2020Exim version 4.77
2021-----------------
2022
2023PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2024 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2025
f1a29782
TF
2026TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2027
ab42bd23
TK
2028TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2029 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 2030
0ca0cf52
TF
2031TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2032 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2033
921b12ca
TF
2034TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2035 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2036 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2037
2038 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2039 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2040 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2041 not safe for signals.
2042
2043 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2044 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2045 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2046 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2047 exiwhat.
2048
c99ce5c9
TF
2049TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2050
2051 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2052 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2053 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2054 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 2055 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
2056
2057 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2058 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2059 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2060 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2061 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2062 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2063
2064 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2065 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2066 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2067 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2068
2069 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2070 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2071 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2072 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2073
2074 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2075 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2076 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2077 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2078 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2079 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2080 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2081 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2082 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2083
2084 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2085 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2086 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2087 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2088
2089 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2090 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2091 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2092 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2093 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2094 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2095 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2096 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2097 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2098 details in the main documentation.
2099
3634fc25
TF
2100TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2101
792e8a19
TF
2102TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2103
5901f0ab
TF
2104TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2105 repository when doing development or release builds.
2106
7f2a2a43
PP
2107PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2108 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 2109
061b7ebd
PP
2110PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2111 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2112 Bugzilla 97.
2113
e12f8c32
PP
2114PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2115
9e949f00 2116PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
2117 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2118
2119PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2120 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 2121
555ae6af 2122PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
2123 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2124
2125PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2126 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 2127
6f7fe114
PP
2128PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2129 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2130
c566dd90
PP
2131PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2132 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
2133 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2134 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 2135
d6cc7c78 2136PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
2137 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2138 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2139
0d0e4455
PP
2140PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2141
3399bb60 2142PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
2143
2144PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2145 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2146
0ca0cf52 2147
10906672
PP
2148Exim version 4.76
2149-----------------
2150
2151PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2152
754a0503
PP
2153PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2154 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2155
c0c7b2da
PP
2156PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2157
e97d1f08
PP
2158PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2159
084c1d8c
PP
2160PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2161 Bugzilla 1098.
2162
4e7ee012
PP
2163PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2164 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 2165
c8d52a00
PP
2166TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2167 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2168
54e7ce4a
PP
2169PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2170 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2171
5ee6f336
PP
2172PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2173 Bugzilla 1104.
2174
c8d52a00 2175TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
2176 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2177
2178TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2179 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2180 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2181 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2182
2183PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2184 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 2185
10906672 2186
aa097c4c
NM
2187Exim version 4.75
2188-----------------
2189
4c04137d 2190NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
2191 Bugzilla 1073
2192
7f3d9eff
TF
2193TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2194 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2195 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2196
159f52d2
TF
2197TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2198 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2199
0cc9542a
PP
2200PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2201 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2202 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2203
f7274286
PP
2204PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2205 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2206
7b797365
PP
2207PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2208 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2209
caacae52
NM
2210NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2211 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2212
09dcaba9
NM
2213NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2214 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2215
bc19a55b
PP
2216PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2217 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 2218
bd4c9759
NM
2219NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2220 Fixes bug 943.
2221
b72aab72
PP
2222PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2223 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2224
2fe76745
PP
2225PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2226 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2227
76aa570c
PP
2228PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2229 SQL string expansion failure details.
2230 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2231
f1e5fef5
PP
2232PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2233 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2234
4d805ee9
PP
2235PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2236 extern declarations in function scope.
2237 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2238
cd59ab18
PP
2239PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2240 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2241 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2242 a kernel bug).
2243
332f5cf3
PP
2244PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2245 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2246
29cfeb94
PP
2247PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2248 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2249
660242ad
PP
2250PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2251 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2252
bc4bc4c5
PP
2253PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2254 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2255
2e64baa9
NM
2256NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2257 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2258 Dennis Davis.
2259
4c04137d 2260PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 2261
6bac1a9a
PP
2262PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2263
552193f0
NM
2264NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2265 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 2266
1b587e48
TF
2267TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2268 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2269
aa097c4c 2270
8c07b69f
TF
2271Exim version 4.74
2272-----------------
2273
2274TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2275 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2276
c0ea85ab
TF
2277TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2278 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2279
0761d44e
TF
2280TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2281
0a349494
PP
2282DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2283 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2284 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2285
2286PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2287 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2288 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2289
fea24b2e
PP
2290PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2291 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2292 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2293 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2294
6545de78
PP
2295PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2296 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2297 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2298 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2299
1670ef10
PP
2300PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2301 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2302 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2303 arbitrary files.
2304
c0886197
PP
2305PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2306 (Wolfgang Breyha)
2307
b7487bce
PP
2308PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2309 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2310 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2311 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2312 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2313
8c07b69f 2314
97fd1e48 2315Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 2316-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
2317
2318PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2319 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2320 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2321
6901c596
PP
2322PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2323 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2324
a8c8d6b5
JJ
2325JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2326
77bb000f
PP
2327PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2328
a29e5231
PP
2329PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2330
ec5a0394 2331PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 2332
55c75993
PP
2333PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2334
453a6645 2335PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
2336 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2337 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
2338 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2339
8544e77a
PP
2340PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2341 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2342 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
2343 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2344 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 2345
83e029d5
PP
2346PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2347
ed7f7860
PP
2348PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2349
7d9f747b
PP
2350PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2351
4b2241d2
PP
2352PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2353
10385c15
PP
2354PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2355
dbc4b90d
PP
2356PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2357
532be449
PP
2358PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2359
6a8de854 2360PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
2361 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2362 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 2363
5dc43717
JJ
2364JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2365
2366JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2367 "exim" to be used
55c75993 2368
3346ab01
PP
2369PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2370 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2371
491fab4c
PP
2372PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2373 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2374 Notification from John Horne.
2375
13eb9497
PP
2376PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2377 compatible.
2378
2379PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2380 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2381 it normally works.
2382
7f36d675
DW
2383DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2384 access.
2385
c1d94452
DW
2386DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2387 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2388 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2389
e2f5dc15
DW
2390DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2391 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2392 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2393 configuration file.
2394
cd25e41d
DW
2395DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2396 option (effectively making it always true).
2397
261dc43e
DW
2398DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2399 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2400
fa32850b
DW
2401DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2402 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2403
79d4bc3d
PP
2404PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2405 run-time user, instead of root.
2406
43236f35 2407PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
2408 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2409
fb08281f
DW
2410DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2411 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2412 arguments.
3346ab01 2413
74935b98
DW
2414DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2415 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2416 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2417
90b6341f
DW
2418DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2419
57730b52
ML
2420NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2421
66581d1e 2422
465e92cf
JJ
2423Exim version 4.72
2424-----------------
2425
453a6645
PP
2426JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2427 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2428 typos
465e92cf 2429
453a6645
PP
2430JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2431 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2432 (Finput)
edae0343 2433
9bd3e22c
NM
2434NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2435 Patch from Alain Williams
2436
bb576ff7
NM
2437NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2438
5a1a5845
NM
2439NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2440 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2441
981a9fad
NM
2442NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2443 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2444
7fc497ee
NM
2445NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2446
1a41defa
JJ
2447JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2448
a466095c 2449NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2450 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2451
94a6bd0b
NM
2452TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2453
2454TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2455
2456MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2457 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2458 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2459
c1b141a8
NM
2460NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2461 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2462
b26eacf1 2463NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2464 Patch by Simon Arlott
2465
179c5980 2466PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2467 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2468
9bd3e22c 2469
7c6d71af
NM
2470Exim version 4.71
2471-----------------
2472
7d9f747b 2473TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2474
f013fb92
NM
2475NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2476
0eb8eedd
NM
2477NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2478
663ee6d9
NM
2479NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2480
177ebd9b
NM
2481NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2482
7c6d71af 2483
210f147e
NM
2484Exim version 4.70
2485-----------------
2486
cdd3bb85 2487TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2488 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2489
2490TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2491 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2492 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2493
2494TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2495 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2496 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2497
2498TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2499 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2500
210f147e
NM
2501NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2502 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2503 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2504 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2505
deafd5b3
NM
2506NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2507 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2508 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2509
089793a4
TF
2510TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2511
5f16ca82
TF
2512TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2513
dae9d94e 2514NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2515 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2516
7d9f747b 2517NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2518
06864c44
TF
2519TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2520 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2521 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2522 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2523
65a7d8c3 2524NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2525 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2526
23510047 2527TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2528
7d9f747b 2529NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2530
7d8eec3a 2531NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2532 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2533
89dec7b6
TF
2534TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2535 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2536
a99de90c
TF
2537TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2538 that they are available at delivery time.
2539
e2803e40
TF
2540TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2541
7199e1ee
TF
2542TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2543 incoming_port log selectors.
2544
e276e04b
TF
2545TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2546 setting expands to an empty string.
2547
ce552449 2548NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2549 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2550
e765a0f1 2551NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2552 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2553
4f054c63 2554NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2555 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2556
7d9f747b
PP
2557NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2558 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2559
7d9f747b
PP
2560NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2561 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2562
b52bc06e 2563NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2564 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2565
447de4b0
NM
2566NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2567
4c69d561 2568NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2569 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2570
d5c39246 2571NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2572 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2573
0b23848a
TK
2574TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2575
8f3414a1 2576NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2577 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2578
fb6f955d
NM
2579NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2580
2581NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2582
7d9f747b
PP
2583NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2584 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2585
7d9f747b
PP
2586NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2587 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2588
7d9f747b
PP
2589NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2590 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2591
7d9f747b
PP
2592NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2593 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2594
7d9f747b
PP
2595NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2596 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2597
7d9f747b
PP
2598NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2599 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2600
7d9f747b
PP
2601NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2602 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2603
7d9f747b 2604NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2605 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2606
7d9f747b 2607NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2608
7d9f747b
PP
2609NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2610 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2611
7d9f747b 2612NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2613
7d9f747b 2614NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2615
7d9f747b 2616NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2617
7d9f747b 2618NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2619
17792b53 2620NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2621 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2622
7d9f747b
PP
2623NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2624 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2625
91576cec 2626NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2627 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2628
7d9f747b
PP
2629NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2630 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2631
7d9f747b 2632NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2633
7d9f747b 2634NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2635
7d9f747b 2636NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2637
7d9f747b 2638NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2639
deafd5b3 2640
47db1125
NM
2641Exim version 4.69
2642-----------------
2643
4b3504d0
TK
2644TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2645 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2646 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2647
2648 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2649 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2650 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2651 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2652 build errors in sieve.c.
2653
81ea09ca
NM
2654NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2655 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2656 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2657
f13cddcb
SC
2658SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2659
7d9f747b 2660NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2661
7d9f747b 2662NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2663
7d9f747b 2664NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2665
2666
eb4c0de6
PH
2667Exim version 4.68
2668-----------------
2669
2670PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2671
6a3bceb1
PH
2672PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2673 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2674 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2675 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2676 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2677 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2678 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2679 for iplsearch lookups.
2680
2681 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2682 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2683 previously such lookups could never work.
2684
4c04137d 2685 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2686 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2687 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2688
2e30fa9d
TK
2689TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2690 version.
2691
0806a9c5
MH
2692MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2693 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2694 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2695 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2696 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2697 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2698
ae276964
TK
2699TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2700 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2701
0f2cbd1b
MH
2702MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2703 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2704 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2705 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2706 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2707 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2708
2b85bce7
PH
2709PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2710 local_scan API.
2711
93655c46
PH
2712PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2713
6c512171
PH
2714PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2715 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2716 encrypted.
2717
2718PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2719 by clients under certain conditions.
2720
aa6dc513
PH
2721PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2722 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2723
a96603a0
PH
2724PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2725
8f240103
PH
2726PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2727 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2728
2729PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2730
d677b2f2
PH
2731PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2732
d52120f2
PH
2733PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2734
64f2600a
PH
2735PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2736 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2737
8669f003
PH
2738PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2739
a4dc33a8
PH
2740PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2741 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2742
d6a60c0f
PH
2743PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2744
8f128379
PH
2745PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2746
8932dffe
PH
2747PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2748 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2749 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2750 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2751
ddea74fa 2752PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2753 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2754 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2755
ddea74fa 2756PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2757 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2758
ddea74fa
PH
2759PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2760
ce9f225c
PH
2761PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2762
19897d52
PH
2763PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2764
bc64a74d
PH
2765PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2766 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2767 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2768
eb4c0de6 2769
b4ed4da0
PH
2770Exim version 4.67
2771-----------------
2772
22ad45c9
MH
2773MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2774 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2775 Jan Srzednicki.
2776
b4ed4da0
PH
2777PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2778 issue a MAIL command.
2779
431b7361
PH
2780PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2781
2782 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2783
2784 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2785 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2786 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2787 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2788 item. This has been fixed.
2789
2790PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2791 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2792
83da1223
PH
2793PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2794 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2795
54fc8428
PH
2796PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2797 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2798 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2799
34c5e8dd
SC
2800SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2801
bbe15da8
PH
2802PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2803 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2804 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2805 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2806 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2807
0e8a9471
MH
2808MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2809 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2810 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2811
f0872424
PH
2812PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2813 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2814 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2815 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2816
b01dd148
PH
2817PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2818
6bf342e1
PH
2819PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2820
273f34d0
PH
2821PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2822 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2823 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2824 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2825 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2826
cf8b11a5
PH
2827PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2828
41c7c167
PH
2829PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2830 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2831 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2832 values).
2833
9c57cbc0
PH
2834PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2835
f3f065bb
PH
2836PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2837
047bdd8c
PH
2838PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2839
0ce9abe6
PH
2840PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2841
0e22dfd1
PH
2842PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2843
4c590bd1
PH
2844PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2845 no_callout_flush is set.
2846
09945f1e
PH
2847PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2848 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2849 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2850 fixed.
2851
c51b8e75
PH
2852PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2853
e28326d8 2854PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2855 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2856 other ACL rejections are.
2857
75b1493f
PH
2858PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2859 with slight modification.
2860
7c5214ec
PH
2861PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2862 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2863
4311097e
PH
2864PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2865 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2866 connection.
2867
29f89cad
PH
2868PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2869 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2870
5e687460
SC
2871SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2872
c3611384
PH
2873PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2874 expansion side effects.
2875
5a11a7b4
PH
2876PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2877 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2878 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2879 be the same.
2880
0e20aff9
MH
2881MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2882 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2883 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2884
ca86f471
PH
2885PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2886 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2887 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2888 were accidentally chopped off.
2889
a14e5636
PH
2890PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2891 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2892 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2893 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2894 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2895 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2896 pipelining has not been advertised.
2897
ec95d1a6
PH
2898PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2899
42855d71
PH
2900PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2901 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2902 This has been fixed.
2903
57c2c631
PH
2904PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2905 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2906 reported on Solaris.
2907
58c01c94
PH
2908PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2909 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2910 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2911 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2912 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2913 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2914 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2915
dee5a20a
PH
2916PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2917 cpus.
2918
d2ee6114
PH
2919PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2920
b2d5182b
PH
2921PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2922
79749a79
PH
2923PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2924 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2925 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2926 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2927 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2928 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2929
c456d9bb
PH
2930PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2931 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2932 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2933 host_all_ignored option.
2934
cd9868ec
PH
2935PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2936 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2937 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2938 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2939 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2940 is what is supposed to happen).
2941
ebeaf996
PH
2942PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2943 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2944 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2945 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2946 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2947 uses the Exim user.
2948
2679d413
PH
2949PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2950 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2951 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2952 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2953 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2954 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2955 users.
2956
84024b72
PH
2957PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2958
8005d38e
SC
2959SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2960 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2961 (Jez Hancock).
2962 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2963 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2964
3298c6c6
SC
2965SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2966
a43a27c5
PH
2967PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2968
58eb016e 2969PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2970 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2971 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2972 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2973 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2974 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2975 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2976 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2977 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2978 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2979 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2980
b43a74ea
PH
2981PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2982 advertised in response to EHLO.
2983
b4ed4da0 2984
5dd1517f
PH
2985Exim version 4.66
2986-----------------
2987
2988PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2989 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2990
2991 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2992 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2993
2994 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2995 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2996 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2997
2998 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2999 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3000 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3001 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3002 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3003
3004
93cfa765
TK
3005Exim version 4.65
3006-----------------
3007
3008TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3009 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3010 versions. (#438)
3011
d6066548
MH
3012MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3013 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3014 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3015
4362ff0d
PH
3016PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3017 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3018 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3019 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3020 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3021 rather than extend the field.
3022
93cfa765 3023
944e9e9c
TF
3024Exim version 4.64
3025-----------------
aa41d2de 3026
21d74bd9
TK
3027TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3028 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3029 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3030 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3031 these files.
3032
3033TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3034 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3035 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3036
3037TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3038 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3039 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
3040
3041TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3042 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3043 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3044 in the field name.
3045
2b1c6e3a
PH
3046PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3047 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3048 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3049 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3050 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3051 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3052 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3053 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3054 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3055 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3056 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3057
1f872c80
PH
3058PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3059 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
3060
3061PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3062 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3063 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3064 ignores EPIPE as well.
3065
d203e649
PH
3066PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3067 (quoted-printable decoding).
3068
cc2ed8f7 3069PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 3070 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 3071
ddfcd446
PH
3072PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3073
d45b1de8
PH
3074PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3075
3076PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3077
38a0a95f 3078PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 3079 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 3080
a2405d83
JJ
3081JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3082 in 4.64-PH/09.
3083
3084JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3085 miscellaneous code fixes
3086
6ea85e9a
PH
3087PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3088 rejections.
3089
26da7e20
PH
3090PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3091 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3092 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3093 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3094 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3095 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3096 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3097 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 3098
14aa5a05 3099PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 3100 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
3101 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3102 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3103 function.
3104 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3105 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3106 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3107 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3108 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3109 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3110 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3111 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3112 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3113
ff75a1f7
PH
3114PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3115 decoding.
3116
e6f6568e
PH
3117PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3118 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3119 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3120 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3121 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3122 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3123 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3124 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3125
d6f6e0dc
PH
3126PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3127 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3128 list.
3129
322050c2
PH
3130PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3131 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3132 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3133 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3134 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3135 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3136 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3137 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3138 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3139 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3140 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3141 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3142 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3143
08955dd3
PH
3144PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3145 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3146 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3147 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3148 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3149 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3150 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3151
1eccaa59
PH
3152PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3153 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3154 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3155 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3156 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3157 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3158 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3159 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3160 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3161 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3162
602e59e5
PH
3163PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3164 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3165 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3166 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3167 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3168
411ef850
PH
3169PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3170 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3171 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3172 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3173 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3174 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3175 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3176
7befa435
PH
3177PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3178 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3179 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3180 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3181 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3182 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3183 been verified.
3184
48da4259 3185PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
3186 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3187 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3188 and authorization.)
3189
48da4259
PH
3190PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3191 if any retry times were supplied.
3192
d1d5595c
PH
3193PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3194 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3195 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3196
0ef732d9
PH
3197PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3198
328895cc
PH
3199PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3200
fd700877
PH
3201PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3202 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3203 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3204 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
3205 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3206 before) are ignored.
fd700877 3207
8dce1a6f
PH
3208PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3209 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3210
17af4a17
PH
3211PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3212 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3213 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
3214
3215PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3216 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3217 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3218 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3219 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3220 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3221 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3222 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3223 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3224
3225 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3226 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3227 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3228 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3229 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3230 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3231 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3232 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3233 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3234
3235 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3236 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3237 hammering the server.
3238
c1114884
PH
3239PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3240 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3241
7a0743eb
PH
3242PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3243
0d85fa3f
PH
3244PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3245 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3246 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3247
1bf43b78
PH
3248PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3249 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3250 one case where this was not true.
3251
520de300
PH
3252PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3253 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3254 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3255 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3256 fails.
3257
48c7f9e2
PH
3258PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3259 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3260 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3261 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 3262 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
3263 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3264 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3265 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3266 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3267 smtp transport.
3268
99ea1c86
PH
3269PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3270 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3271 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3272 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3273
a2042e78
PH
3274PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3275 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3276
4fbcfc2e
PH
3277PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3278 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3279 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3280
aa41d2de
PH
3281PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3282
af561417
PH
3283PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3284
3cc66b45
PH
3285PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3286
194cc0e4
PH
3287PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3288 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3289 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3290 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3291
a401ddaa
PH
3292PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3293 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3294
4e88a19f
PH
3295PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3296 be meaningful with "accept".
3297
d7d7b289
SC
3298SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3299 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3300
3301SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3302 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3303 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3304
3305SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3306 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3307 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3308 there is data to show.
3309 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3310
3311SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3312 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3313 as well as the number of messages.
3314
3315SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3316 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3317 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3318
3319SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3320 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3321 have a flag are now skipped.
3322
3323SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3324 Added the -emptyok flag.
3325
3326SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3327 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3328
0ea2a468
JJ
3329JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3330 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 3331 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
3332
3333JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3334 match 4.64-PH/13
3335
3336JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3337 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3338
3339JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3340
3341JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3342 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3343
8a10f5a4
PH
3344PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3345
30e18802
PH
3346PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3347 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3348 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3349 contravention of the specifications.
3350
55728a4f
PH
3351PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3352 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3353 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 3354
d7837193
PH
3355PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3356 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3357 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3358
87054a31
PH
3359PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3360
ea2c01d2
MH
3361MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3362 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3363 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3364 some point in the past.
3365
e4fa6968
PH
3366PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3367 transport during callout processing was broken.
3368
56f5d9bd
PH
3369PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3370 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3371
922e1c28
PH
3372PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3373 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3374
21eb6e72
PH
3375PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3376 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3377
a0540757
PH
3378PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3379
944e9e9c 3380
478be7b0
SC
3381Exim version 4.63
3382-----------------
3383
3384SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3385 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3386
3387SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3388 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3389 there is data to show.
3390 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3391
3392SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3393 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3394
2b965a65
TF
3395TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3396 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 3397
45b91596
PH
3398TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3399 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 3400
c59f5781
TF
3401TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3402 submissions from trusted users.
3403
90fc3069
TF
3404TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3405 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3406
6083aca0
TF
3407TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3408 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3409 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3410 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3411 there is now a framework to start from.
3412
765b530f
PH
3413PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3414 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3415 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3416
4e167a8c
PH
3417PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3418
4608d683
PH
3419PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3420
b8dc3e4a
PH
3421PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3422
5418e93b
PH
3423PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3424 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3425 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3426
b4a9bda2
PH
3427PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3428 libradius.
3429
45b91596
PH
3430PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3431 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3432 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3433
5547e2c5
PH
3434PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3435 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3436 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3437 its arguments.
3438
dbcef0ea
PH
3439PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3440 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3441 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3442 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3443 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3444
25257489
PH
3445PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3446 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3447
c816d124
PH
3448PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3449
a9ccd69a
PH
3450PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3451 operations in malware.c.
3452
75fa1910
PH
3453PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3454 signatures.
3455
a7d7aa58
PH
3456PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3457 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3458 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3459 all.
3460
42119b09
PH
3461PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3462 statements to "add_header".
3463
41609df5
PH
3464PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3465 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3466
a5bd321b
PH
3467PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3468 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3469 latter.
3470
e85a7ad5 3471PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3472 so that it is now:
3473
e85a7ad5
PH
3474 ${if or { \
3475 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3476 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3477 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3478 }{no}{yes}}
3479
e85a7ad5
PH
3480 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3481 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3482
d8fe1c03
PH
3483PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3484 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3485
16282d2b
PH
3486PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3487 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3488 any possible encoding problems.
3489
35d40a98
PH
3490PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3491 but not after initializing Perl.
3492
034d99ab
PH
3493PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3494 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3495 apparently, which is not desirable.
3496
6ec97b1b
PH
3497PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3498 queries.
3499
e22ca4ac
JJ
3500JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3501 --not options
3502
3503JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3504
33d73e3b
PH
3505PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3506 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3507 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3508 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3509
9ecb03f3
PH
3510PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3511 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3512 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3513
084efe8d
PH
3514PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3515 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3516 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3517 0.12.
3518
366fc9f0
PH
3519PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3520 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3521 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3522 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3523 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3524
c59f5781 3525
c887c79e
TF
3526Exim version 4.62
3527-----------------
3528
3529TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3530 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3531
1cce3af8
PH
3532PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3533 patch).
3534
afb3eaaf
PH
3535PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3536 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3537 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3538 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3539 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3540 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3541 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3542 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3543 451 error is used.
3544
e173618b
PH
3545PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3546
dd16e114
PH
3547PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3548 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3549 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3550
f7fd3850
PH
3551PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3552 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3553 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3554 odd errors.
3555
d87df92c
PH
3556PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3557 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3558
7e9f683d
PH
3559PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3560 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3561 option (which defaults to 0600).
3562
bfad5236
PH
3563PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3564
01c490df
PH
3565PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3566 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3567 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3568 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3569 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3570 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3571 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3572
d6629cdc
PH
3573PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3574
1cce3af8 3575
214e2000
PH
3576Exim version 4.61
3577-----------------
3578
3579PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3580 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3581 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3582 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3583 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3584 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3585 addresses as local.
3586
f9daeae0
PH
3587PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3588 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3589
7e66e54d
PH
3590PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3591
c8ea1597
PH
3592PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3593 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3594 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3595 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3596 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3597 grumble.
3598
911f6fde
PH
3599PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3600 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3601
47ca6d6c
PH
3602PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3603 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3604 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3605 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3606 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3607
ed0e9820
PH
3608PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3609 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3610 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3611 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3612
eff37e47
PH
3613PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3614 be the same on different OS.
3615
1921d2ea
PH
3616PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3617 testing.
3618
b3f69ca8
JJ
3619JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3620 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3621
3622JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3623 in 4.61-PH/06
3624
424a1c63
PH
3625PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3626 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3627 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3628 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3629 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3630 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3631 bounce message.
3632
7a100415
PH
3633PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3634 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3635 when Exim was called.
3636
19b9dc85
PH
3637PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3638 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3639
309bd837
PH
3640PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3641 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3642 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3643 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3644
59e82a2a
PH
3645PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3646 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3647 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3648 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3649 changes:
3650
3651 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3652 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3653 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3654
3655 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3656 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3657 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3658
9edc04ce
PH
3659PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3660 feature).
3661
1349e1e5
PH
3662PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3663 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3664 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3665 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3666 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3667 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3668 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3669 values from the SRV records were lost.
3670
ea49d0e1
PH
3671PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3672 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3673 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3674
064a94c9
PH
3675PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3676 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3677 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3678
727071f8
PH
3679PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3680 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3681 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3682 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3683 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3684 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3685 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3686 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3687 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3688 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3689
f78eb7c6
PH
3690PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3691 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3692 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3693
21c28500
PH
3694PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3695 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3696
3697PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3698 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3699 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3700 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3701 is given.
3702
1688f43b
PH
3703PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3704 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3705 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3706
3707PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3708 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3709 PH/23 above applies.
3710
9675b384
PH
3711PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3712 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3713 (for which there is an explicit test).
3714
6a3f1455
PH
3715PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3716
dac79d3e
PH
3717PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3718 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3719 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3720 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3721 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3722
5977a0b3
PH
3723PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3724 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3725 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3726 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3727
c91535f3
PH
3728PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3729 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3730 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3731
0d46a8c8
PH
3732PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3733
278c6e6c
PH
3734PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3735
2cbb4081
PH
3736PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3737 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3738 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3739
3eef829e
PH
3740PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3741 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3742 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3743 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3744 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3745
1ab95fa6
PH
3746PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3747 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3748 the message gets confusing).
3749
230205fc
PH
3750PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3751 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3752 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3753 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3754
75e0e026
PH
3755PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3756 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3757 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3758 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3759 same order.
3760
3761PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3762 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3763 the different processes.
3764
145396a6
PH
3765PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3766
3cd34f13
PH
3767PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3768
11121d3d
JJ
3769JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3770 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3771
3772JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3773 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3774
3775JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3776 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3777 messages matching specified criteria.
3778
8def5aaf
PH
3779PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3780
929ba01c
PH
3781PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3782 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3783
2632889e
PH
3784PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3785 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3786 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3787 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3788 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3789 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3790 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3791 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3792 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3793 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3794
944a9c55
PH
3795PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3796 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3797 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3798
4a23603b
PH
3799PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3800
4730f942
PH
3801PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3802 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3803 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3804 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3805 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3806 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3807 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3808 the variable.
3809
30dba1e6
PH
3810PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3811 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3812
382afc6b
PH
3813PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3814
a86229cf
PH
3815PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3816
50c99ba6
PH
3817PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3818
d35e429d
PH
3819PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3820 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3821 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3822 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3823 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3824 size of the count of files.
3825
f90d018c
PH
3826PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3827
75def545
PH
3828PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3829 used in LMTP mode:
3830
3831 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3832 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3833 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3834 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3835
3836 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3837 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3838 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3839
3840PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3841 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3842 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3843 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3844 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3845
c46782ef
PH
3846PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3847 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3848
71fafd95
PH
3849PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3850 will now be deprecated.
3851
2c5db4fd
PH
3852PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3853
9cf6b11a
JJ
3854JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3855 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3856 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3857
3858JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3859 with very large, slow to parse queues
3860
3861JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3862
3863JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3864
898d150f
PH
3865PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3866 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3867 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3868 SMTP output lines.
3869
46218253
PH
3870PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3871 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3872 Sieve code now uses this.
3873
e97957bc
PH
3874PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3875 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3876
81e509d7
PH
3877PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3878 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3879
3d240ff7
PH
3880PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3881
b37c4101
PH
3882PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3883 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3884 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3885 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3886 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3887
79378e0f
PH
3888PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3889 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3890 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3891 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3892
e49c7bb4
PH
3893PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3894
d114ec46
PH
3895PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3896
f3d7df6c
PH
3897PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3898 is preferred over IPv4.
3899
715ab376
PH
3900PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3901 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3902 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3903 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3904 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3905 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3906 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3907
6b31b150
PH
3908PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3909 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3910 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3911
3912PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3913
d515a917
PH
3914PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3915 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3916 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3917 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3918 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3919 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3920 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3921 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3922 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3923 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3924 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3925
9b8fadde
PH
3926PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3927 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3928 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3929
214e2000 3930
5de37277
PH
3931Exim version 4.60
3932-----------------
3933
cc38ddbf
PH
3934PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3935
3936 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3937 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3938
3939 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3940 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3941 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3942
72fdd6ae
PH
3943PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3944
3945 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3946 not a single digit.
3947
3948 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3949 string.
3950
3951 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3952 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3953 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3954 silly things.
3955
3956 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3957 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3958
3959 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3960 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3961
cb741023
PH
3962PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3963 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3964 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3965
f174f16e
PH
3966PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3967 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3968
c25242d7
PH
3969PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3970 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3971
3972 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3973
3974 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3975 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3976 this:
3977
3978 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3979
82c19f95
PH
3980PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3981 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3982 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3983 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3984 identical. For example:
3985
3986 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3987
3988 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3989 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3990 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3991
d7ffbc12
PH
3992PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3993 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3994 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3995 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3996
9f526266
PH
3997PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3998 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3999 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4000 message.
4001
87fcc8b9
PH
4002PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4003
4004 o fixes some comments
4005 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4006 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4007 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4008 and documents the missing references header update
4009
4010 and most important:
4011
4012 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 4013 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
4014 result)
4015
456682f5
PH
4016PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4017 Electronic Mail") by including:
4018
4019 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4020
4021 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 4022 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
4023 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4024 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4025 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4026
4027 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4028
4029 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4030
4031 The auto-replied keyword:
4032
4033 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4034 message by an automatic process,
4035
4036 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4037
4038 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4039 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4040
4041 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4042 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4043 other messages.
4044
3e46c1aa
PH
4045PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4046 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 4047
49826d12
PH
4048PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4049
eba0c039
PH
4050PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4051 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4052 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4053
a0d6ba8a
PH
4054PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4055 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4056 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4057
f0917727
PH
4058PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4059 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4060 and treats the condition as false.
4061
096fee00
PH
4062PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4063
024bd3c2
PH
4064PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4065 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4066 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4067 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4068 not changing the active code.
4069
4070 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4071 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4072
4073 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4074 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4075
df199fec
PH
4076PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4077 (Bugzilla #53).
4078
d27f1df3
PH
4079PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4080 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4081 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4082 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4083 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4084 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4085 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4086 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4087 the text comparison.
4088
96776534
PH
4089PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4090 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4091 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4092 The same fix has been applied.
4093
5de37277 4094
9a799bc0
PH
4095Exim version 4.54
4096-----------------
4097
4098PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4099 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4100 It now does.
4101
99a4b039
PH
4102PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4103 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4104
4105PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4106
4b233853
PH
4107PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4108 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4109 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4110 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4111 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4112
8857ccfd
PH
4113TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4114 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4115 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4116 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4117 or /domain=).
4118
433a2980
PH
4119PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4120 testing suite.
4121
3e46c1aa 4122
9a799bc0 4123
e3a311ba
TK
4124Exim version 4.53
4125-----------------
4126
4127TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4128 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4129
13b685f9
PH
4130PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4131
395ff96d
PH
4132PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4133
5b68f6e4
PH
4134PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4135 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4136 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4137
1ab52c69
PH
4138PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4139 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4140 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4141
b07e6aa3
PH
4142PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4143 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4144 operating systems.
4145
254e032f
PH
4146PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4147 ${stat: expansion item.
4148
3af76a81
PH
4149PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4150 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4151
2548ba04
PH
4152PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4153 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4154 file for comments.
4155
b6c6011d
PH
4156PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4157
cf39cf57
PH
4158PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4159 setting.
4160
f1513293
PH
4161PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4162 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4163
727549a4
PH
4164TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4165
af46795e
PH
4166PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4167 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4168 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4169 the end of the subprocess.
4170
d7b47fd0
PH
4171PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4172 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4173 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4174 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4175 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4176
ee744174
JJ
4177JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4178
b582ab87
PH
4179TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4180
41a13e0a
PH
4181PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4182 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4183
f625cc5a
PH
4184PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4185
4186PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4187
21f7af35
PH
4188PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4189 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4190 HP-UX compiler.
4191
31480e42
PH
4192PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4193
2d280592
PH
4194PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4195 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4196 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4197
7cd1141b
PH
4198PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4199 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4200
4201PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4202 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4203
750af86e
PH
4204PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4205 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4206
4207 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4208 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4209
4210 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4211 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4212 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4213 contributed by a Radius user.
4214
4215PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4216 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4217
4304270b
TK
4218TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4219 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4220
750af86e
PH
4221PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4222 available.
4223
64ffc24f
PH
4224PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4225 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4226 received.
4227
5dd9625b
PH
4228PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4229 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4230 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4231 header lines when this was not necessary.
4232
5591031b
PH
4233PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4234
ba18e66a
PH
4235PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4236 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4237 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4238 exists".
4239
9cec981f
PH
4240PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4241 -bV or -d is used.
4242
aa2b5c79
PH
4243PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4244 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
4245 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4246 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 4247
48a53b7f
PH
4248PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4249
1c59d63b
PH
4250PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4251
671012da
TK
4252TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4253
1509d3a8
PH
4254PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4255
4256PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4257 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4258 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4259 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4260 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4261 settings.
4262
4263PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4264
2fe1a124
PH
4265PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4266 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4267 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4268 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4269 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4270 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4271 which is clearly wrong.
4272
8800895a
PH
4273PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4274
ccfdb010
PH
4275PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4276 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4277 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4278 subsequently added.
4279
1130bfb0
PH
4280PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4281 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4282
ebcb507f
PH
4283PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4284
c35e155c
PH
4285PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4286 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4287
95d1f782
PH
4288PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4289 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4290
fd6de02e
PH
4291PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4292 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4293
58de37c5
PH
4294PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4295 recipients, not senders.
4296
261cf466
TF
4297TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4298 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4299
3ee512ff
PH
4300PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4301
e08c430f
PH
4302PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4303
bef5a11f
PH
4304PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4305 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4306 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4307 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4308
7546de58
TF
4309TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4310
e5d5a95f
TF
4311TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4312 clock is set back in time.
4313
2e88a017
TF
4314TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4315 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4316
a5f65aa4
TF
4317TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4318 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4319
e7726cbf
PH
4320PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4321 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4322 (see PH/47 above).
4323
a7fdad5b
TF
4324TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4325 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4326 header rewrites.
4327
6af56900
PH
4328PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4329 type ("H").
4330
0925ede6
PH
4331PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4332
66afa403
TF
4333TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4334 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4335 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4336
0154e85a
TF
4337TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4338 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4339 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4340 helo verification defer as a failure.
4341
16f12c76
PH
4342PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4343 actual error message.
4344
bbe902f0 4345
e5a9dba6
PH
4346Exim version 4.52
4347-----------------
4348
4349TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4350
22c3b60b
PH
4351PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4352 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4353 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4354 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4355
06a9b4b5
PH
4356TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4357
c1ac6996
PH
4358PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4359 can still be requested.
4360
9c7a242c
PH
4361PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4362 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4363 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4364 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4365
87ba3f5f
PH
4366TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4367 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4368 circumstances, but probably never did.
4369
4370PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4371 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4372 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4373 in the header line.
4374
29aba418
TF
4375TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4376
fe0dab11
TF
4377TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4378 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 4379
11d337a4
TK
4380TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4381
4382TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4383
415c8f3b
PH
4384PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4385 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4386 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 4387 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
4388 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4389 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 4390
958541e9
PH
4391PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4392 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4393 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4394 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4395 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4396 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4397
c206415f
TK
4398TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4399 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4400
2a4be8f9
PH
4401PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4402 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4403
1cba11c5
SC
4404SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4405 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4406
4c04137d 4407SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
4408
4409SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4410
4411SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4412
4413SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4414
4415SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4416
4417SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4418
1005d00e
TK
4419TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4420
4421TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4422 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4423 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4424
4425TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4426 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4427 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4428 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4429
9b4768fa
PH
4430PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4431 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4432 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4433
4434PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4435 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4436 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4437 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4438
0d7eb84a
PH
4439PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4440 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4441 to be made).
4442
4443PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4444 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4445 should work with maildirs and everything.
4446
40727bee
TK
4447TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4448 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4449
554d2369
TF
4450TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4451 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4452
1f922db1
PH
4453PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4454 function for BDB 4.3.
4455
ef213c3b
PH
4456PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4457
8ac170f3
PH
4458PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4459 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4460 involved.
4461
b1c749bb
PH
4462PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4463 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4464 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4465 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4466 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4467 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4468
4aac9b49
PH
4469PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4470 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4471 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4472 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4473 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4474 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4475 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4476 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4477
294520c8
TK
4478TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4479 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4480 details.
4481
5bd022fe
PH
4482PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4483 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4484
90e9ce59
PH
4485PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4486 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4487 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4488 test. It is now used for both.
4489
5ea81592
PH
4490PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4491 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4492 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4493 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4494 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4495 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4496
c6c2dc1d
PH
4497PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4498 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4499 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4500 string_vformat().
4501
fffffe4c
PH
4502PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4503 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4504 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4505
9a26b6b2
PH
4506PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4507 experimental DomainKeys support:
4508
4509 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4510 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4511 the control was given.
4512
4513 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4514
4aee0225
PH
4515PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4516
32d668a5
PH
4517PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4518
8187c3f3
PH
4519PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4520 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4521 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4522 db.h files).
4523
ff790e47 4524PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4525 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4526 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4527 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4528 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4529 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4530 course.
ff790e47 4531
5417f6d1
PH
4532PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4533 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4534 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4535 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4536 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4537 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4538
59cf8544
PH
4539PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4540 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4541 do -d+all out of habit.
4542
e7ad8a65
PH
4543PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4544 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4545 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4546
ade42478
PH
4547PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4548 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4549 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4550 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4551 record types that Exim uses.
4552
182ad5cf
PH
4553PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4554 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4555 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4556 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4557 non-existent file that was broken.
4558
b0d9fc80
TK
4559TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4560 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4561
4562TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4563 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4564 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4565
4566TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4567
47c7a64a
PH
4568PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4569 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4570 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4571 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4572 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4573 same time.
4574
a388bce4
SC
4575SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4576 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4577 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4578 at a slight CPU cost.
4579
4580SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4581 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4582
4583SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4584 by Marc Sherman.
4585
0793e4ed
SC
4586SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4587
c58b88df
PH
4588PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4589 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4590
e7ad8a65 4591
7982096b
PH
4592Exim version 4.51
4593-----------------
4594
1a46a8c5
PH
4595TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4596 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4597
2f079f46 4598TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4599
4600TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4601
4602PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4603 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4604
4605PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4606 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4607 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4608 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4609 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4610 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4611 file.
4612
4613PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4614 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4615 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4616 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4617 these two options.
4618
4619PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4620 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4621 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4622 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4623 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4624 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4625 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4626 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4627
4628PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4629 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4630
4631PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4632 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4633 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4634 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4635 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4636 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4637
4638PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4639 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4640 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4641 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4642
4643PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4644 Finch).
4645
4646PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4647 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4648
49c2d5ea
PH
4649PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4650 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4651 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4652 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4653 message.
49c2d5ea 4654
bf759a8b
PH
4655PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4656
83364d30
PH
4657PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4658 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4659
7999bbd7
PH
4660PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4661 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4662 to what was transported.)
4663
7dbf77c9
PH
4664TF/01 Added $received_time.
4665
74e0617f
PH
4666PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4667 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4668 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4669 spamd_address settings.
4670
2f079f46
PH
4671PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4672 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4673 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4674 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4675 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4676
8c841523
PH
4677PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4678
7766a4f0
PH
4679PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4680 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4681 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4682 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4683 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4684
8b417f2c
PH
4685PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4686 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4687
901f42cb
PH
4688PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4689 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4690 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4691 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4692 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4693 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4694 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4695 for failure.
4696
f9b9210e
PH
4697PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4698 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4699 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4700 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4701 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4702 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4703 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4704 "input=".
4705
54cdb463
PH
4706PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4707
cf00dad6
PH
4708PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4709 driver and ACL definitions.
4710
acb1b346
PH
4711PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4712 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4713
c5ddb310
PH
4714PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4715 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4716 understands it better than I do:
4717
4718 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4719 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4720
4721 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4722 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4723 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4724 => three warnings about OTP not working
4725 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4726
4727 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4728 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4729 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4730 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4731 for each call.)
4732 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4733 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4734
4735 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4736 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4737 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4738
31619da6
PH
4739PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4740 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4741 specified.
4742
bebaf0fc
PH
4743PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4744 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4745 "Linux".
4746
475fe28a
PH
4747PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4748 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4749 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4750
4751 warn !verify = sender
4752 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4753
4754 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4755 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4756
7e8bec7a
PH
4757PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4758
4759 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4760 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4761
4762 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4763 nomenclature these days.)
4764
e4a89c47
PH
4765PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4766 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4767
5ca2a9a1
PH
4768PH/30 In these circumstances:
4769 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4770 . First host does not offer TLS;
4771 . First host accepts first address;
4772 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4773 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4774 . Second host accepts second address.
4775 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4776 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4777 address.
7e8bec7a 4778
c688b954
PH
4779PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4780 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4781 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4782 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4783 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4784
fed77020
PH
4785PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4786 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4787
7fe1560f
PH
4788PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4789 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4790
ebb6e6d5
PH
4791PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4792 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4793 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4794
9c4e8f60
PH
4795PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4796 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4797 overlooked.
4798
4799PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4800
d7174846
PH
4801PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4802 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4803 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4804 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4805 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4806 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4807 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4808
4809 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4810 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4811 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4812 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4813 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4814
4815 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4816 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4817 routed further.
4818
cfe75fc3
PH
4819PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4820 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4821 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4822 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4823 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4824 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4825
be22d70e
PH
4826PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4827
0612b098
PH
4828PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4829 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4830 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4831 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4832 printable escape sequences.
4833
2e0c1448
PH
4834PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4835 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4836 body only.
4837
447d236c
PH
4838PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4839 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4840 are as follows:
4841
4842 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4843 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4844 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4845 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4846 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4847
4848 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4849 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4850 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4851
d20976dc
PH
4852PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4853
f656d135
PH
4854PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4855 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4856 play with."
4857
2e2a30b4
PH
4858PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4859 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4860 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4861 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4862 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4863 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4864 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4865 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4866 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4867 the log output.
4868
9176e9f0
PH
4869PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4870 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4871 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4872 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4873 "make".
4874
7982096b 4875
bbe902f0
PH
4876A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4877----------------------------------------
4878
4879Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4880changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4881needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4882in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4883that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4884release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4885from 4.43.
4886
4887I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
48884.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4889those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4890historical information.
4891
4892
f7b63901 4893Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4894-----------------
4895
5fe762f6
PH
4896 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4897
139059f6 4898 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4899 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4900
7086e875
PH
4901 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4902 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4903 place.
4904
35af9f61
PH
4905 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4906 filter fails to execute.
4907
b668c215
PH
4908 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4909 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4910 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4911 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4912 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4913
a494b1e1
PH
4914 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4915
4916 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4917 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4918 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4919 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4920
c5fcb476
PH
4921 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4922 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4923 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4924 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4925 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4926
69358f02
PH
4927 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4928
5be20824
PH
492910. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4930
eb2c0248
PH
493111. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4932 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4933 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4934 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4935
2a3eea10
PH
493612. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4937 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4938 sender verification.
4939
494013. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4941 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4942
23c7ff99
PH
494314. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4944
4deaf07d
PH
494515. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4946 connection timeout.
4947
926e1192
PH
494816. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4949 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4950
650edc6f
PH
495117. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4952 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4953
2c7db3f5
PH
495418. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4955 information about exactly what failed.
4956
3d235903
PH
495719. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4958
7c7ad977
PH
495920. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4960 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4961 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4962
981756db
PH
496321. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4964 It is now set to "smtps".
4965
d4eb88df
PH
496622. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4967 ignore_target_hosts.
4968
496923. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4970 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4971 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4972 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4973 "[x.x.x.x]".
4974
7d468ab8
PH
497524. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4976 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4977 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4978
497925. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4980 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4981 wake it up if nothing else does.
4982
62c0818f
PH
498326. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4984 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4985 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4986 end up negative.
4987
26034054
PH
498827. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4989 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4990
af66f652
PH
499128. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4992
90af77f4
PH
499329. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4994 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4995 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4996 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4997 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4998 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4999 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5000 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5001
d8ef3577
PH
500230. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5003 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5004 than one IP address.
5005
5cb8cbc6
PH
500631. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5007 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5008 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5009 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5010
14702f5b
PH
501132. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5012 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5013 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5014 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5015 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5016 1024 to 2048 bytes.
5017
063b1e99
PH
501833. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5019 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5020 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5021 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5022
652e1b65
PH
502334. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5024 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5025 respected.
5026
6f0c9a4f
PH
502735. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5028 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5029 $sender_host_address.
5030
33397d19
PH
503136. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5032 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5033 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5034 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5035 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5036 very small.
5037
7bb56e1f
PH
503837. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5039
5040 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5041 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5042
ea3bc19b
PH
5043 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5044 just the host names, not the priorities.
5045
5046 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
5047 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5048 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 5049
ea3bc19b 5050 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 5051 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 5052
0bcb2a0e
PH
505338. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5054 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5055 domain.
5056
2ac0e484
PH
505739. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5058
4e1fde53
PH
505940. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5060 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5061
de365ded
PH
506241. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5063 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5064 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5065
f05da2e8
PH
506642. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5067
d6453af2
PH
506843. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5069
f7b63901
PH
507044. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5071
507245. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5073 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5074 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5075 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5076 because the tests only now provoked it.
5077
a444213a
PH
507846. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5079 (this can affect the format of dates).
5080
0ec020ea
PH
508147. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5082 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5083 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5084 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5085
b1206957
PH
508648. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5087
508849. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5089 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5090 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5091 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5092
26dd5a95
PH
509350. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5094 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5095 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5096
343b2385
PH
509751. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5098 autoreply.
5099
1c5466b9
PH
510052. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5101 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5102 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5103 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5104 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5105 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5106 is going on).
5107
55ee9ee3
PH
510853. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5109 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5110 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5111 the line.
5112
d38f8232
PH
511354. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5114 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5115 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5116
5117 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5118 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5119 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5120 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5121 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5122 so I produce this patch..."
5123
3295e65b
PH
5124 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5125 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5126 is not defined.
5127
7102e136
PH
512855. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5129 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
5130 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5131 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 5132 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 5133
3ca0ba97
PH
513456. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5135
c2bcbe20
PH
513657. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5137 long debug lines gets shown.
5138
18ce445d
PH
513958. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5140 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5141
1f5b4c3d
PH
514259. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5143
5144 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5145 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5146 of $primary_hostname.
5147
b975ba52
PH
514860. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5149 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5150 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5151 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
5152 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5153 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5154 by change 4.50/55 above.
5155
5156 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5157 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5158 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5159 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5160 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5161 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 5162 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
5163
516461. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5165 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5166 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 5167 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 5168
17ffcae7
PH
516962. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5170 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5171
d95f9fdb
PH
517263. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5173 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5174 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5175 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5176 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5177
86b8287f
PH
517864. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5179 This has been fixed.
5180
60dc5e56
PH
518165. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5182 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5183 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5184 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5185 the caching.)
5186
533244af
PH
518766. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5188
a5a28604
PH
518967. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5190 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5191 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5192 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5193
7e634d24
PH
519468. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5195 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5196
3e11c26b
PH
519769. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5198 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5199 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5200
6729cf78
PH
520170. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5202 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5203 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5204 message there.
5205
00f00ca5
PH
520671. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5207 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5208 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5209
c9bdd01c
PH
521072. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5211 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5212 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5213 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5214
d43194df
PH
521573. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5216 during host lookups.
5217
fe5b5d0b
PH
521874. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5219 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5220
5221 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5222
76a2d7ba
PH
522375. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5224 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5225 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5226 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5227 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5228 background.
5229
523076. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5231 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5232
04f7d5b9
PH
523377. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5234 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5235 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5236
bc60667e
PH
523778. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5238
bb6e88ff
PH
523979. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5240 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5241 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5242 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5243 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5244 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5245 process earlier.
5246
1e70f85b
PH
524780. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5248 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5249 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5250 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5251 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5252
525381. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5254 tables).
5255
4e01f9d6
PH
525682. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5257
1ee1cef2
PH
525883. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5259 "vacation" handling.
5260
6e2b4ccc
PH
526184. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5262 OS variants using glibc.
5263
8e669ac1
PH
526485. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5265
495ae4b0 5266
bbe902f0
PH
5267----------------------------------------------------
5268See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5269----------------------------------------------------
5270
5271
5272Exim version 4.44
5273-----------------
5274
5275 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5276 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5277 transport
5278
5279 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5280 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5281 place.
5282
5283 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5284 filter fails to execute.
5285
5286 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5287 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5288 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5289 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5290 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5291
5292 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5293 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5294 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5295 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5296
5297 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5298 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5299 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5300 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5301 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5302
5303 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5304
5305 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5306 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5307 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5308 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5309
5310 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5311 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5312 sender verification.
5313
531410. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5315 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5316
531711. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5318 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5319
532012. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5321 ignore_target_hosts.
5322
532313. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5324 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5325 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5326 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5327 "[x.x.x.x]".
5328
532914. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5330 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5331 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5332
533315. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5334 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5335 wake it up if nothing else does.
5336
533716. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5338 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5339 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5340 end up negative.
5341
534217. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5343 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5344
ea3a6f44 534518. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
5346
534719. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5348 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5349 empty pattern.
5350
535120. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5352 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5353 one IP address.
5354
ea3a6f44
NM
535521. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5356 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5357 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5358 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5359 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5360 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 5361
ea3a6f44
NM
536222. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5363 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5364 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
5365
536623. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5367 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5368 $sender_host_address.
5369
537024. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5371
ea3a6f44
NM
537225. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5373 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5374 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
5375
537626. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 5377 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 5378
ea3a6f44
NM
537927. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5380 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 5381
ea3a6f44
NM
538228. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5383 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5384 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5385 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
5386
538729. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5388 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5389 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5390
ea3a6f44
NM
539130. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5392 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5393 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5394 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 5395
ea3a6f44
NM
539631. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5397 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5398 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 5399
ea3a6f44
NM
540031. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5401 autoreply.
bbe902f0 5402
ea3a6f44
NM
540332. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5404 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5405 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5406 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5407 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5408 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5409 is going on).
bbe902f0 5410
ea3a6f44
NM
541133. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5412 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5413 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5414 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
5415 CAN-2005-0021
5416
ea3a6f44
NM
541734. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5418 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5419 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5420 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5421 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5422 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5423 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5424
5425 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5426 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5427 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5428 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5429 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5430 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
5431 CAN-2005-0021
5432
ea3a6f44
NM
543335. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5434 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5435 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5436 CAN-2005-0022
5437
ea3a6f44
NM
543836. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5439 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5440 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5441 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5442 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5443
ea3a6f44
NM
544437. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5445 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5446 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5447 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5448 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5449
ea3a6f44
NM
545038. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5451 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5452 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5453 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5454 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5455
5456
495ae4b0
PH
5457Exim version 4.43
5458-----------------
5459
5460 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5461 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5462 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5463 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5464 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5465 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5466 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5467
5468 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5469 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5470 the delivery.
5471
5472 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5473
5474 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5475
5476 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5477 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5478 to local_scan().
5479
5480 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5481 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5482 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5483 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5484 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5485
5486 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5487 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5488
5489 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5490
5491 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5492
549310. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5494 header_sender only.
5495
549611. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5497 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5498
549912. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5500 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5501 affecting debugging statements).
5502
550313. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5504
550514. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5506 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5507 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5508 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5509 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5510 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5511 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5512 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5513 after the received time, and all would be well.
5514
551515. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5516 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5517 condition in an expansion string.
5518
551916. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5520
552117. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5522 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5523 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5524 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5525 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5526 job under whatever limits there are.
5527
552818. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5529
553019. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5531 space).
5532
553320. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5534 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5535 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5536 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5537 return path is set.
5538
553921. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5540 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5541 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5542 binary data in such strings.
5543
554422. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5545
554623. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5547 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5548 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5549 failure, which is pointless.
5550
555124. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5552
555325. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5554
555526. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5556 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5557 Sender: header lines.
5558
555927. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5560 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5561 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5562
556328. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5564 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5565 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5566 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5567 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5568 happens.
5569
557029. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5571 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5572 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5573 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5574 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5575
557630. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5577 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5578 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5579 1024.
5580
558131. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5582 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5583
558432. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5585 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5586
558733. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5588
558932. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5590
559133. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5592
559334. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5594 syntax error.
5595
559635. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5597
559836. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5599
560037. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5601 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5602 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5603 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5604
560538. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5606 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5607
5608
5609Exim version 4.42
5610-----------------
5611
5612 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5613 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5614 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5615 it was not quoted.
5616 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5617 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5618 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5619 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5620 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5621 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5622
5623 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5624 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5625 verification failure".
5626
5627 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5628 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5629 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5630 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5631
5632 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5633 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5634 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5635 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5636 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5637 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5638 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5639 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5640 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5641 treated as a timeout.
5642
5643 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5644 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5645 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5646 not set for Exim filters).
5647
5648 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5649 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5650 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5651
5652 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5653
5654 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5655 try to make them clearer.
5656
5657 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5658 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5659
5660 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5661
5662 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5663
566410. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5665 only the Cygwin environment.
5666
566711. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5668 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5669 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5670 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5671 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5672
567312. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5674 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5675 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5676 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5677 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5678 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5679 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5680
568113. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5682 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5683
568414. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5685
5686 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5687 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5688 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5689
5690 To: susanne@some.where
5691
5692 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5693 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5694 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5695 of addresses in From: header lines).
5696
5697 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5698 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5699 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5700
5701 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5702 treated as non-personal.
5703
5704 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5705 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5706
570715. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5708
570916. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5710
571117. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5712 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5713 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5714
571518. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5716 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5717
571819. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5719 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5720 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5721 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5722 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5723 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5724
572520. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5726 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5727 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5728 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5729 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5730 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5731 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5732 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5733
5734 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5735
573621. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5737 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5738
573922. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5740 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5741 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5742
574323. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5744 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5745
574624. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5747 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5748 rather than long int.
5749
575025. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5751
575226. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5753
5754
5755Exim version 4.41
5756-----------------
5757
5758 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5759 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5760 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5761 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5762 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5763 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5764
5765
5766Exim version 4.40
5767-----------------
5768
5769 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5770 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5771
5772 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5773 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5774 socklen_t is defined.
5775
5776 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5777 always exist.
5778
5779 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5780 configured.
5781
5782 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5783 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5784 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5785 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5786 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5787
5788 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5789 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5790 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5791 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5792
5793 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5794 of flapping under certain conditions.
5795
5796 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5797 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5798 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5799
5800 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5801
580210. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5803
580411. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5805 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5806 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5807 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5808
580912. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5810 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5811 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5812 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5813 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5814 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5815 preserved with the message after it was received.
5816
581713. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5818 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5819 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5820 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5821 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5822 test suite worked just fine.
5823
582414. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5825 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5826 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5827
582815. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5829 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5830 string.
5831
583216. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5833 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5834 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5835 does not fully solve it.
5836
583717. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5838 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5839 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5840 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5841 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5842
584318. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5844 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5845 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5846
584719. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5848 string, for example:
5849
5850 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5851
5852 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5853 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5854 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5855 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5856 the routers could not see them.
5857
585820. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5859 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5860
586121. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5862 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5863 output).
5864
586522. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5866 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5867 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5868 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5869 that needed quoting.
5870
587123. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5872 was not being matched caselessly.
5873
587424. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5875 backslashes.
5876
587725. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5878 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5879 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5880 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5881 when use_sender is false.
5882
588326. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5884
588527. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5886
588728. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5888
588929. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5890 the configuration file.
5891
589230. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5893 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5894
589531. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5896
589732. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5898 bytes in the message body.
5899
590033. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5901 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5902 delivery.
5903
590434. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5905
590635. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5907
590836. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5909 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5910 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5911 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5912 another IP address.
5913
5914
5915Exim version 4.34
5916-----------------
5917
5918 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5919 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5920
5921 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5922 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5923 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5924 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5925 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5926
5927 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5928 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5929
5930 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5931 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5932 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5933
5934 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5935 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5936 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5937
5938 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5939 for routers.
5940
5941 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5942 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5943 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5944 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5945 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5946 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5947 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5948
5949
5950Exim version 4.33
5951-----------------
5952
5953 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5954 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5955 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5956 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5957 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5958 default (and expected) setting.
5959
5960 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5961 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5962 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5963 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5964
5965 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5966 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5967
5968 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5969 in domain lists.
5970
5971 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5972 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5973 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5974 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5975 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5976 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5977
5978 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5979 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5980 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5981
5982 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5983 part (NOT match_host).
5984
5985 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5986
5987 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5988 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5989 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5990 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5991 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5992 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5993 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5994 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5995 the same named file.
5996
599710. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5998 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5999 when Exim is built.
6000
600111. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6002 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6003 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6004 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6005 a host name.
6006
600712. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6008 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6009 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6010
601113. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6012
601314. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6014
601515. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6016
601716. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6018 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6019
602017. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6021 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6022 before starting the TLS session.
6023
602418. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6025
602619. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6027 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6028
602920. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6030 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6031 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6032 colon in the middle).
6033
6034
6035Exim version 4.32
6036-----------------
6037
6038 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6039 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6040 multiple configurations are in use.
6041
6042 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6043 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6044 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6045 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6046 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6047 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6048
6049 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6050 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6051
6052 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6053 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6054 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6055
6056 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6057 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6058 occurs.
6059
6060 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6061 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6062
6063 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6064
6065 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6066 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6067
6068 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6069
6070 -prval:sval
6071
6072 is equivalent to
6073
6074 -oMr rval -oMs sval
6075
6076 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6077 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6078 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6079 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6080 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6081
608210. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6083 Exim's behaviour:
6084
6085 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6086 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6087 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6088 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6089 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6090 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6091
6092 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6093 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6094 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6095 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6096 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6097 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6098 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6099 string.
6100
6101 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6102 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6103 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6104 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6105 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6106
610711. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6108
610912. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6110 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6111 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6112
611313. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6114
611514. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6116 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6117 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6118 information.
6119
612015. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6121 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6122
612316. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6124 Three changes have been made:
6125
6126 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6127 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6128 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6129 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6130 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6131
6132 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6133 been restored.
6134
6135 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6136 the modified behaviour.
6137
6138
6139Exim version 4.31
6140-----------------
6141
6142 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6143 Larry Rosenman.
6144
6145 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6146 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6147
6148 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6149 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6150 try to track down a specific problem.
6151
6152 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6153 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6154 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6155
6156 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6157 warning.
6158
6159 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6160 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6161 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6162 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6163 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6164 some earlier ones do not.
6165
6166 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6167
6168 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6169 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6170 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6171 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6172 address literals are enabled, of course).
6173
6174 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6175
617610. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6177 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6178 by a command such as
6179
6180 exim -f "" ...
6181
6182 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6183
618411. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6185
618612. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6187 remained set. It is now erased.
6188
618913. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6190 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6191
619214. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6193 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6194 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6195 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6196 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6197 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6198 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6199 appropriate error code.
6200
620115. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6202 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6203 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6204 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6205 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6206 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6207
620816. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6209 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6210 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6211
621217. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6213 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6214 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6215 terminate the header.
6216
621718. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6218 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6219 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6220
622119. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6222 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6223 (4.30/29). In particular:
6224
6225 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6226 imposed.
6227
6228 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6229 to write a maildirsize file.
6230
6231 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6232 the transport, the new value overrides.
6233
6234 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6235 count.
6236
623720. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6238 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6239 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6240 space or a tab.
6241
624221. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6243 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6244 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6245 the fallback hosts.
6246
624722. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6248 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6249 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6250
625123. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6252 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6253 using a union.
6254
625524. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6256 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6257 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6258
625925. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6260
626126. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6262
626327. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6264
626528. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6266 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6267 become corrupted.
6268
626929. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6270 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6271 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6272 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6273 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6274 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6275 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6276 too great.
6277
627830. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6279 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6280 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6281 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6282 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6283 incorrectly.
6284
628531. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6286 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6287 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6288 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6289 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6290 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6291 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6292 cached value only when the same options are set.
6293
629432. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6295
629633. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6297 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6298 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6299 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6300 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6301
630234: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6303 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6304 it is clearly obsolete.
6305
630635. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6307 transport.
6308
630936. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6310 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6311 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6312 times.
6313
631437. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6315 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6316 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6317 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6318 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6319
632038. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6321 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6322 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6323 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6324
632539. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6326
6327 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6328
6329 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6330 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6331 2^31.
6332
633340. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6334 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6335 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6336 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6337 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6338 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6339 $localpart_data.
6340
634141. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6342 with the -f command-line option.
6343
634442. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6345 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6346 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6347 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6348 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6349 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6350
635143. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6352 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6353 line.
6354
635544. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6356 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6357 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6358 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6359 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6360 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6361 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6362 buffer is too small.
6363
636445. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6365 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6366
636746. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6368 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6369 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6370 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6371 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6372 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6373 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6374 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6375 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6376
637747. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6378 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6379 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6380
638148. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6382 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6383 ACL").
6384
638549. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6386 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6387 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6388 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6389 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6390
639150. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6392 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6393 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6394 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6395 is set.
6396
639751. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6398
639952. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6400
640153. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6402 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6403
640454. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6405 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6406 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6407
640855. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6409 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6410 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6411 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6412 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6413
641456. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6415 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6416 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6417 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6418 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6419 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6420 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6421
642257. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6423 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6424 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6425 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6426 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6427 the test of how many are available.
6428
642958. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6430 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6431 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 6432 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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6433 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6434 new message is started.
6435
643659. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6437 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6438
643960. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6440 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6441
644261. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6443 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6444 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6445 is no long logged.
6446
644762. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6448 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6449 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6450 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6451 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6452 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6453 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6454
645563. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6456 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6457 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6458 interpreted as octal.
6459
646064. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6461 setting.
6462
646365. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6464 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6465 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6466 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6467 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6468 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6469
647066. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6471 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6472 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6473 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6474
6475 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6476 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6477 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6478 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6479
6480 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6481 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6482 is a bug fix.
6483
6484 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6485 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6486
648767. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6488
648968. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6490 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6491 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6492 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6493
649469. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6495 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6496 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6497 supplied", which is not helpful.
6498
649970. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6500 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6501 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6502
650371. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6504 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6505 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6506 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6507 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6508 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6509 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6510 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6511
651272. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6513 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6514 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6515 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6516 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6517
651873. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6519 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6520 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6521 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6522 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6523 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6524
652574. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6526 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6527 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6528
652975. Added write_rejectlog option.
6530
653176. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6532 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6533 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6534 variables.
6535
653677. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6537
653878. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6539 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6540 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6541 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6542 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6543 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6544 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6545 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6546
654779. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6548 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6549 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6550 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6551 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6552
655380. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6554 Haardt.
6555
655681. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6557 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6558 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6559 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6560 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6561 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6562 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6563 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6564 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6565
6566
6567Exim version 4.30
6568-----------------
6569
6570 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6571 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6572 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6573
6574 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6575 fixed.
6576
6577 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6578 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6579 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6580
6581 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6582 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6583 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6584 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6585 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6586 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6587
6588 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6589 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6590 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6591 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6592 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6593 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6594 the Exim test suite.
6595
6596 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6597 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6598 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6599 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6600
6601 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6602 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6603 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6604 specify it in this variable.
6605
6606 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6607 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6608 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6609 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6610
6611 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6612 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6613 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6614 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6615
6616 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6617 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6618 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6619 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6620 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6621
6622 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6623
662410. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6625 they are logged.
6626
662711. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6628 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6629 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6630 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6631 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6632
663312. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6634 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6635
663613. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6637 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6638 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6639 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6640 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6641
664214. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6643 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6644
664515. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6646 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6647 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6648
664916. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6650 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6651
665217. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6653 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6654
665518. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6656 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6657 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6658
665919. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6660 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6661
666220. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6663 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6664 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6665 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6666
666721. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6668
666922. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6670 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6671 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6672 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6673
667423. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6675
667624. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6677 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6678
667925. Added .include_if_exists.
6680
668126. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6682 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6683 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6684 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6685 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6686 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6687
668827. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6689
669028. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6691 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6692 this.
6693
669429. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6695
669630. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6697 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6698
6699 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6700 550 Sender verify failed
6701
6702 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6703 the final line of the response.
6704
670531. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6706 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6707 all other user lookups.
6708
670932. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6710 delivery time.
6711
671233. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6713 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6714 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6715 result into an int without checking.
6716
671734. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6718 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6719 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6720
672135. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6722 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6723 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6724 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6725
672636. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6727 correctly.
6728
672937. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6730 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6731
673238. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6733 to the empty sender.
6734
673539. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6736 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6737 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6738 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6739 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6740 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6741 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6742 panic log.
6743
674440. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6745 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6746 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6747 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6748 used.
6749
675041. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6751 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6752
675342. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6754 timestamps.
6755
675643. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6757 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6758
675944. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6760
676145. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6762 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6763 logs.
6764
676546. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6766 as soon as it is encountered.
6767
676847. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6769
677048. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6771 rewritten to "<>".
6772
677349. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6774 recognizes a tab character.
6775
677650. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6777 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6778 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6779 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6780
678151. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6782
678352. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6784 crash.
6785
678653. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6787
678854. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6789
679055. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6791 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6792 2822.
6793
679456. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6795 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6796 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6797 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6798 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6799
680057. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6801 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6802
680358. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6804 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6805 list (.included file names were always shown).
6806
680759. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6808 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6809 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6810 root at that time.
6811
681260. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6813 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6814
681561. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6816
681762. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6818
681963. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6820
682164. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6822 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6823 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6824 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6825 failures to open the logs.
6826
682765. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6828 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6829 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6830 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6831 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6832 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6833 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6834
6835
6836Exim version 4.24
6837-----------------
6838
6839 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6840 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6841 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6842 change 4.23/1.
6843
6844 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6845 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6846 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6847
6848 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6849 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6850 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6851
6852 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6853 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6854 causing some misleading effects.
6855
6856 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6857 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6858 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6859
6860 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6861 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6862 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6863 queue-runner function directly.
6864
6865
6866Exim version 4.23
6867-----------------
6868
6869 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6870 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6871
6872 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6873 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6874 was always written to the default place.
6875
6876 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6877 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6878 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6879
6880 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6881
6882 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6883
6884 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6885 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6886 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6887
6888 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6889 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6890 must start.
6891
6892 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6893 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6894 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6895
6896 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6897 command line option is disabled.
6898
6899 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6900 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6901
6902 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6903
6904 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6905
6906 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6907 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6908
690910. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6910
691111. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6912 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6913 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6914 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6915 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6916 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6917
691812. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6919 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6920 timeout.
6921
692213. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6923 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6924
692514. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6926 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6927
692815. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6929 received was valid base64.
6930
693116. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6932 name of the variable that was being set.
6933
693417. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6935
693618. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6937 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6938 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6939 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6940 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6941 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6942
694319. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6944
694520. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6946 nor realm was specified.
6947
694821. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6949 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6950 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6951 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6952
695322. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6954 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6955 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6956
695723. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6958 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6959 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6960
696124. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6962 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6963 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6964 some systems use these upper case variants.
6965
696625. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6967 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6968 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6969 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6970
697126. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6972
697327. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6974 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6975
697628. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6977 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6978 expansion variable.
6979
698029. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6981
698230. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6983 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6984 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6985 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6986
698731. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6988 using it.
6989
699032. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6991 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6992 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6993
699433. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6995 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6996
699734. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6998 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6999 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7000 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7001
700235. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7003 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7004 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7005
700636. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7007
700837. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7009 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7010 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7011 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7012 aborted.
7013
701438. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7015 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7016 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7017
701839. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7019
702040. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7021 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7022
702341. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7024 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7025
702642. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7027 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7028 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7029 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7030 when emails are that large.
7031
7032
7033
7034Exim version 4.22
7035-----------------
7036
7037 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7038 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7039
7040 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7041 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7042 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7043
7044 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7045 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7046 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7047
7048 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7049 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7050 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7051 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7052 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7053
7054 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7055 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7056 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7057 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7058 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7059 ever.
7060
7061 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7062 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7063 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7064 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7065 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7066 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7067 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7068 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7069 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7070 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7071 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7072 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7073 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7074 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7075
7076 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7077 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7078 parameterised it.
7079
7080 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7081 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7082 error should be diagnosed.
7083
7084 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7085 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7086 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7087 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7088 appeared instead of "NULL".
7089
709010. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7091 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7092 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7093 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7094 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7095 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7096 proceeds).
7097
7098 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7099 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7100 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7101
7102
7103Exim version 4.21
7104-----------------
7105
7106 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7107 or receiver verification errors.
7108
7109 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7110 name.
7111
7112 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7113 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7114 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7115 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7116
7117 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7118 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7119 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7120 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7121 shouldn't happen again.
7122
7123 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7124 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7125 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7126
7127 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7128 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7129
7130 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7131
7132 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7133 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7134
7135 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7136 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7137 RFC.
7138
713910. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7140 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7141 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7142
714311. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7144 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7145 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7146 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7147
714812. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7149 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7150 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7151 to define what should happen).
7152
715313. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7154 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7155 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7156
715714. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7158
715915. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7160
716116. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7162 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7163
4c04137d 716417. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
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7165 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7166 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7167 structure in all cases.
7168
7169 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7170 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7171 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7172 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7173
717418. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7175 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7176 domain name.
7177
717819. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7179 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7180
718120. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7182 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7183
718421. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7185 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7186 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7187
718822. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7189 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7190 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7191
719223. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7193 the book and for uniformity.
7194
719524. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7196
719725. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 7198 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
495ae4b0
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7199 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7200 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7201 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7202 non-existent command as the problem.
7203
720426. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7205 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7206 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7207
720827. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7209
721028. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7211 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7212 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7213
721429. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7215 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7216 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7217 timestamps using strftime().
7218
721930. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7220 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7221
722232. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7223 transport-time rewrites.
7224
722533. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7226 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7227 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7228 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7229
723034. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7231 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7232
723335. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7234 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7235 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7236 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7237 comma and a space.
7238
723936. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7240 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7241 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7242 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7243 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7244 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7245 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7246
724737. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7248 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7249 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7250 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7251 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7252
725338. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7254 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7255 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7256 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7257 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7258 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7259 remaining text gets split now.
7260
726139. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7262 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7263 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7264 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7265
726640. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7267 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7268 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7269 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7270 $return_path.
7271
727241. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7273 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7274 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7275 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7276 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7277 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7278 passed through if needed.
7279
728042. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7281 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7282 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7283 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7284 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7285 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7286
728743. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7288 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7289 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7290 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7291 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7292
729344. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7294 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7295 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7296 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7297 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7298
729945. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7300 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7301 noticed.
7302
730346. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7304 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7305 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7306 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7307 mayhem of various kinds.
7308
730947. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7310 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 7311 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
495ae4b0
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7312 the right test for positive values.
7313
731448. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7315 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7316 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7317 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7318 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7319 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7320 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7321 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7322 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7323 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7324 envelope.
7325
732649. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7327 module.
7328
732950. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7330 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7331 forbidding it.
7332
733351. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7334 the existing equality matching.
7335
733652. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7337 dealing with inode numbers.
7338
733953. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7340 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7341 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7342
734354. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7344 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7345 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7346 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7347 local_scan().
7348
734955. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7350 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7351 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7352 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7353 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7354 relay addresses has also been removed.
7355
735656. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7357
735857. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7359 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7360 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7361
736258. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7363 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7364 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7365 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7366 processing applies to CR:
7367
7368 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7369 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7370
7371 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7372 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7373 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7374 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7375
737659. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7377 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7378 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7379
738060. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7381 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7382 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7383 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7384 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7385 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7386 arisen.
7387
738861. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7389 program routers.
7390
739162. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7392 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7393 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7394 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7395 adds:
7396
7397 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7398
7399 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7400
7401 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7402
740363. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7404 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7405 not considered personal.
7406
740764. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7408
740965. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7410
741166. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7412
741367. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7414 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7415 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7416 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7417 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7418 header lines, and spool format errors.
7419
742068. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7421 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7422 for more flexibility.
7423
742469. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7425 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7426 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7427
742870. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7429 Sabourenkov.
7430
743171. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7432 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7433 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7434 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7435 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7436 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7437 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7438 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7439 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7440
744172. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7442 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7443 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7444 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7445 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7446 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7447 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7448
744973. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7450 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7451 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7452
745374. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7454 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7455 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7456 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7457 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7458 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7459 instead of killing the process with assert().
7460
746175. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7462 than Unicode encoding.
7463
746476. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7465 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7466 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7467 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7468
746977. Added process_log_path.
7470
747178. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7472 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7473
747479. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7475 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7476
747780. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7478 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7479 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7480
748181. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7482 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7483 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7484 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7485 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7486 were applied:
7487
7488 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7489 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7490 as invalid.
7491
749282. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7493 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7494 they will be used during message reception.
7495
7496
7497Exim version 4.20
7498-----------------
7499
7500The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7501
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