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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 4.92
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10
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11JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
12 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
13
14JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
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15 non-signal-safe functions being used.
16
17JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
18 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
19 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
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21JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
22 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
23 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
24
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25JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
26 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
27 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
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28 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
29 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
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30 messed with.
31
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32PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
33 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
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c39c8870 39GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
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40 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
41 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
42 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
43 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
44 be defined in redis_servers.
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46GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
47 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
48
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49JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
50 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
51 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
52 extant use locations.
53
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54JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
55 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
56
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57JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
58 Previously only the last row was returned.
59
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60JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
61 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
62 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
63 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
64 input.
65
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66JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
67 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
68 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
69 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
70 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
71 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
72 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
73 Main pool for expansions.
74 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
75 active in the testsuite.
76 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
77
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78JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
79 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
80 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
81 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
82 round-robin DNS.
83
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84JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
85 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
86 failure response.
87
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88JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
89 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
90 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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91
92JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
93 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
94 ClamAV interface method is removed.
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96JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
97 rows affected is given instead).
98
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99JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
100 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
101
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102JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
103 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
104 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
105 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
106 for all multi-message initiating connections.
107
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108JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
109 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
110 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
111
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112JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
113 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
114 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
115 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
116 separate.
117
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118JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
119 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
120 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
121 fake-reject.
122
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123HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
124
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125JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
126 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
127
aab9a843 128PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 129 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 130 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 131
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132JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
133 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
134 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
135 and send a quit.
136
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137JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
138 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
139
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140JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
141 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
142 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
143
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144JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
145 for the build is renamed.
146
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147JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
148 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
149 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
150
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151JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
152 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
153 result replacing the original.
154
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155JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
156 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
157 and the resources needed to be freed.
158
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159JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
160
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161JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
162 was not propagated.
163
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164JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
165 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
166 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
167 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
168
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169JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
170 length value. Previously this would segfault.
171
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172HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
173 newer versions of the scanner.
174
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175JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
176 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
177 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
178 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
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179 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
180 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
181 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
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183JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
184 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
185 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
186 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
187 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
188 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
189 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
190 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
191 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
192 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
193
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194JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
195 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
196
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197JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
198
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199HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
200 allows proper process termination in container environments.
201
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202JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
203 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
204
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205JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
206 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
207 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
208
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209JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
210 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
211 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
5add7dc4 212 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
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214JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
215 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
216 would be spooled.
217
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218PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
219 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
220
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221HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
222 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
223 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
224 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
225 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
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227JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
228 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
229 lines.
230
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231JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
232 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
233
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234PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
235 suffix list.
236
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237JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
238 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
239 "bare" representation.
240
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241JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
242 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
243 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
244 corrupted the output.
245
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249
250JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
251 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
252 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
253 pairs of long lines into single ones.
254
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255PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
256 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
257
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258JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
259 This permits better logging.
260
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261JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
262 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
263 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
264 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
265 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 266 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
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268JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
269 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
270 "exiwhat" output.
271
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272PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
273 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
274 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
275
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276JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
277 than 255 are no longer allowed.
278
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279JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
280 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
281 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
282 client, there is no benefit for these.
283 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
284 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
285 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
286 is used (3.2.4 +).
287
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288PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
289 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
290
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291JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
292 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
293 erroneously found still-pending ones.
294
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295JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
296 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
297
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298JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
299 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
300 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
301 signature and again for transmission.
302
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303JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
304 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 305 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
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307JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
308 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
309 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
310 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
311 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
312 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
313 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
314
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315JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
316 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
317 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 318 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
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320PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
321 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
322 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
323 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
324 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
325 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
326 processing options.
327
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328JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
329 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
330 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
331 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
332 connections.
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334PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
335 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
336 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
337 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
338 versions.
339
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340JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
341 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
342 inaccessible.
343
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344JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
345 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
346 banner-time rejection.
347
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348JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
349 callout/hold.
350
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351PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
352 is the name of a transport.
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353 Fixes bug 2140.
354
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355HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
356
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357JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
358 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
359
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360JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
361 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
362 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
363 during compilation.
364
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365JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
366 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
367 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 368 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
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370JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
371 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
372 initial verify call returned a defer.
373
ad1a76fe 374JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
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375 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
376
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377JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
378 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
379
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380JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
381 if present. Previously it was ignored.
382
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383JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
384 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
385
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386JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
387 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
388 extensible.
389
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390PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
391 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
392
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393PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
394 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
395 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
396
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397JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
398 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
399 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
400 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
401
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402HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess where chunked
403 and confused the parent.
404
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405JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
406 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
407
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408JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
409 for log purposes.
410
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411JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
412 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
413 out-of-order delivery.
414
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415JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
416 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
417 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
418 error for the HELO.
419
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420JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
421 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
422 desynchronisation.
423
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424JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
425 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
426 one run was done. Bug 2189.
427
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428JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
429 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
430 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
431 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
432 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
433 message is still "Temporary local problem".
434
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435JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
436 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
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437 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
438
439HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
440 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
441 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
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443JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
444 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
445 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
446 though a different problem.
447
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9427e879 452JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 453 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 454
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455JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
456
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457PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
458 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
459
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460JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
461 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
462
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463JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
464 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
465 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
466 before acknowledging the chunk.
467
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468PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
469 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
470 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
471
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472JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
473 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
474 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
475 should.
476
477JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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478 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
479 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
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bd8fbe36 481JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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482 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
483
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484JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
485 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
486 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
487 body hash calculated value.
488
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489JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
490 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
491 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
492
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493JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
494
495JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
496 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
497
498JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
499 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
500 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
501
502JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
503 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
504 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
505 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
506 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
507 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
508
509JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
510 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
511 past that check, despite the cost.
512
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513JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
514 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
515 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
516
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517PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
518 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
519 TLS library to consume.
520
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521PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
522
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523PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
524
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525JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
526 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
527 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
528 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
529 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
530 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
531 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
532
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533PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
534
535PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
536
537PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
538 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
539 should be warning-free.
540
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541JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
542
543HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
544 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
545
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546HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
547 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
548 general solution here.
549
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550PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
551 already-broken messages in the queue.
552
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553JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
554
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555JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
556
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561JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
562 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 563
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564JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
565 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
566 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
567
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568JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
569 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
570 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
571 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
572 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
573 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
574 if one fails this test.
575 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
576 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
577
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578JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
579 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
580
23bb6982 581JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 582 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 583
0bd1b1ed 584JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 585 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 586
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587JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
588 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
589
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590JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
591 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
592
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593JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
594
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595JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
596 certificate).
597
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598JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
599 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
600 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
601 connection after a verify cache hit.
602 Do not update it with the verify result either.
603
604JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
605 when routing results in more than one destination address.
606
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607JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
608 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
609 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
610 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
611 when the cutthrough connection is made).
612
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613JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
614 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
615
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616JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
617 Previously they were not counted.
618
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619JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
620 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
621 that needed the lookup.
622
4c04137d 623JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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624 distinguished as "(=".
625
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626JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
627 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
628
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629JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
630
631JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
632 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 633
4c04137d 634JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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635 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
636
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637JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
638 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
639 compatible.
640
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641JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
642 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
643 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
644 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
645
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646JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
647
f59aaaaa 648JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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649 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
650 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
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652JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
653 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
654 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
655 be lost.
656
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657JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
658 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
659 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
660 itself :(
661
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662JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
663 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
664 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
665
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666JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
667 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
668 options.
669
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670JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
671
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672PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
673 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
674
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675PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
676 are not in the system include path.
677
ad7fc6eb 678JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 679 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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680 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
681 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
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683JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
684 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
685 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
686
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687JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
688
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689HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
690 an incoming connection.
691
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692HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
693 to rspamd.
694
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695HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
696 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 697
87cb4a16 698JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 699 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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701
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705JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
706 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
707 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
708 client dropping the TLS connection.
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710TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
711 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
712
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713TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
714 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
715 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
716 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
717 outgoing I= field.
718
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719JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
720 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
721 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
722 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
723 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
724 check on the next write.
725
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726HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
727 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
728 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
729 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
730 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
731
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732JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
733 mime_regex ACL conditions.
734
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735JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
736 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
737 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
738
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739JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
740 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
741 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
742 an authenticate fail is not an error.
743
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744HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
745 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
746
4c04137d 747JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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748 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
749
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750JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
751 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
752 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
753 distinct.
754
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755JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
756
757JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
758
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759JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
760
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761JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
762 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
763
98b98887 764JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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765 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
766
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767JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
768
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769JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
770 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
771
772JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
773
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774JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
775 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
776
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777JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
778
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779JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
780 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 781 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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782 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
783 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
784 they will retry in-clear.
785 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
786 at installation time.
787
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788HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
789 with the $config_file variable.
790
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791JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
792 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
793 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
794 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 795 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 796
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797GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
798 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
799 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
800 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
801 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
802
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803JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
804
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805JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
806 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
807 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
808 list order is no longer honoured.
809
4c04137d 810JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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812
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813JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
814 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
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816JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
817 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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818 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
819 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
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821JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
822 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
823
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824JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
825 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
826
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827JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
828 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
829
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830JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
831
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832JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
833 cached by the daemon.
834
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835JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
836 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
837
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838JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
839 keys are given for lookup.
840
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841JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
842 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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843 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
844 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
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846JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
847 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
848 server-side so match that on older versions.
849
07c73177 850JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 851 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 852 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 853
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854JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
855 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
856
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857JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
858 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
859 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 860 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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861 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
862 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
863 initial truncated version.
864
ab9152ff 865JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 866
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867JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
868
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869JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
870 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
871
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872JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
873
bc3c7bb7 874HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 875
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876JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
877 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
878 induced overflows.
879
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880JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
881 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
882 stage.
883
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884JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
885 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
886
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887JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
888 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
889 former class.
890
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891JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
892 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
893 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
894
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895JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
896 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
897 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
898 extraction. Accept either.
899
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904JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
905 expanded.
906
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907JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
908
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909JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
910 it.
911
01a4a5c5 912JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 913 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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914 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
915 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
916
cb1d7830 917JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 918 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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920
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922 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
923 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
924 TLS connections
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926JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
927 sites use this now.
928
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929JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
930 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
931 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
932 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
933 have a dsn_lasthop option.
934
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935JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
936 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 937 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 938
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939JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
940
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941JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
942 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
943
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944JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
945 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
946
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947JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
948 /defer_ok option.
949
c5f280e2
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950JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
951 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
952
fd4d8871 953JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 954 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
fd4d8871
R
955 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
956
957JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
2aad5761
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958 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
959 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 960
23763898
JH
961JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
962 timeout value per server.
963
2ad78978
JH
964JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
965 now have the list separator specified.
966
8a512ed5 967JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 968 option values.
8a512ed5 969
82c0c8ea 970JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
f69979cf
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971 under OpenSSL.
972
cc00f4af
JH
973JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
974
82c0c8ea
JH
975JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
976 rather than the verbs used.
977
b980ed83
JH
978JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
979 from 255 to 1024 chars.
980
6c9ed72e
JH
981JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
982
cfab9d68 983HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 984 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 985
f846c8f5
JH
986JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
987 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
988
fd4c285c
HSHR
989HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
990 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
991
4c04137d 992JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 993
d2a2c69b
JH
994JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
995
8241d8dd
JH
996JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
997 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 998 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
8241d8dd
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999 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1000
1f12df4d
JH
1001JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1002
1f155f8e
JH
1003JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1004 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1005
1705dd20
JH
1006JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1007 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1008
038597d2
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1009JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1010
474f71bf
JH
1011JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1012
7137ca4b
JH
1013JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1014
dcb1095c
JH
1015JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1016 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1017
2f460950
JH
1018JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1019 added for tls authenticator.
1020
2f680c0c
HSHR
1021HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1022
9c695f6d 1023
e449c3b0
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1024Exim version 4.85
1025-----------------
4c57a40e 1026
e449c3b0
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1027TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1028 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1029 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1030 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1031 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1032 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1033 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1034
ac20058f
TL
1035TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1036 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1037 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1038 function when detected.
1039
a9b8ec8b
JH
1040JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1041 cause callback expansion.
1042
6286d7c4
TL
1043TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1044 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1045 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1046 instead of bool when processing it.
1047
0f06b4f2 1048JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
d567a64d
JH
1049 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1050
be36e572
JH
1051JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1052
ac4ef9bd
JH
1053JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1054
0eb51736
TL
1055TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1056
c713ca4b
TL
1057TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1058 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
e449c3b0 1059
bd21a787
WB
1060JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1061 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1062 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1063 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 1064 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
bd21a787
WB
1065 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1066
8bc732e8
JH
1067JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1068 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1069 exceeded it.
1070
a7fec7a7
JH
1071JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1072 version 3.3.6 or later.
1073
4c04137d 1074JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
774ef2d7
JH
1075 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1076 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 1077 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
723fe533
JH
1078 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1079 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1080 option is defined.
774ef2d7 1081
eca4debb
TL
1082TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1083 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1084
8d692470
JH
1085JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1086 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1087 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1088 matches.
1089
e9477a08
JH
1090JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1091 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1092 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1093
ad4c5ff9
JH
1094JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1095 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
8dea5edf
JH
1096
1097JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1098 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1099 syntax errors.
1100
3394b36a 1101JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
8dea5edf
JH
1102
1103JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1104 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1105
3394b36a
TL
1106TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1107 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1108 tarball.
1109
ad4c5ff9
JH
1110JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1111
4c04137d 1112JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
ad4c5ff9
JH
1113 Bug 1561.
1114
1115JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1116 output list separator was used.
1117
8bc732e8 1118
1f0ebb98
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09728d20
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1121TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1122 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1123 return.
1f0ebb98 1124
a612424f 1125JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 1126 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
a612424f
JH
1127
1128JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1129
1130TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 1131 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 1132
1f0ebb98 1133
c0e56233
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1135-----------------
1136
1137TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1138
1139 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1140 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1141 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1142 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1143 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1144 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1145
7245734e
TF
1146TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1147 utilities have not been installed.
1148
fd5dad68
JH
1149JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1150 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1151
5428a946
TL
1152TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1153 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1154
a3c86431
TL
1155TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1156 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
8ded8589
TL
1157 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1158 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 1159
aa26e137
JH
1160JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1161
5a1b8443
WB
1162TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1163 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1164
72c9e342
PP
1165PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1166 not dns_use_dnssec.
1167
76f44207
WB
1168JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1169
770747fd
MFM
1170TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1171 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1172 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1173
8ddef691 1174TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
982650ec
TL
1175 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1176 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1177 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1178 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1179 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1180
b9c2e32f
AR
1181JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1182
e45a1c37
JH
1183JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1184 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1185
67d81c10
JH
1186JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1187 failed delivery.
1188
b1f8e4f8
JH
1189JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1190
511a6c14 1191JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
JH
1192
1193JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1194 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1195
51c7471d
JH
1196JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1197 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1198
3695be34
TL
1199TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1200
1e06383a
TL
1201JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1202
76146973
JH
1203JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1204 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1205
1206 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1207 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1208 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1209
8c8b8274
TL
1210TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1211 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1212 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1213 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1214
35aba663
JH
1215JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1216
8c51eead 1217JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
578897ea
JH
1218 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1219 lookup).
8c51eead 1220
deae092e
HS
1221TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1222 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1223 Schlichting.
35aba663 1224
fd3b6a4a 1225JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1226 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1227
8d91c6dc
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1228TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1229 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1230
2b4a568d
JH
1231JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1232
d2af03f4
HS
1233TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1234 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1235 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1236
9d1c15ef
JH
1237JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1238 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1239
44662487
JH
1240JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1241 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
6a8a60e0
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1242 hosts_request_ocsp.
1243
ed3bba5f 1244JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1245 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1246 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1247
8ccd00b1
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1248JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1249
8ded8589
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1250TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1251 Christian Aistleitner.
1252
f2de3a33
JH
1253JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1254
6eb02f88
TL
1255TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1256 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1257
00bff6f6
JH
1258JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1259 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1260
071c51f7
JH
1261JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1262 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1263
a6d4c44e
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1264TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1265 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1266
3ae173e7
ACK
1267TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1268 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1269
c13d09b8
TL
1270TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1271 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1272 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1273
0df4ab80
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1274JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1275
66be95e0
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1276PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1277 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1278 Jasper Wallace.
1279
1bd0d12b
JH
1280JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1281
0de7239e
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1282TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1283 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1284 CVE-2014-2972
1285
fd3b6a4a 1286
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1289
1290PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1291
12f69989
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1292PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1293 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1294
54c90be1
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1295PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1296 by GnuTLS.
1297
1f4a55da
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1298PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1299 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1300 routines.
1301
13363eba 1302PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1303
66645890 1304PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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1305 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1306 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1307 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1308 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1309
a3fb9793 1310PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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1311 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1312 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1313 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1314 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1315 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1316
d27f98fe 1317TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1318
6822b909
TL
1319TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1320
e7568d51
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1321TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1322 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1323
ae0e32ee 1324TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1325 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1326 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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1327
1328TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1329
e2658fff
TL
1330TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1331
83712b39
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1332TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1333 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1334
976b7e9f
JH
1335JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1336
be4a1376
JH
1337JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1338
ec4b68e5
PP
1339PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1340
d7148a07
NM
1341NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1342 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1343
585121e2 1344JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1345
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TL
1346PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1347 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1348 function.
a5f239e4 1349
13d08c90
PP
1350PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1351 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1352
bef3ea7f
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1353JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1354 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1355 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1356
846726c5
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1357JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1358
3a796370
JH
1359JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1360
ea722490 1361JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1362 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1363
b1b05573
JH
1364JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1365 Bugzilla 884.
1366
362145b5
JH
1367JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1368 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1369
3c0a92dc
JH
1370JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1371 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1372
6d7c6175
PP
1373PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1374 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1375 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1376
6f123593
JH
1377JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1378 authenticators.
1379
c8e2fc1e
JH
1380JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1381 for control.
1382
005ac57f
PP
1383PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1384
3f1df0e3
PP
1385PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1386 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1387 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1388 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1389
67bd1ab3
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1390TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1391
1392 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1393 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1394 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1395 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1396 the retry rules.
1397
1398 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1399 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1400 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1401
1402 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1403 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1404 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1405 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1406
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1407 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1408 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1409 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1410 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1411 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1412 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1413 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1414
1415 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1416 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1417
326cdc37
TF
1418TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1419
1420 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1421
1422 Resent-From: f
1423
1424 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1425 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1426 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1427 username as equal to the username.
1428
1429 This change corrects that bug.
1430
f62514b3
GF
1431GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1432 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1433 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1434
eb505532
TF
1435TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1436
14c7b357
PP
1437PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1438 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1439 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1440 NULL dereference and crash.
1441
94eaf700
PP
1442JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1443
6f5a440a
PP
1444PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1445 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1446 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1447
514ee161
SC
1448SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1449
fd98a5c6
JH
1450JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1451 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1452 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1453 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1454 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1455 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1456 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1457 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1458 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1459 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1460 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1461
035c7f1e
PP
1462PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1463 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1464
ff284120
PP
1465PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1466 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1467 Bugzilla 880.
1468
26e72755
PP
1469PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1470 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1471 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1472 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1473 an empty string is now equivalent.
1474
0fbd9bff
PP
1475PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1476 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1477 not performing validation itself.
1478
700d22f3
PP
1479PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1480 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1481
fcc8e047
JH
1482JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1483 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1484
4c04137d 1485TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1486
8c020188
PP
1487PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1488 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1489 other false fix of the same issue.
1490 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1491 Bugzilla 1363.
1492
d13cdd30
PP
1493PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1494 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1495
e2fbf4a2
PP
1496PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1497 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1498 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1499
f4c1088b
PP
1500PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1501 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1502 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1503
c5c2182f
PP
1504TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1505
73431ca9
JH
1506JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1507
2d07a215
TL
1508TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1509 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1510
a30a8861
TL
1511TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1512 Alexander Miroch.
1513
33382dd9
TL
1514TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1515 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1516 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1517 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1518 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1519
046172e6
TL
1520TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1521 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1522
581d7bee 1523TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1524 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1525 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1526
1527TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1528 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1529 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1530 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1531
237b2cf2
TL
1532TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1533
9fc5a352
TL
1534TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1535 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1536 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1537
b10e4ec2
TL
1538TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1539
e2cebd74
TL
1540TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1541 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1542 interaction.
1543
1544TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1545 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1546
2519e60d
TL
1547TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1548 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1549
e78e6ecf 1550
4263f395
PP
1551Exim version 4.80.1
1552-------------------
1553
1554PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1555 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1556 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1557
ea722490 1558
b1770b6e 1559Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1560-----------------
1561
1562PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1563 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1564 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1565
23c7e742
NM
1566NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1567
b322aac8
NM
1568NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1569 improved.
1570
4a891427
NM
1571NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1572
c1e794ba 1573PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1574
97753960
PP
1575PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1576
1577PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1578 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1579
df6303fa
PP
1580PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1581 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1582
7e6a8985
PP
1583PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1584 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1585
f1e05cc7 1586PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1587 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1588 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1589
4c287009
PP
1590PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1591
b98bb9ac
PP
1592PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1593 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1594
4a6a987a
PP
1595PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1596
c45dd180 1597PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1598
7db8d074
PP
1599PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1600 non-compliant senders.
1601 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1602
eae0036b 1603NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1604 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1605 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1606
dec5017e
PP
1607PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1608 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1609 in spool file corruption.
1610
c80c5570
PP
1611PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1612 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1613 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1614 "Got SSL error 2".
1615
076b11e2
PP
1616TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1617 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1618 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1619
5407bfff
JH
1620JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1621 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1622
9e45c72b
PP
1623JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1624
e74376d8
PP
1625PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1626 diagnostics.
1627 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1628
4c04137d 1629PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1630 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1631 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1632
7be682ca
PP
1633PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1634 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1635 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1636 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1637
ef840681
PP
1638PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1639 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1640
5bfb4cdf
PP
1641PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1642 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1643 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1644 resolver implementation change.
1645
c6e95d22
PP
1646PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1647 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1648
9cbad13b
PP
1649PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1650
9ee44efb
PP
1651PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1652
6a6084f8
PP
1653PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1654 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1655
12dd53c7
PP
1656PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1657 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1658
9e45c72b 1659JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1660 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1661
17c76198
PP
1662PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1663 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1664 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1665 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1666 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1667
53947857 1668PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1669
eae0036b 1670PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1671 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1672 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1673
9e45c72b 1674JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1675
7390e768
PP
1676PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1677 read-only, out of scope).
1678 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1679
08488c86
PP
1680PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1681 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1682 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1683 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1684
6475bd82
PP
1685PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1686
81f91683
PP
1687PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1688 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1689 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1690 real issues in debug logging.
1691
5779e6aa
PP
1692PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1693 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1694
3375e053
PP
1695PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1696 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1697 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1698
1699PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1700 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1701 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1702 problems.
3375e053 1703
9d26b8c0
PP
1704PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1705 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1706
57eb9e91 1707PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1708 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1709 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1710 needs to override this, it can.
1711
16880d1a
PP
1712PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1713 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1714 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1715
a799883d
PP
1716PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1717 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1718 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1719 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1720
3ecab157 1721PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1722
0599f9cf 1723
867fcbf5
PP
1724Exim version 4.77
1725-----------------
1726
1727PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1728 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1729
f1a29782
TF
1730TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1731
ab42bd23
TK
1732TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1733 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1734
0ca0cf52
TF
1735TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1736 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1737
921b12ca
TF
1738TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1739 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1740 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1741
1742 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1743 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1744 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1745 not safe for signals.
1746
1747 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1748 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1749 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1750 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1751 exiwhat.
1752
c99ce5c9
TF
1753TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1754
1755 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1756 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1757 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1758 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1759 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1760
1761 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1762 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1763 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1764 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1765 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1766 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1767
1768 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1769 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1770 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1771 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1772
1773 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1774 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1775 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1776 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1777
1778 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1779 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1780 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1781 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1782 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1783 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1784 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1785 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1786 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1787
1788 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1789 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1790 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1791 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1792
1793 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1794 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1795 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1796 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1797 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1798 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1799 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1800 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1801 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1802 details in the main documentation.
1803
3634fc25
TF
1804TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1805
792e8a19
TF
1806TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1807
5901f0ab
TF
1808TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1809 repository when doing development or release builds.
1810
7f2a2a43
PP
1811PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1812 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1813
061b7ebd
PP
1814PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1815 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1816 Bugzilla 97.
1817
e12f8c32
PP
1818PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1819
9e949f00 1820PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1821 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1822
1823PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1824 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1825
555ae6af 1826PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1827 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1828
1829PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1830 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1831
6f7fe114
PP
1832PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1833 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1834
c566dd90
PP
1835PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1836 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1837 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1838 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1839
d6cc7c78 1840PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1841 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1842 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1843
0d0e4455
PP
1844PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1845
3399bb60 1846PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1847
1848PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1849 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1850
0ca0cf52 1851
10906672
PP
1852Exim version 4.76
1853-----------------
1854
1855PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1856
754a0503
PP
1857PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1858 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1859
c0c7b2da
PP
1860PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1861
e97d1f08
PP
1862PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1863
084c1d8c
PP
1864PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1865 Bugzilla 1098.
1866
4e7ee012
PP
1867PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1868 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1869
c8d52a00
PP
1870TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1871 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1872
54e7ce4a
PP
1873PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1874 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1875
5ee6f336
PP
1876PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1877 Bugzilla 1104.
1878
c8d52a00 1879TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1880 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1881
1882TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1883 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1884 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1885 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1886
1887PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1888 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1889
10906672 1890
aa097c4c
NM
1891Exim version 4.75
1892-----------------
1893
4c04137d 1894NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1895 Bugzilla 1073
1896
7f3d9eff
TF
1897TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1898 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1899 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1900
159f52d2
TF
1901TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1902 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1903
0cc9542a
PP
1904PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1905 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1906 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1907
f7274286
PP
1908PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1909 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1910
7b797365
PP
1911PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1912 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1913
caacae52
NM
1914NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1915 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1916
09dcaba9
NM
1917NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1918 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1919
bc19a55b
PP
1920PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1921 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1922
bd4c9759
NM
1923NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1924 Fixes bug 943.
1925
b72aab72
PP
1926PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1927 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1928
2fe76745
PP
1929PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1930 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1931
76aa570c
PP
1932PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1933 SQL string expansion failure details.
1934 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1935
f1e5fef5
PP
1936PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1937 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1938
4d805ee9
PP
1939PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1940 extern declarations in function scope.
1941 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1942
cd59ab18
PP
1943PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1944 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1945 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1946 a kernel bug).
1947
332f5cf3
PP
1948PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1949 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1950
29cfeb94
PP
1951PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1952 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1953
660242ad
PP
1954PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1955 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1956
bc4bc4c5
PP
1957PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1958 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1959
2e64baa9
NM
1960NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1961 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1962 Dennis Davis.
1963
4c04137d 1964PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 1965
6bac1a9a
PP
1966PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1967
552193f0
NM
1968NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1969 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1970
1b587e48
TF
1971TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1972 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1973
aa097c4c 1974
8c07b69f
TF
1975Exim version 4.74
1976-----------------
1977
1978TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1979 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1980
c0ea85ab
TF
1981TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1982 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1983
0761d44e
TF
1984TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1985
0a349494
PP
1986DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1987 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1988 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1989
1990PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1991 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1992 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1993
fea24b2e
PP
1994PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1995 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1996 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1997 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1998
6545de78
PP
1999PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2000 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2001 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2002 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2003
1670ef10
PP
2004PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2005 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2006 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2007 arbitrary files.
2008
c0886197
PP
2009PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2010 (Wolfgang Breyha)
2011
b7487bce
PP
2012PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2013 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2014 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2015 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2016 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2017
8c07b69f 2018
97fd1e48 2019Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 2020-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
2021
2022PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2023 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2024 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2025
6901c596
PP
2026PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2027 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2028
a8c8d6b5
JJ
2029JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2030
77bb000f
PP
2031PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2032
a29e5231
PP
2033PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2034
ec5a0394 2035PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 2036
55c75993
PP
2037PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2038
453a6645 2039PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
2040 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2041 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
2042 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2043
8544e77a
PP
2044PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2045 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2046 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
2047 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2048 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 2049
83e029d5
PP
2050PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2051
ed7f7860
PP
2052PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2053
7d9f747b
PP
2054PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2055
4b2241d2
PP
2056PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2057
10385c15
PP
2058PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2059
dbc4b90d
PP
2060PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2061
532be449
PP
2062PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2063
6a8de854 2064PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
2065 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2066 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 2067
5dc43717
JJ
2068JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2069
2070JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2071 "exim" to be used
55c75993 2072
3346ab01
PP
2073PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2074 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2075
491fab4c
PP
2076PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2077 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2078 Notification from John Horne.
2079
13eb9497
PP
2080PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2081 compatible.
2082
2083PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2084 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2085 it normally works.
2086
7f36d675
DW
2087DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2088 access.
2089
c1d94452
DW
2090DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2091 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2092 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2093
e2f5dc15
DW
2094DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2095 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2096 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2097 configuration file.
2098
cd25e41d
DW
2099DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2100 option (effectively making it always true).
2101
261dc43e
DW
2102DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2103 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2104
fa32850b
DW
2105DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2106 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2107
79d4bc3d
PP
2108PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2109 run-time user, instead of root.
2110
43236f35 2111PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
2112 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2113
fb08281f
DW
2114DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2115 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2116 arguments.
3346ab01 2117
74935b98
DW
2118DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2119 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2120 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2121
90b6341f
DW
2122DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2123
57730b52
ML
2124NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2125
66581d1e 2126
465e92cf
JJ
2127Exim version 4.72
2128-----------------
2129
453a6645
PP
2130JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2131 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2132 typos
465e92cf 2133
453a6645
PP
2134JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2135 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2136 (Finput)
edae0343 2137
9bd3e22c
NM
2138NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2139 Patch from Alain Williams
2140
bb576ff7
NM
2141NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2142
5a1a5845
NM
2143NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2144 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2145
981a9fad
NM
2146NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2147 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2148
7fc497ee
NM
2149NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2150
1a41defa
JJ
2151JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2152
a466095c 2153NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2154 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2155
94a6bd0b
NM
2156TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2157
2158TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2159
2160MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2161 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2162 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2163
c1b141a8
NM
2164NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2165 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2166
b26eacf1 2167NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2168 Patch by Simon Arlott
2169
179c5980 2170PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2171 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2172
9bd3e22c 2173
7c6d71af
NM
2174Exim version 4.71
2175-----------------
2176
7d9f747b 2177TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2178
f013fb92
NM
2179NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2180
0eb8eedd
NM
2181NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2182
663ee6d9
NM
2183NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2184
177ebd9b
NM
2185NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2186
7c6d71af 2187
210f147e
NM
2188Exim version 4.70
2189-----------------
2190
cdd3bb85 2191TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2192 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2193
2194TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2195 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2196 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2197
2198TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2199 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2200 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2201
2202TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2203 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2204
210f147e
NM
2205NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2206 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2207 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2208 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2209
deafd5b3
NM
2210NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2211 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2212 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2213
089793a4
TF
2214TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2215
5f16ca82
TF
2216TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2217
dae9d94e 2218NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2219 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2220
7d9f747b 2221NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2222
06864c44
TF
2223TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2224 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2225 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2226 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2227
65a7d8c3 2228NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2229 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2230
23510047 2231TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2232
7d9f747b 2233NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2234
7d8eec3a 2235NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2236 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2237
89dec7b6
TF
2238TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2239 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2240
a99de90c
TF
2241TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2242 that they are available at delivery time.
2243
e2803e40
TF
2244TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2245
7199e1ee
TF
2246TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2247 incoming_port log selectors.
2248
e276e04b
TF
2249TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2250 setting expands to an empty string.
2251
ce552449 2252NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2253 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2254
e765a0f1 2255NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2256 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2257
4f054c63 2258NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2259 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2260
7d9f747b
PP
2261NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2262 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2263
7d9f747b
PP
2264NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2265 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2266
b52bc06e 2267NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2268 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2269
447de4b0
NM
2270NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2271
4c69d561 2272NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2273 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2274
d5c39246 2275NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2276 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2277
0b23848a
TK
2278TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2279
8f3414a1 2280NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2281 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2282
fb6f955d
NM
2283NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2284
2285NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2286
7d9f747b
PP
2287NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2288 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2289
7d9f747b
PP
2290NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2291 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2292
7d9f747b
PP
2293NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2294 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2295
7d9f747b
PP
2296NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2297 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2298
7d9f747b
PP
2299NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2300 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2301
7d9f747b
PP
2302NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2303 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2304
7d9f747b
PP
2305NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2306 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2307
7d9f747b 2308NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2309 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2310
7d9f747b 2311NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2312
7d9f747b
PP
2313NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2314 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2315
7d9f747b 2316NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2317
7d9f747b 2318NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2319
7d9f747b 2320NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2321
7d9f747b 2322NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2323
17792b53 2324NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2325 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2326
7d9f747b
PP
2327NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2328 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2329
91576cec 2330NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2331 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2332
7d9f747b
PP
2333NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2334 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2335
7d9f747b 2336NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2337
7d9f747b 2338NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2339
7d9f747b 2340NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2341
7d9f747b 2342NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2343
deafd5b3 2344
47db1125
NM
2345Exim version 4.69
2346-----------------
2347
4b3504d0
TK
2348TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2349 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2350 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2351
2352 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2353 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2354 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2355 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2356 build errors in sieve.c.
2357
81ea09ca
NM
2358NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2359 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2360 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2361
f13cddcb
SC
2362SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2363
7d9f747b 2364NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2365
7d9f747b 2366NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2367
7d9f747b 2368NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2369
2370
eb4c0de6
PH
2371Exim version 4.68
2372-----------------
2373
2374PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2375
6a3bceb1
PH
2376PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2377 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2378 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2379 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2380 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2381 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2382 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2383 for iplsearch lookups.
2384
2385 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2386 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2387 previously such lookups could never work.
2388
4c04137d 2389 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2390 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2391 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2392
2e30fa9d
TK
2393TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2394 version.
2395
0806a9c5
MH
2396MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2397 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2398 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2399 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2400 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2401 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2402
ae276964
TK
2403TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2404 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2405
0f2cbd1b
MH
2406MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2407 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2408 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2409 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2410 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2411 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2412
2b85bce7
PH
2413PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2414 local_scan API.
2415
93655c46
PH
2416PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2417
6c512171
PH
2418PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2419 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2420 encrypted.
2421
2422PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2423 by clients under certain conditions.
2424
aa6dc513
PH
2425PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2426 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2427
a96603a0
PH
2428PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2429
8f240103
PH
2430PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2431 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2432
2433PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2434
d677b2f2
PH
2435PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2436
d52120f2
PH
2437PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2438
64f2600a
PH
2439PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2440 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2441
8669f003
PH
2442PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2443
a4dc33a8
PH
2444PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2445 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2446
d6a60c0f
PH
2447PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2448
8f128379
PH
2449PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2450
8932dffe
PH
2451PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2452 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2453 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2454 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2455
ddea74fa 2456PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2457 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2458 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2459
ddea74fa 2460PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2461 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2462
ddea74fa
PH
2463PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2464
ce9f225c
PH
2465PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2466
19897d52
PH
2467PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2468
bc64a74d
PH
2469PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2470 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2471 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2472
eb4c0de6 2473
b4ed4da0
PH
2474Exim version 4.67
2475-----------------
2476
22ad45c9
MH
2477MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2478 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2479 Jan Srzednicki.
2480
b4ed4da0
PH
2481PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2482 issue a MAIL command.
2483
431b7361
PH
2484PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2485
2486 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2487
2488 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2489 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2490 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2491 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2492 item. This has been fixed.
2493
2494PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2495 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2496
83da1223
PH
2497PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2498 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2499
54fc8428
PH
2500PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2501 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2502 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2503
34c5e8dd
SC
2504SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2505
bbe15da8
PH
2506PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2507 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2508 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2509 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2510 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2511
0e8a9471
MH
2512MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2513 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2514 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2515
f0872424
PH
2516PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2517 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2518 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2519 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2520
b01dd148
PH
2521PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2522
6bf342e1
PH
2523PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2524
273f34d0
PH
2525PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2526 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2527 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2528 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2529 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2530
cf8b11a5
PH
2531PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2532
41c7c167
PH
2533PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2534 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2535 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2536 values).
2537
9c57cbc0
PH
2538PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2539
f3f065bb
PH
2540PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2541
047bdd8c
PH
2542PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2543
0ce9abe6
PH
2544PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2545
0e22dfd1
PH
2546PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2547
4c590bd1
PH
2548PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2549 no_callout_flush is set.
2550
09945f1e
PH
2551PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2552 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2553 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2554 fixed.
2555
c51b8e75
PH
2556PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2557
e28326d8 2558PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2559 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2560 other ACL rejections are.
2561
75b1493f
PH
2562PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2563 with slight modification.
2564
7c5214ec
PH
2565PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2566 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2567
4311097e
PH
2568PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2569 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2570 connection.
2571
29f89cad
PH
2572PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2573 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2574
5e687460
SC
2575SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2576
c3611384
PH
2577PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2578 expansion side effects.
2579
5a11a7b4
PH
2580PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2581 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2582 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2583 be the same.
2584
0e20aff9
MH
2585MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2586 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2587 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2588
ca86f471
PH
2589PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2590 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2591 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2592 were accidentally chopped off.
2593
a14e5636
PH
2594PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2595 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2596 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2597 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2598 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2599 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2600 pipelining has not been advertised.
2601
ec95d1a6
PH
2602PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2603
42855d71
PH
2604PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2605 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2606 This has been fixed.
2607
57c2c631
PH
2608PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2609 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2610 reported on Solaris.
2611
58c01c94
PH
2612PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2613 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2614 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2615 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2616 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2617 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2618 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2619
dee5a20a
PH
2620PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2621 cpus.
2622
d2ee6114
PH
2623PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2624
b2d5182b
PH
2625PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2626
79749a79
PH
2627PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2628 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2629 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2630 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2631 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2632 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2633
c456d9bb
PH
2634PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2635 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2636 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2637 host_all_ignored option.
2638
cd9868ec
PH
2639PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2640 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2641 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2642 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2643 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2644 is what is supposed to happen).
2645
ebeaf996
PH
2646PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2647 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2648 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2649 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2650 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2651 uses the Exim user.
2652
2679d413
PH
2653PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2654 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2655 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2656 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2657 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2658 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2659 users.
2660
84024b72
PH
2661PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2662
8005d38e
SC
2663SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2664 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2665 (Jez Hancock).
2666 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2667 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2668
3298c6c6
SC
2669SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2670
a43a27c5
PH
2671PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2672
58eb016e 2673PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2674 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2675 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2676 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2677 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2678 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2679 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2680 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2681 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2682 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2683 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2684
b43a74ea
PH
2685PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2686 advertised in response to EHLO.
2687
b4ed4da0 2688
5dd1517f
PH
2689Exim version 4.66
2690-----------------
2691
2692PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2693 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2694
2695 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2696 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2697
2698 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2699 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2700 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2701
2702 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2703 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2704 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2705 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2706 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2707
2708
93cfa765
TK
2709Exim version 4.65
2710-----------------
2711
2712TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2713 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2714 versions. (#438)
2715
d6066548
MH
2716MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2717 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2718 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2719
4362ff0d
PH
2720PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2721 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2722 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2723 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2724 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2725 rather than extend the field.
2726
93cfa765 2727
944e9e9c
TF
2728Exim version 4.64
2729-----------------
aa41d2de 2730
21d74bd9
TK
2731TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2732 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2733 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2734 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2735 these files.
2736
2737TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2738 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2739 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2740
2741TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2742 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2743 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2744
2745TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2746 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2747 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2748 in the field name.
2749
2b1c6e3a
PH
2750PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2751 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2752 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2753 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2754 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2755 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2756 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2757 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2758 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2759 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2760 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2761
1f872c80
PH
2762PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2763 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2764
2765PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2766 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2767 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2768 ignores EPIPE as well.
2769
d203e649
PH
2770PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2771 (quoted-printable decoding).
2772
cc2ed8f7 2773PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2774 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2775
ddfcd446
PH
2776PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2777
d45b1de8
PH
2778PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2779
2780PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2781
38a0a95f 2782PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2783 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2784
a2405d83
JJ
2785JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2786 in 4.64-PH/09.
2787
2788JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2789 miscellaneous code fixes
2790
6ea85e9a
PH
2791PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2792 rejections.
2793
26da7e20
PH
2794PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2795 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2796 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2797 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2798 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2799 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2800 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2801 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2802
14aa5a05 2803PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2804 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2805 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2806 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2807 function.
2808 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2809 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2810 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2811 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2812 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2813 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2814 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2815 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2816 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2817
ff75a1f7
PH
2818PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2819 decoding.
2820
e6f6568e
PH
2821PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2822 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2823 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2824 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2825 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2826 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2827 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2828 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2829
d6f6e0dc
PH
2830PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2831 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2832 list.
2833
322050c2
PH
2834PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2835 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2836 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2837 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2838 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2839 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2840 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2841 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2842 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2843 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2844 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2845 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2846 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2847
08955dd3
PH
2848PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2849 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2850 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2851 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2852 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2853 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2854 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2855
1eccaa59
PH
2856PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2857 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2858 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2859 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2860 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2861 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2862 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2863 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2864 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2865 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2866
602e59e5
PH
2867PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2868 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2869 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2870 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2871 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2872
411ef850
PH
2873PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2874 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2875 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2876 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2877 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2878 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2879 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2880
7befa435
PH
2881PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2882 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2883 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2884 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2885 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2886 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2887 been verified.
2888
48da4259 2889PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2890 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2891 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2892 and authorization.)
2893
48da4259
PH
2894PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2895 if any retry times were supplied.
2896
d1d5595c
PH
2897PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2898 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2899 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2900
0ef732d9
PH
2901PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2902
328895cc
PH
2903PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2904
fd700877
PH
2905PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2906 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2907 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2908 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2909 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2910 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2911
8dce1a6f
PH
2912PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2913 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2914
17af4a17
PH
2915PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2916 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2917 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2918
2919PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2920 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2921 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2922 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2923 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2924 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2925 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2926 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2927 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2928
2929 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2930 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2931 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2932 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2933 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2934 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2935 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2936 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2937 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2938
2939 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2940 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2941 hammering the server.
2942
c1114884
PH
2943PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2944 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2945
7a0743eb
PH
2946PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2947
0d85fa3f
PH
2948PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2949 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2950 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2951
1bf43b78
PH
2952PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2953 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2954 one case where this was not true.
2955
520de300
PH
2956PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2957 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2958 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2959 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2960 fails.
2961
48c7f9e2
PH
2962PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2963 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2964 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2965 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 2966 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
2967 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2968 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2969 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2970 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2971 smtp transport.
2972
99ea1c86
PH
2973PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2974 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2975 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2976 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2977
a2042e78
PH
2978PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2979 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2980
4fbcfc2e
PH
2981PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2982 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2983 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2984
aa41d2de
PH
2985PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2986
af561417
PH
2987PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2988
3cc66b45
PH
2989PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2990
194cc0e4
PH
2991PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2992 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2993 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2994 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2995
a401ddaa
PH
2996PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2997 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2998
4e88a19f
PH
2999PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3000 be meaningful with "accept".
3001
d7d7b289
SC
3002SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3003 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3004
3005SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3006 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3007 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3008
3009SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3010 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3011 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3012 there is data to show.
3013 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3014
3015SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3016 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3017 as well as the number of messages.
3018
3019SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3020 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3021 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3022
3023SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3024 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3025 have a flag are now skipped.
3026
3027SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3028 Added the -emptyok flag.
3029
3030SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3031 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3032
0ea2a468
JJ
3033JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3034 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 3035 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
3036
3037JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3038 match 4.64-PH/13
3039
3040JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3041 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3042
3043JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3044
3045JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3046 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3047
8a10f5a4
PH
3048PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3049
30e18802
PH
3050PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3051 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3052 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3053 contravention of the specifications.
3054
55728a4f
PH
3055PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3056 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3057 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 3058
d7837193
PH
3059PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3060 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3061 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3062
87054a31
PH
3063PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3064
ea2c01d2
MH
3065MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3066 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3067 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3068 some point in the past.
3069
e4fa6968
PH
3070PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3071 transport during callout processing was broken.
3072
56f5d9bd
PH
3073PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3074 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3075
922e1c28
PH
3076PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3077 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3078
21eb6e72
PH
3079PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3080 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3081
a0540757
PH
3082PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3083
944e9e9c 3084
478be7b0
SC
3085Exim version 4.63
3086-----------------
3087
3088SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3089 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3090
3091SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3092 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3093 there is data to show.
3094 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3095
3096SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3097 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3098
2b965a65
TF
3099TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3100 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 3101
45b91596
PH
3102TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3103 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 3104
c59f5781
TF
3105TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3106 submissions from trusted users.
3107
90fc3069
TF
3108TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3109 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3110
6083aca0
TF
3111TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3112 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3113 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3114 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3115 there is now a framework to start from.
3116
765b530f
PH
3117PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3118 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3119 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3120
4e167a8c
PH
3121PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3122
4608d683
PH
3123PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3124
b8dc3e4a
PH
3125PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3126
5418e93b
PH
3127PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3128 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3129 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3130
b4a9bda2
PH
3131PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3132 libradius.
3133
45b91596
PH
3134PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3135 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3136 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3137
5547e2c5
PH
3138PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3139 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3140 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3141 its arguments.
3142
dbcef0ea
PH
3143PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3144 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3145 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3146 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3147 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3148
25257489
PH
3149PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3150 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3151
c816d124
PH
3152PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3153
a9ccd69a
PH
3154PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3155 operations in malware.c.
3156
75fa1910
PH
3157PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3158 signatures.
3159
a7d7aa58
PH
3160PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3161 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3162 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3163 all.
3164
42119b09
PH
3165PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3166 statements to "add_header".
3167
41609df5
PH
3168PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3169 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3170
a5bd321b
PH
3171PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3172 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3173 latter.
3174
e85a7ad5 3175PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3176 so that it is now:
3177
e85a7ad5
PH
3178 ${if or { \
3179 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3180 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3181 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3182 }{no}{yes}}
3183
e85a7ad5
PH
3184 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3185 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3186
d8fe1c03
PH
3187PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3188 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3189
16282d2b
PH
3190PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3191 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3192 any possible encoding problems.
3193
35d40a98
PH
3194PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3195 but not after initializing Perl.
3196
034d99ab
PH
3197PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3198 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3199 apparently, which is not desirable.
3200
6ec97b1b
PH
3201PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3202 queries.
3203
e22ca4ac
JJ
3204JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3205 --not options
3206
3207JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3208
33d73e3b
PH
3209PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3210 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3211 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3212 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3213
9ecb03f3
PH
3214PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3215 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3216 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3217
084efe8d
PH
3218PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3219 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3220 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3221 0.12.
3222
366fc9f0
PH
3223PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3224 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3225 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3226 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3227 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3228
c59f5781 3229
c887c79e
TF
3230Exim version 4.62
3231-----------------
3232
3233TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3234 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3235
1cce3af8
PH
3236PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3237 patch).
3238
afb3eaaf
PH
3239PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3240 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3241 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3242 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3243 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3244 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3245 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3246 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3247 451 error is used.
3248
e173618b
PH
3249PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3250
dd16e114
PH
3251PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3252 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3253 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3254
f7fd3850
PH
3255PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3256 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3257 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3258 odd errors.
3259
d87df92c
PH
3260PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3261 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3262
7e9f683d
PH
3263PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3264 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3265 option (which defaults to 0600).
3266
bfad5236
PH
3267PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3268
01c490df
PH
3269PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3270 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3271 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3272 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3273 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3274 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3275 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3276
d6629cdc
PH
3277PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3278
1cce3af8 3279
214e2000
PH
3280Exim version 4.61
3281-----------------
3282
3283PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3284 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3285 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3286 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3287 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3288 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3289 addresses as local.
3290
f9daeae0
PH
3291PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3292 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3293
7e66e54d
PH
3294PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3295
c8ea1597
PH
3296PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3297 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3298 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3299 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3300 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3301 grumble.
3302
911f6fde
PH
3303PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3304 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3305
47ca6d6c
PH
3306PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3307 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3308 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3309 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3310 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3311
ed0e9820
PH
3312PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3313 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3314 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3315 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3316
eff37e47
PH
3317PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3318 be the same on different OS.
3319
1921d2ea
PH
3320PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3321 testing.
3322
b3f69ca8
JJ
3323JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3324 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3325
3326JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3327 in 4.61-PH/06
3328
424a1c63
PH
3329PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3330 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3331 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3332 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3333 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3334 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3335 bounce message.
3336
7a100415
PH
3337PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3338 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3339 when Exim was called.
3340
19b9dc85
PH
3341PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3342 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3343
309bd837
PH
3344PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3345 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3346 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3347 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3348
59e82a2a
PH
3349PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3350 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3351 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3352 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3353 changes:
3354
3355 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3356 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3357 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3358
3359 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3360 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3361 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3362
9edc04ce
PH
3363PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3364 feature).
3365
1349e1e5
PH
3366PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3367 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3368 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3369 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3370 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3371 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3372 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3373 values from the SRV records were lost.
3374
ea49d0e1
PH
3375PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3376 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3377 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3378
064a94c9
PH
3379PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3380 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3381 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3382
727071f8
PH
3383PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3384 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3385 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3386 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3387 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3388 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3389 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3390 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3391 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3392 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3393
f78eb7c6
PH
3394PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3395 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3396 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3397
21c28500
PH
3398PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3399 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3400
3401PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3402 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3403 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3404 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3405 is given.
3406
1688f43b
PH
3407PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3408 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3409 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3410
3411PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3412 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3413 PH/23 above applies.
3414
9675b384
PH
3415PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3416 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3417 (for which there is an explicit test).
3418
6a3f1455
PH
3419PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3420
dac79d3e
PH
3421PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3422 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3423 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3424 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3425 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3426
5977a0b3
PH
3427PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3428 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3429 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3430 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3431
c91535f3
PH
3432PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3433 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3434 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3435
0d46a8c8
PH
3436PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3437
278c6e6c
PH
3438PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3439
2cbb4081
PH
3440PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3441 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3442 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3443
3eef829e
PH
3444PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3445 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3446 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3447 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3448 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3449
1ab95fa6
PH
3450PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3451 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3452 the message gets confusing).
3453
230205fc
PH
3454PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3455 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3456 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3457 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3458
75e0e026
PH
3459PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3460 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3461 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3462 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3463 same order.
3464
3465PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3466 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3467 the different processes.
3468
145396a6
PH
3469PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3470
3cd34f13
PH
3471PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3472
11121d3d
JJ
3473JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3474 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3475
3476JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3477 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3478
3479JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3480 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3481 messages matching specified criteria.
3482
8def5aaf
PH
3483PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3484
929ba01c
PH
3485PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3486 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3487
2632889e
PH
3488PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3489 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3490 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3491 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3492 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3493 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3494 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3495 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3496 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3497 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3498
944a9c55
PH
3499PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3500 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3501 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3502
4a23603b
PH
3503PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3504
4730f942
PH
3505PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3506 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3507 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3508 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3509 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3510 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3511 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3512 the variable.
3513
30dba1e6
PH
3514PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3515 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3516
382afc6b
PH
3517PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3518
a86229cf
PH
3519PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3520
50c99ba6
PH
3521PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3522
d35e429d
PH
3523PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3524 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3525 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3526 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3527 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3528 size of the count of files.
3529
f90d018c
PH
3530PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3531
75def545
PH
3532PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3533 used in LMTP mode:
3534
3535 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3536 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3537 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3538 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3539
3540 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3541 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3542 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3543
3544PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3545 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3546 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3547 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3548 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3549
c46782ef
PH
3550PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3551 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3552
71fafd95
PH
3553PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3554 will now be deprecated.
3555
2c5db4fd
PH
3556PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3557
9cf6b11a
JJ
3558JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3559 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3560 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3561
3562JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3563 with very large, slow to parse queues
3564
3565JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3566
3567JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3568
898d150f
PH
3569PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3570 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3571 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3572 SMTP output lines.
3573
46218253
PH
3574PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3575 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3576 Sieve code now uses this.
3577
e97957bc
PH
3578PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3579 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3580
81e509d7
PH
3581PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3582 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3583
3d240ff7
PH
3584PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3585
b37c4101
PH
3586PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3587 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3588 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3589 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3590 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3591
79378e0f
PH
3592PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3593 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3594 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3595 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3596
e49c7bb4
PH
3597PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3598
d114ec46
PH
3599PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3600
f3d7df6c
PH
3601PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3602 is preferred over IPv4.
3603
715ab376
PH
3604PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3605 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3606 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3607 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3608 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3609 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3610 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3611
6b31b150
PH
3612PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3613 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3614 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3615
3616PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3617
d515a917
PH
3618PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3619 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3620 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3621 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3622 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3623 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3624 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3625 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3626 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3627 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3628 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3629
9b8fadde
PH
3630PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3631 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3632 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3633
214e2000 3634
5de37277
PH
3635Exim version 4.60
3636-----------------
3637
cc38ddbf
PH
3638PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3639
3640 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3641 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3642
3643 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3644 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3645 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3646
72fdd6ae
PH
3647PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3648
3649 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3650 not a single digit.
3651
3652 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3653 string.
3654
3655 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3656 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3657 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3658 silly things.
3659
3660 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3661 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3662
3663 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3664 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3665
cb741023
PH
3666PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3667 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3668 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3669
f174f16e
PH
3670PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3671 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3672
c25242d7
PH
3673PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3674 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3675
3676 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3677
3678 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3679 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3680 this:
3681
3682 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3683
82c19f95
PH
3684PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3685 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3686 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3687 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3688 identical. For example:
3689
3690 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3691
3692 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3693 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3694 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3695
d7ffbc12
PH
3696PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3697 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3698 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3699 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3700
9f526266
PH
3701PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3702 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3703 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3704 message.
3705
87fcc8b9
PH
3706PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3707
3708 o fixes some comments
3709 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3710 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3711 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3712 and documents the missing references header update
3713
3714 and most important:
3715
3716 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3717 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3718 result)
3719
456682f5
PH
3720PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3721 Electronic Mail") by including:
3722
3723 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3724
3725 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3726 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3727 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3728 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3729 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3730
3731 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3732
3733 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3734
3735 The auto-replied keyword:
3736
3737 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3738 message by an automatic process,
3739
3740 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3741
3742 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3743 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3744
3745 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3746 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3747 other messages.
3748
3e46c1aa
PH
3749PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3750 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3751
49826d12
PH
3752PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3753
eba0c039
PH
3754PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3755 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3756 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3757
a0d6ba8a
PH
3758PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3759 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3760 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3761
f0917727
PH
3762PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3763 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3764 and treats the condition as false.
3765
096fee00
PH
3766PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3767
024bd3c2
PH
3768PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3769 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3770 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3771 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3772 not changing the active code.
3773
3774 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3775 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3776
3777 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3778 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3779
df199fec
PH
3780PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3781 (Bugzilla #53).
3782
d27f1df3
PH
3783PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3784 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3785 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3786 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3787 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3788 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3789 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3790 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3791 the text comparison.
3792
96776534
PH
3793PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3794 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3795 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3796 The same fix has been applied.
3797
5de37277 3798
9a799bc0
PH
3799Exim version 4.54
3800-----------------
3801
3802PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3803 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3804 It now does.
3805
99a4b039
PH
3806PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3807 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3808
3809PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3810
4b233853
PH
3811PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3812 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3813 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3814 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3815 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3816
8857ccfd
PH
3817TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3818 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3819 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3820 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3821 or /domain=).
3822
433a2980
PH
3823PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3824 testing suite.
3825
3e46c1aa 3826
9a799bc0 3827
e3a311ba
TK
3828Exim version 4.53
3829-----------------
3830
3831TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3832 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3833
13b685f9
PH
3834PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3835
395ff96d
PH
3836PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3837
5b68f6e4
PH
3838PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3839 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3840 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3841
1ab52c69
PH
3842PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3843 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3844 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3845
b07e6aa3
PH
3846PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3847 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3848 operating systems.
3849
254e032f
PH
3850PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3851 ${stat: expansion item.
3852
3af76a81
PH
3853PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3854 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3855
2548ba04
PH
3856PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3857 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3858 file for comments.
3859
b6c6011d
PH
3860PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3861
cf39cf57
PH
3862PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3863 setting.
3864
f1513293
PH
3865PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3866 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3867
727549a4
PH
3868TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3869
af46795e
PH
3870PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3871 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3872 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3873 the end of the subprocess.
3874
d7b47fd0
PH
3875PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3876 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3877 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3878 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3879 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3880
ee744174
JJ
3881JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3882
b582ab87
PH
3883TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3884
41a13e0a
PH
3885PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3886 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3887
f625cc5a
PH
3888PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3889
3890PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3891
21f7af35
PH
3892PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3893 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3894 HP-UX compiler.
3895
31480e42
PH
3896PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3897
2d280592
PH
3898PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3899 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3900 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3901
7cd1141b
PH
3902PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3903 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3904
3905PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3906 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3907
750af86e
PH
3908PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3909 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3910
3911 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3912 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3913
3914 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3915 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3916 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3917 contributed by a Radius user.
3918
3919PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3920 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3921
4304270b
TK
3922TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3923 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3924
750af86e
PH
3925PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3926 available.
3927
64ffc24f
PH
3928PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3929 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3930 received.
3931
5dd9625b
PH
3932PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3933 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3934 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3935 header lines when this was not necessary.
3936
5591031b
PH
3937PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3938
ba18e66a
PH
3939PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3940 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3941 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3942 exists".
3943
9cec981f
PH
3944PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3945 -bV or -d is used.
3946
aa2b5c79
PH
3947PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3948 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3949 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3950 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3951
48a53b7f
PH
3952PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3953
1c59d63b
PH
3954PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3955
671012da
TK
3956TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3957
1509d3a8
PH
3958PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3959
3960PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3961 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3962 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3963 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3964 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3965 settings.
3966
3967PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3968
2fe1a124
PH
3969PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3970 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3971 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3972 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3973 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3974 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3975 which is clearly wrong.
3976
8800895a
PH
3977PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3978
ccfdb010
PH
3979PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3980 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3981 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3982 subsequently added.
3983
1130bfb0
PH
3984PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3985 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3986
ebcb507f
PH
3987PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3988
c35e155c
PH
3989PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3990 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3991
95d1f782
PH
3992PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3993 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3994
fd6de02e
PH
3995PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3996 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3997
58de37c5
PH
3998PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3999 recipients, not senders.
4000
261cf466
TF
4001TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4002 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4003
3ee512ff
PH
4004PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4005
e08c430f
PH
4006PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4007
bef5a11f
PH
4008PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4009 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4010 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4011 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4012
7546de58
TF
4013TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4014
e5d5a95f
TF
4015TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4016 clock is set back in time.
4017
2e88a017
TF
4018TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4019 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4020
a5f65aa4
TF
4021TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4022 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4023
e7726cbf
PH
4024PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4025 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4026 (see PH/47 above).
4027
a7fdad5b
TF
4028TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4029 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4030 header rewrites.
4031
6af56900
PH
4032PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4033 type ("H").
4034
0925ede6
PH
4035PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4036
66afa403
TF
4037TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4038 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4039 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4040
0154e85a
TF
4041TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4042 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4043 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4044 helo verification defer as a failure.
4045
16f12c76
PH
4046PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4047 actual error message.
4048
bbe902f0 4049
e5a9dba6
PH
4050Exim version 4.52
4051-----------------
4052
4053TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4054
22c3b60b
PH
4055PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4056 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4057 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4058 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4059
06a9b4b5
PH
4060TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4061
c1ac6996
PH
4062PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4063 can still be requested.
4064
9c7a242c
PH
4065PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4066 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4067 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4068 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4069
87ba3f5f
PH
4070TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4071 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4072 circumstances, but probably never did.
4073
4074PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4075 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4076 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4077 in the header line.
4078
29aba418
TF
4079TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4080
fe0dab11
TF
4081TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4082 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 4083
11d337a4
TK
4084TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4085
4086TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4087
415c8f3b
PH
4088PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4089 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4090 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 4091 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
4092 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4093 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 4094
958541e9
PH
4095PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4096 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4097 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4098 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4099 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4100 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4101
c206415f
TK
4102TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4103 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4104
2a4be8f9
PH
4105PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4106 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4107
1cba11c5
SC
4108SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4109 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4110
4c04137d 4111SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
4112
4113SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4114
4115SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4116
4117SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4118
4119SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4120
4121SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4122
1005d00e
TK
4123TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4124
4125TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4126 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4127 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4128
4129TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4130 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4131 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4132 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4133
9b4768fa
PH
4134PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4135 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4136 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4137
4138PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4139 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4140 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4141 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4142
0d7eb84a
PH
4143PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4144 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4145 to be made).
4146
4147PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4148 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4149 should work with maildirs and everything.
4150
40727bee
TK
4151TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4152 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4153
554d2369
TF
4154TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4155 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4156
1f922db1
PH
4157PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4158 function for BDB 4.3.
4159
ef213c3b
PH
4160PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4161
8ac170f3
PH
4162PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4163 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4164 involved.
4165
b1c749bb
PH
4166PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4167 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4168 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4169 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4170 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4171 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4172
4aac9b49
PH
4173PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4174 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4175 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4176 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4177 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4178 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4179 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4180 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4181
294520c8
TK
4182TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4183 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4184 details.
4185
5bd022fe
PH
4186PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4187 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4188
90e9ce59
PH
4189PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4190 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4191 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4192 test. It is now used for both.
4193
5ea81592
PH
4194PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4195 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4196 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4197 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4198 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4199 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4200
c6c2dc1d
PH
4201PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4202 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4203 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4204 string_vformat().
4205
fffffe4c
PH
4206PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4207 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4208 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4209
9a26b6b2
PH
4210PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4211 experimental DomainKeys support:
4212
4213 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4214 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4215 the control was given.
4216
4217 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4218
4aee0225
PH
4219PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4220
32d668a5
PH
4221PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4222
8187c3f3
PH
4223PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4224 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4225 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4226 db.h files).
4227
ff790e47 4228PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4229 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4230 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4231 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4232 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4233 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4234 course.
ff790e47 4235
5417f6d1
PH
4236PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4237 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4238 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4239 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4240 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4241 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4242
59cf8544
PH
4243PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4244 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4245 do -d+all out of habit.
4246
e7ad8a65
PH
4247PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4248 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4249 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4250
ade42478
PH
4251PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4252 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4253 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4254 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4255 record types that Exim uses.
4256
182ad5cf
PH
4257PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4258 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4259 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4260 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4261 non-existent file that was broken.
4262
b0d9fc80
TK
4263TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4264 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4265
4266TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4267 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4268 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4269
4270TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4271
47c7a64a
PH
4272PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4273 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4274 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4275 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4276 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4277 same time.
4278
a388bce4
SC
4279SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4280 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4281 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4282 at a slight CPU cost.
4283
4284SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4285 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4286
4287SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4288 by Marc Sherman.
4289
0793e4ed
SC
4290SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4291
c58b88df
PH
4292PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4293 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4294
e7ad8a65 4295
7982096b
PH
4296Exim version 4.51
4297-----------------
4298
1a46a8c5
PH
4299TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4300 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4301
2f079f46 4302TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4303
4304TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4305
4306PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4307 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4308
4309PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4310 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4311 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4312 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4313 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4314 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4315 file.
4316
4317PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4318 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4319 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4320 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4321 these two options.
4322
4323PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4324 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4325 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4326 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4327 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4328 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4329 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4330 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4331
4332PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4333 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4334
4335PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4336 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4337 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4338 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4339 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4340 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4341
4342PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4343 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4344 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4345 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4346
4347PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4348 Finch).
4349
4350PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4351 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4352
49c2d5ea
PH
4353PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4354 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4355 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4356 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4357 message.
49c2d5ea 4358
bf759a8b
PH
4359PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4360
83364d30
PH
4361PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4362 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4363
7999bbd7
PH
4364PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4365 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4366 to what was transported.)
4367
7dbf77c9
PH
4368TF/01 Added $received_time.
4369
74e0617f
PH
4370PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4371 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4372 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4373 spamd_address settings.
4374
2f079f46
PH
4375PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4376 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4377 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4378 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4379 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4380
8c841523
PH
4381PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4382
7766a4f0
PH
4383PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4384 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4385 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4386 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4387 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4388
8b417f2c
PH
4389PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4390 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4391
901f42cb
PH
4392PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4393 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4394 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4395 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4396 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4397 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4398 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4399 for failure.
4400
f9b9210e
PH
4401PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4402 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4403 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4404 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4405 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4406 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4407 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4408 "input=".
4409
54cdb463
PH
4410PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4411
cf00dad6
PH
4412PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4413 driver and ACL definitions.
4414
acb1b346
PH
4415PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4416 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4417
c5ddb310
PH
4418PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4419 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4420 understands it better than I do:
4421
4422 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4423 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4424
4425 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4426 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4427 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4428 => three warnings about OTP not working
4429 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4430
4431 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4432 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4433 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4434 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4435 for each call.)
4436 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4437 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4438
4439 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4440 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4441 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4442
31619da6
PH
4443PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4444 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4445 specified.
4446
bebaf0fc
PH
4447PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4448 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4449 "Linux".
4450
475fe28a
PH
4451PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4452 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4453 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4454
4455 warn !verify = sender
4456 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4457
4458 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4459 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4460
7e8bec7a
PH
4461PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4462
4463 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4464 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4465
4466 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4467 nomenclature these days.)
4468
e4a89c47
PH
4469PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4470 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4471
5ca2a9a1
PH
4472PH/30 In these circumstances:
4473 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4474 . First host does not offer TLS;
4475 . First host accepts first address;
4476 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4477 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4478 . Second host accepts second address.
4479 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4480 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4481 address.
7e8bec7a 4482
c688b954
PH
4483PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4484 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4485 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4486 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4487 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4488
fed77020
PH
4489PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4490 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4491
7fe1560f
PH
4492PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4493 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4494
ebb6e6d5
PH
4495PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4496 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4497 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4498
9c4e8f60
PH
4499PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4500 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4501 overlooked.
4502
4503PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4504
d7174846
PH
4505PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4506 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4507 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4508 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4509 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4510 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4511 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4512
4513 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4514 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4515 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4516 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4517 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4518
4519 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4520 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4521 routed further.
4522
cfe75fc3
PH
4523PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4524 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4525 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4526 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4527 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4528 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4529
be22d70e
PH
4530PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4531
0612b098
PH
4532PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4533 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4534 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4535 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4536 printable escape sequences.
4537
2e0c1448
PH
4538PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4539 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4540 body only.
4541
447d236c
PH
4542PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4543 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4544 are as follows:
4545
4546 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4547 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4548 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4549 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4550 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4551
4552 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4553 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4554 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4555
d20976dc
PH
4556PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4557
f656d135
PH
4558PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4559 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4560 play with."
4561
2e2a30b4
PH
4562PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4563 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4564 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4565 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4566 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4567 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4568 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4569 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4570 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4571 the log output.
4572
9176e9f0
PH
4573PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4574 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4575 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4576 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4577 "make".
4578
7982096b 4579
bbe902f0
PH
4580A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4581----------------------------------------
4582
4583Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4584changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4585needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4586in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4587that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4588release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4589from 4.43.
4590
4591I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
45924.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4593those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4594historical information.
4595
4596
f7b63901 4597Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4598-----------------
4599
5fe762f6
PH
4600 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4601
139059f6 4602 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4603 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4604
7086e875
PH
4605 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4606 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4607 place.
4608
35af9f61
PH
4609 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4610 filter fails to execute.
4611
b668c215
PH
4612 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4613 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4614 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4615 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4616 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4617
a494b1e1
PH
4618 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4619
4620 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4621 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4622 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4623 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4624
c5fcb476
PH
4625 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4626 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4627 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4628 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4629 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4630
69358f02
PH
4631 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4632
5be20824
PH
463310. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4634
eb2c0248
PH
463511. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4636 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4637 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4638 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4639
2a3eea10
PH
464012. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4641 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4642 sender verification.
4643
464413. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4645 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4646
23c7ff99
PH
464714. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4648
4deaf07d
PH
464915. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4650 connection timeout.
4651
926e1192
PH
465216. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4653 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4654
650edc6f
PH
465517. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4656 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4657
2c7db3f5
PH
465818. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4659 information about exactly what failed.
4660
3d235903
PH
466119. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4662
7c7ad977
PH
466320. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4664 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4665 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4666
981756db
PH
466721. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4668 It is now set to "smtps".
4669
d4eb88df
PH
467022. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4671 ignore_target_hosts.
4672
467323. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4674 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4675 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4676 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4677 "[x.x.x.x]".
4678
7d468ab8
PH
467924. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4680 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4681 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4682
468325. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4684 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4685 wake it up if nothing else does.
4686
62c0818f
PH
468726. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4688 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4689 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4690 end up negative.
4691
26034054
PH
469227. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4693 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4694
af66f652
PH
469528. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4696
90af77f4
PH
469729. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4698 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4699 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4700 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4701 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4702 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4703 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4704 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4705
d8ef3577
PH
470630. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4707 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4708 than one IP address.
4709
5cb8cbc6
PH
471031. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4711 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4712 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4713 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4714
14702f5b
PH
471532. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4716 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4717 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4718 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4719 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4720 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4721
063b1e99
PH
472233. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4723 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4724 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4725 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4726
652e1b65
PH
472734. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4728 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4729 respected.
4730
6f0c9a4f
PH
473135. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4732 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4733 $sender_host_address.
4734
33397d19
PH
473536. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4736 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4737 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4738 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4739 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4740 very small.
4741
7bb56e1f
PH
474237. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4743
4744 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4745 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4746
ea3bc19b
PH
4747 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4748 just the host names, not the priorities.
4749
4750 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4751 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4752 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4753
ea3bc19b 4754 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4755 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4756
0bcb2a0e
PH
475738. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4758 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4759 domain.
4760
2ac0e484
PH
476139. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4762
4e1fde53
PH
476340. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4764 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4765
de365ded
PH
476641. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4767 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4768 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4769
f05da2e8
PH
477042. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4771
d6453af2
PH
477243. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4773
f7b63901
PH
477444. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4775
477645. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4777 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4778 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4779 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4780 because the tests only now provoked it.
4781
a444213a
PH
478246. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4783 (this can affect the format of dates).
4784
0ec020ea
PH
478547. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4786 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4787 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4788 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4789
b1206957
PH
479048. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4791
479249. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4793 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4794 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4795 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4796
26dd5a95
PH
479750. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4798 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4799 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4800
343b2385
PH
480151. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4802 autoreply.
4803
1c5466b9
PH
480452. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4805 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4806 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4807 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4808 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4809 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4810 is going on).
4811
55ee9ee3
PH
481253. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4813 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4814 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4815 the line.
4816
d38f8232
PH
481754. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4818 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4819 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4820
4821 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4822 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4823 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4824 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4825 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4826 so I produce this patch..."
4827
3295e65b
PH
4828 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4829 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4830 is not defined.
4831
7102e136
PH
483255. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4833 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4834 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4835 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4836 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4837
3ca0ba97
PH
483856. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4839
c2bcbe20
PH
484057. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4841 long debug lines gets shown.
4842
18ce445d
PH
484358. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4844 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4845
1f5b4c3d
PH
484659. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4847
4848 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4849 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4850 of $primary_hostname.
4851
b975ba52
PH
485260. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4853 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4854 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4855 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4856 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4857 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4858 by change 4.50/55 above.
4859
4860 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4861 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4862 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4863 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4864 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4865 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4866 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4867
486861. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4869 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4870 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4871 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4872
17ffcae7
PH
487362. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4874 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4875
d95f9fdb
PH
487663. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4877 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4878 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4879 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4880 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4881
86b8287f
PH
488264. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4883 This has been fixed.
4884
60dc5e56
PH
488565. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4886 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4887 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4888 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4889 the caching.)
4890
533244af
PH
489166. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4892
a5a28604
PH
489367. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4894 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4895 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4896 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4897
7e634d24
PH
489868. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4899 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4900
3e11c26b
PH
490169. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4902 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4903 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4904
6729cf78
PH
490570. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4906 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4907 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4908 message there.
4909
00f00ca5
PH
491071. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4911 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4912 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4913
c9bdd01c
PH
491472. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4915 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4916 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4917 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4918
d43194df
PH
491973. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4920 during host lookups.
4921
fe5b5d0b
PH
492274. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4923 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4924
4925 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4926
76a2d7ba
PH
492775. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4928 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4929 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4930 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4931 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4932 background.
4933
493476. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4935 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4936
04f7d5b9
PH
493777. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4938 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4939 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4940
bc60667e
PH
494178. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4942
bb6e88ff
PH
494379. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4944 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4945 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4946 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4947 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4948 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4949 process earlier.
4950
1e70f85b
PH
495180. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4952 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4953 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4954 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4955 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4956
495781. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4958 tables).
4959
4e01f9d6
PH
496082. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4961
1ee1cef2
PH
496283. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4963 "vacation" handling.
4964
6e2b4ccc
PH
496584. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4966 OS variants using glibc.
4967
8e669ac1
PH
496885. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4969
495ae4b0 4970
bbe902f0
PH
4971----------------------------------------------------
4972See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4973----------------------------------------------------
4974
4975
4976Exim version 4.44
4977-----------------
4978
4979 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4980 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4981 transport
4982
4983 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4984 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4985 place.
4986
4987 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4988 filter fails to execute.
4989
4990 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4991 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4992 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4993 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4994 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4995
4996 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4997 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4998 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4999 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5000
5001 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5002 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5003 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5004 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5005 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5006
5007 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5008
5009 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5010 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5011 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5012 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5013
5014 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5015 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5016 sender verification.
5017
501810. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5019 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5020
502111. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5022 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5023
502412. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5025 ignore_target_hosts.
5026
502713. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5028 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5029 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5030 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5031 "[x.x.x.x]".
5032
503314. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5034 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5035 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5036
503715. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5038 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5039 wake it up if nothing else does.
5040
504116. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5042 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5043 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5044 end up negative.
5045
504617. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5047 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5048
ea3a6f44 504918. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
5050
505119. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5052 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5053 empty pattern.
5054
505520. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5056 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5057 one IP address.
5058
ea3a6f44
NM
505921. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5060 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5061 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5062 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5063 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5064 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 5065
ea3a6f44
NM
506622. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5067 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5068 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
5069
507023. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5071 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5072 $sender_host_address.
5073
507424. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5075
ea3a6f44
NM
507625. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5077 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5078 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
5079
508026. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 5081 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 5082
ea3a6f44
NM
508327. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5084 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 5085
ea3a6f44
NM
508628. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5087 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5088 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5089 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
5090
509129. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5092 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5093 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5094
ea3a6f44
NM
509530. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5096 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5097 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5098 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 5099
ea3a6f44
NM
510031. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5101 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5102 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 5103
ea3a6f44
NM
510431. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5105 autoreply.
bbe902f0 5106
ea3a6f44
NM
510732. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5108 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5109 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5110 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5111 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5112 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5113 is going on).
bbe902f0 5114
ea3a6f44
NM
511533. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5116 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5117 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5118 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
5119 CAN-2005-0021
5120
ea3a6f44
NM
512134. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5122 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5123 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5124 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5125 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5126 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5127 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5128
5129 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5130 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5131 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5132 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5133 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5134 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
5135 CAN-2005-0021
5136
ea3a6f44
NM
513735. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5138 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5139 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5140 CAN-2005-0022
5141
ea3a6f44
NM
514236. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5143 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5144 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5145 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5146 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5147
ea3a6f44
NM
514837. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5149 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5150 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5151 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5152 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5153
ea3a6f44
NM
515438. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5155 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5156 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5157 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5158 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5159
5160
495ae4b0
PH
5161Exim version 4.43
5162-----------------
5163
5164 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5165 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5166 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5167 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5168 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5169 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5170 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5171
5172 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5173 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5174 the delivery.
5175
5176 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5177
5178 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5179
5180 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5181 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5182 to local_scan().
5183
5184 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5185 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5186 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5187 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5188 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5189
5190 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5191 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5192
5193 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5194
5195 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5196
519710. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5198 header_sender only.
5199
520011. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5201 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5202
520312. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5204 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5205 affecting debugging statements).
5206
520713. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5208
520914. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5210 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5211 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5212 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5213 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5214 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5215 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5216 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5217 after the received time, and all would be well.
5218
521915. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5220 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5221 condition in an expansion string.
5222
522316. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5224
522517. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5226 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5227 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5228 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5229 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5230 job under whatever limits there are.
5231
523218. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5233
523419. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5235 space).
5236
523720. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5238 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5239 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5240 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5241 return path is set.
5242
524321. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5244 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5245 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5246 binary data in such strings.
5247
524822. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5249
525023. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5251 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5252 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5253 failure, which is pointless.
5254
525524. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5256
525725. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5258
525926. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5260 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5261 Sender: header lines.
5262
526327. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5264 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5265 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5266
526728. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5268 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5269 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5270 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5271 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5272 happens.
5273
527429. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5275 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5276 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5277 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5278 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5279
528030. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5281 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5282 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5283 1024.
5284
528531. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5286 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5287
528832. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5289 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5290
529133. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5292
529332. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5294
529533. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5296
529734. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5298 syntax error.
5299
530035. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5301
530236. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5303
530437. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5305 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5306 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5307 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5308
530938. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5310 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5311
5312
5313Exim version 4.42
5314-----------------
5315
5316 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5317 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5318 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5319 it was not quoted.
5320 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5321 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5322 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5323 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5324 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5325 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5326
5327 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5328 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5329 verification failure".
5330
5331 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5332 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5333 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5334 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5335
5336 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5337 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5338 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5339 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5340 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5341 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5342 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5343 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5344 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5345 treated as a timeout.
5346
5347 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5348 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5349 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5350 not set for Exim filters).
5351
5352 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5353 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5354 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5355
5356 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5357
5358 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5359 try to make them clearer.
5360
5361 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5362 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5363
5364 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5365
5366 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5367
536810. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5369 only the Cygwin environment.
5370
537111. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5372 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5373 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5374 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5375 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5376
537712. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5378 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5379 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5380 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5381 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5382 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5383 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5384
538513. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5386 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5387
538814. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5389
5390 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5391 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5392 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5393
5394 To: susanne@some.where
5395
5396 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5397 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5398 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5399 of addresses in From: header lines).
5400
5401 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5402 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5403 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5404
5405 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5406 treated as non-personal.
5407
5408 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5409 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5410
541115. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5412
541316. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5414
541517. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5416 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5417 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5418
541918. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5420 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5421
542219. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5423 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5424 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5425 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5426 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5427 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5428
542920. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5430 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5431 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5432 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5433 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5434 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5435 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5436 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5437
5438 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5439
544021. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5441 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5442
544322. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5444 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5445 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5446
544723. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5448 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5449
545024. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5451 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5452 rather than long int.
5453
545425. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5455
545626. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5457
5458
5459Exim version 4.41
5460-----------------
5461
5462 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5463 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5464 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5465 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5466 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5467 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5468
5469
5470Exim version 4.40
5471-----------------
5472
5473 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5474 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5475
5476 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5477 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5478 socklen_t is defined.
5479
5480 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5481 always exist.
5482
5483 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5484 configured.
5485
5486 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5487 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5488 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5489 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5490 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5491
5492 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5493 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5494 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5495 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5496
5497 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5498 of flapping under certain conditions.
5499
5500 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5501 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5502 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5503
5504 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5505
550610. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5507
550811. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5509 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5510 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5511 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5512
551312. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5514 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5515 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5516 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5517 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5518 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5519 preserved with the message after it was received.
5520
552113. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5522 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5523 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5524 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5525 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5526 test suite worked just fine.
5527
552814. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5529 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5530 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5531
553215. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5533 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5534 string.
5535
553616. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5537 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5538 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5539 does not fully solve it.
5540
554117. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5542 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5543 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5544 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5545 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5546
554718. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5548 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5549 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5550
555119. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5552 string, for example:
5553
5554 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5555
5556 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5557 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5558 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5559 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5560 the routers could not see them.
5561
556220. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5563 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5564
556521. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5566 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5567 output).
5568
556922. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5570 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5571 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5572 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5573 that needed quoting.
5574
557523. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5576 was not being matched caselessly.
5577
557824. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5579 backslashes.
5580
558125. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5582 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5583 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5584 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5585 when use_sender is false.
5586
558726. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5588
558927. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5590
559128. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5592
559329. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5594 the configuration file.
5595
559630. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5597 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5598
559931. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5600
560132. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5602 bytes in the message body.
5603
560433. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5605 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5606 delivery.
5607
560834. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5609
561035. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5611
561236. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5613 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5614 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5615 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5616 another IP address.
5617
5618
5619Exim version 4.34
5620-----------------
5621
5622 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5623 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5624
5625 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5626 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5627 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5628 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5629 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5630
5631 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5632 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5633
5634 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5635 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5636 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5637
5638 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5639 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5640 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5641
5642 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5643 for routers.
5644
5645 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5646 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5647 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5648 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5649 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5650 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5651 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5652
5653
5654Exim version 4.33
5655-----------------
5656
5657 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5658 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5659 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5660 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5661 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5662 default (and expected) setting.
5663
5664 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5665 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5666 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5667 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5668
5669 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5670 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5671
5672 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5673 in domain lists.
5674
5675 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5676 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5677 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5678 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5679 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5680 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5681
5682 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5683 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5684 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5685
5686 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5687 part (NOT match_host).
5688
5689 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5690
5691 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5692 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5693 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5694 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5695 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5696 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5697 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5698 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5699 the same named file.
5700
570110. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5702 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5703 when Exim is built.
5704
570511. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5706 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5707 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5708 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5709 a host name.
5710
571112. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5712 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5713 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5714
571513. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5716
571714. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5718
571915. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5720
572116. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5722 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5723
572417. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5725 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5726 before starting the TLS session.
5727
572818. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5729
573019. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5731 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5732
573320. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5734 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5735 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5736 colon in the middle).
5737
5738
5739Exim version 4.32
5740-----------------
5741
5742 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5743 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5744 multiple configurations are in use.
5745
5746 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5747 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5748 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5749 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5750 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5751 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5752
5753 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5754 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5755
5756 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5757 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5758 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5759
5760 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5761 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5762 occurs.
5763
5764 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5765 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5766
5767 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5768
5769 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5770 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5771
5772 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5773
5774 -prval:sval
5775
5776 is equivalent to
5777
5778 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5779
5780 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5781 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5782 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5783 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5784 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5785
578610. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5787 Exim's behaviour:
5788
5789 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5790 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5791 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5792 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5793 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5794 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5795
5796 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5797 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5798 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5799 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5800 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5801 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5802 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5803 string.
5804
5805 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5806 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5807 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5808 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5809 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5810
581111. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5812
581312. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5814 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5815 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5816
581713. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5818
581914. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5820 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5821 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5822 information.
5823
582415. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5825 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5826
582716. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5828 Three changes have been made:
5829
5830 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5831 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5832 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5833 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5834 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5835
5836 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5837 been restored.
5838
5839 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5840 the modified behaviour.
5841
5842
5843Exim version 4.31
5844-----------------
5845
5846 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5847 Larry Rosenman.
5848
5849 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5850 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5851
5852 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5853 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5854 try to track down a specific problem.
5855
5856 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5857 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5858 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5859
5860 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5861 warning.
5862
5863 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5864 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5865 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5866 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5867 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5868 some earlier ones do not.
5869
5870 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5871
5872 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5873 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5874 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5875 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5876 address literals are enabled, of course).
5877
5878 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5879
588010. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5881 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5882 by a command such as
5883
5884 exim -f "" ...
5885
5886 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5887
588811. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5889
589012. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5891 remained set. It is now erased.
5892
589313. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5894 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5895
589614. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5897 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5898 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5899 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5900 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5901 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5902 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5903 appropriate error code.
5904
590515. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5906 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5907 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5908 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5909 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5910 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5911
591216. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5913 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5914 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5915
591617. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5917 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5918 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5919 terminate the header.
5920
592118. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5922 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5923 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5924
592519. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5926 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5927 (4.30/29). In particular:
5928
5929 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5930 imposed.
5931
5932 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5933 to write a maildirsize file.
5934
5935 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5936 the transport, the new value overrides.
5937
5938 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5939 count.
5940
594120. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5942 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5943 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5944 space or a tab.
5945
594621. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5947 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5948 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5949 the fallback hosts.
5950
595122. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5952 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5953 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5954
595523. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5956 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5957 using a union.
5958
595924. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5960 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5961 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5962
596325. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5964
596526. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5966
596727. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5968
596928. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5970 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5971 become corrupted.
5972
597329. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5974 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5975 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5976 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5977 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5978 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5979 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5980 too great.
5981
598230. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5983 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5984 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5985 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5986 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5987 incorrectly.
5988
598931. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5990 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5991 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5992 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5993 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5994 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5995 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5996 cached value only when the same options are set.
5997
599832. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5999
600033. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6001 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6002 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6003 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6004 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6005
600634: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6007 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6008 it is clearly obsolete.
6009
601035. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6011 transport.
6012
601336. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6014 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6015 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6016 times.
6017
601837. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6019 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6020 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6021 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6022 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6023
602438. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6025 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6026 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6027 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6028
602939. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6030
6031 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6032
6033 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6034 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6035 2^31.
6036
603740. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6038 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6039 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6040 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6041 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6042 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6043 $localpart_data.
6044
604541. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6046 with the -f command-line option.
6047
604842. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6049 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6050 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6051 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6052 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6053 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6054
605543. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6056 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6057 line.
6058
605944. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6060 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6061 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6062 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6063 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6064 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6065 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6066 buffer is too small.
6067
606845. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6069 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6070
607146. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6072 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6073 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6074 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6075 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6076 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6077 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6078 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6079 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6080
608147. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6082 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6083 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6084
608548. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6086 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6087 ACL").
6088
608949. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6090 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6091 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6092 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6093 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6094
609550. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6096 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6097 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6098 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6099 is set.
6100
610151. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6102
610352. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6104
610553. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6106 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6107
610854. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6109 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6110 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6111
611255. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6113 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6114 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6115 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6116 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6117
611856. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6119 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6120 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6121 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6122 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6123 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6124 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6125
612657. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6127 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6128 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6129 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6130 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6131 the test of how many are available.
6132
613358. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6134 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6135 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 6136 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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6137 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6138 new message is started.
6139
614059. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6141 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6142
614360. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6144 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6145
614661. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6147 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6148 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6149 is no long logged.
6150
615162. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6152 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6153 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6154 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6155 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6156 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6157 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6158
615963. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6160 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6161 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6162 interpreted as octal.
6163
616464. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6165 setting.
6166
616765. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6168 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6169 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6170 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6171 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6172 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6173
617466. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6175 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6176 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6177 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6178
6179 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6180 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6181 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6182 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6183
6184 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6185 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6186 is a bug fix.
6187
6188 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6189 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6190
619167. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6192
619368. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6194 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6195 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6196 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6197
619869. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6199 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6200 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6201 supplied", which is not helpful.
6202
620370. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6204 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6205 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6206
620771. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6208 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6209 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6210 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6211 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6212 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6213 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6214 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6215
621672. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6217 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6218 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6219 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6220 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6221
622273. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6223 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6224 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6225 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6226 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6227 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6228
622974. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6230 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6231 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6232
623375. Added write_rejectlog option.
6234
623576. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6236 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6237 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6238 variables.
6239
624077. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6241
624278. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6243 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6244 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6245 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6246 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6247 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6248 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6249 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6250
625179. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6252 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6253 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6254 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6255 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6256
625780. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6258 Haardt.
6259
626081. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6261 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6262 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6263 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6264 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6265 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6266 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6267 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6268 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6269
6270
6271Exim version 4.30
6272-----------------
6273
6274 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6275 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6276 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6277
6278 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6279 fixed.
6280
6281 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6282 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6283 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6284
6285 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6286 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6287 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6288 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6289 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6290 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6291
6292 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6293 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6294 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6295 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6296 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6297 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6298 the Exim test suite.
6299
6300 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6301 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6302 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6303 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6304
6305 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6306 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6307 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6308 specify it in this variable.
6309
6310 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6311 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6312 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6313 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6314
6315 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6316 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6317 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6318 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6319
6320 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6321 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6322 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6323 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6324 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6325
6326 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6327
632810. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6329 they are logged.
6330
633111. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6332 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6333 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6334 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6335 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6336
633712. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6338 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6339
634013. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6341 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6342 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6343 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6344 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6345
634614. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6347 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6348
634915. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6350 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6351 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6352
635316. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6354 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6355
635617. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6357 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6358
635918. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6360 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6361 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6362
636319. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6364 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6365
636620. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6367 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6368 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6369 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6370
637121. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6372
637322. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6374 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6375 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6376 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6377
637823. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6379
638024. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6381 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6382
638325. Added .include_if_exists.
6384
638526. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6386 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6387 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6388 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6389 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6390 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6391
639227. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6393
639428. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6395 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6396 this.
6397
639829. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6399
640030. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6401 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6402
6403 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6404 550 Sender verify failed
6405
6406 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6407 the final line of the response.
6408
640931. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6410 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6411 all other user lookups.
6412
641332. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6414 delivery time.
6415
641633. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6417 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6418 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6419 result into an int without checking.
6420
642134. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6422 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6423 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6424
642535. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6426 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6427 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6428 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6429
643036. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6431 correctly.
6432
643337. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6434 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6435
643638. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6437 to the empty sender.
6438
643939. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6440 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6441 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6442 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6443 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6444 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6445 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6446 panic log.
6447
644840. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6449 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6450 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6451 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6452 used.
6453
645441. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6455 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6456
645742. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6458 timestamps.
6459
646043. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6461 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6462
646344. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6464
646545. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6466 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6467 logs.
6468
646946. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6470 as soon as it is encountered.
6471
647247. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6473
647448. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6475 rewritten to "<>".
6476
647749. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6478 recognizes a tab character.
6479
648050. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6481 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6482 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6483 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6484
648551. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6486
648752. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6488 crash.
6489
649053. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6491
649254. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6493
649455. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6495 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6496 2822.
6497
649856. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6499 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6500 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6501 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6502 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6503
650457. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6505 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6506
650758. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6508 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6509 list (.included file names were always shown).
6510
651159. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6512 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6513 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6514 root at that time.
6515
651660. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6517 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6518
651961. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6520
652162. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6522
652363. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6524
652564. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6526 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6527 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6528 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6529 failures to open the logs.
6530
653165. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6532 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6533 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6534 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6535 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6536 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6537 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6538
6539
6540Exim version 4.24
6541-----------------
6542
6543 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6544 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6545 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6546 change 4.23/1.
6547
6548 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6549 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6550 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6551
6552 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6553 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6554 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6555
6556 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6557 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6558 causing some misleading effects.
6559
6560 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6561 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6562 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6563
6564 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6565 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6566 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6567 queue-runner function directly.
6568
6569
6570Exim version 4.23
6571-----------------
6572
6573 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6574 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6575
6576 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6577 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6578 was always written to the default place.
6579
6580 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6581 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6582 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6583
6584 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6585
6586 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6587
6588 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6589 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6590 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6591
6592 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6593 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6594 must start.
6595
6596 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6597 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6598 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6599
6600 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6601 command line option is disabled.
6602
6603 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6604 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6605
6606 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6607
6608 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6609
6610 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6611 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6612
661310. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6614
661511. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6616 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6617 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6618 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6619 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6620 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6621
662212. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6623 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6624 timeout.
6625
662613. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6627 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6628
662914. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6630 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6631
663215. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6633 received was valid base64.
6634
663516. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6636 name of the variable that was being set.
6637
663817. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6639
664018. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6641 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6642 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6643 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6644 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6645 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6646
664719. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6648
664920. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6650 nor realm was specified.
6651
665221. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6653 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6654 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6655 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6656
665722. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6658 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6659 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6660
666123. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6662 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6663 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6664
666524. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6666 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6667 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6668 some systems use these upper case variants.
6669
667025. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6671 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6672 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6673 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6674
667526. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6676
667727. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6678 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6679
668028. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6681 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6682 expansion variable.
6683
668429. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6685
668630. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6687 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6688 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6689 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6690
669131. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6692 using it.
6693
669432. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6695 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6696 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6697
669833. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6699 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6700
670134. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6702 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6703 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6704 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6705
670635. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6707 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6708 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6709
671036. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6711
671237. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6713 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6714 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6715 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6716 aborted.
6717
671838. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6719 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6720 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6721
672239. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6723
672440. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6725 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6726
672741. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6728 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6729
673042. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6731 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6732 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6733 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6734 when emails are that large.
6735
6736
6737
6738Exim version 4.22
6739-----------------
6740
6741 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6742 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6743
6744 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6745 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6746 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6747
6748 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6749 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6750 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6751
6752 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6753 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6754 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6755 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6756 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6757
6758 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6759 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6760 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6761 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6762 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6763 ever.
6764
6765 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6766 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6767 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6768 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6769 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6770 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6771 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6772 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6773 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6774 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6775 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6776 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6777 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6778 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6779
6780 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6781 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6782 parameterised it.
6783
6784 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6785 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6786 error should be diagnosed.
6787
6788 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6789 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6790 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6791 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6792 appeared instead of "NULL".
6793
679410. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6795 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6796 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6797 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6798 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6799 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6800 proceeds).
6801
6802 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6803 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6804 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6805
6806
6807Exim version 4.21
6808-----------------
6809
6810 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6811 or receiver verification errors.
6812
6813 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6814 name.
6815
6816 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6817 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6818 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6819 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6820
6821 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6822 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6823 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6824 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6825 shouldn't happen again.
6826
6827 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6828 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6829 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6830
6831 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6832 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6833
6834 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6835
6836 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6837 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6838
6839 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6840 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6841 RFC.
6842
684310. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6844 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6845 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6846
684711. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6848 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6849 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6850 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6851
685212. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6853 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6854 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6855 to define what should happen).
6856
685713. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6858 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6859 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6860
686114. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6862
686315. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6864
686516. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6866 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6867
4c04137d 686817. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
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6869 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6870 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6871 structure in all cases.
6872
6873 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6874 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6875 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6876 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6877
687818. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6879 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6880 domain name.
6881
688219. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6883 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6884
688520. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6886 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6887
688821. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6889 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6890 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6891
689222. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6893 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6894 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6895
689623. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6897 the book and for uniformity.
6898
689924. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6900
690125. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 6902 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
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6903 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6904 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6905 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6906 non-existent command as the problem.
6907
690826. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6909 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6910 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6911
691227. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6913
691428. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6915 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6916 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6917
691829. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6919 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6920 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6921 timestamps using strftime().
6922
692330. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6924 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6925
692632. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6927 transport-time rewrites.
6928
692933. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6930 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6931 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6932 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6933
693434. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6935 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6936
693735. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6938 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6939 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6940 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6941 comma and a space.
6942
694336. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6944 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6945 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6946 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6947 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6948 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6949 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6950
695137. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6952 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6953 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6954 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6955 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6956
695738. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6958 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6959 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6960 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6961 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6962 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6963 remaining text gets split now.
6964
696539. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6966 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6967 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6968 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6969
697040. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6971 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6972 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6973 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6974 $return_path.
6975
697641. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6977 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6978 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6979 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6980 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6981 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6982 passed through if needed.
6983
698442. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6985 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6986 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6987 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6988 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6989 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6990
699143. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6992 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6993 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6994 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6995 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6996
699744. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6998 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6999 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7000 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7001 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7002
700345. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7004 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7005 noticed.
7006
700746. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7008 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7009 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7010 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7011 mayhem of various kinds.
7012
701347. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7014 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 7015 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
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7016 the right test for positive values.
7017
701848. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7019 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7020 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7021 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7022 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7023 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7024 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7025 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7026 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7027 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7028 envelope.
7029
703049. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7031 module.
7032
703350. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7034 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7035 forbidding it.
7036
703751. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7038 the existing equality matching.
7039
704052. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7041 dealing with inode numbers.
7042
704353. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7044 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7045 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7046
704754. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7048 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7049 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7050 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7051 local_scan().
7052
705355. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7054 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7055 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7056 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7057 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7058 relay addresses has also been removed.
7059
706056. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7061
706257. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7063 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7064 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7065
706658. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7067 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7068 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7069 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7070 processing applies to CR:
7071
7072 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7073 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7074
7075 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7076 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7077 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7078 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7079
708059. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7081 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7082 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7083
708460. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7085 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7086 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7087 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7088 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7089 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7090 arisen.
7091
709261. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7093 program routers.
7094
709562. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7096 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7097 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7098 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7099 adds:
7100
7101 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7102
7103 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7104
7105 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7106
710763. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7108 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7109 not considered personal.
7110
711164. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7112
711365. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7114
711566. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7116
711767. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7118 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7119 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7120 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7121 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7122 header lines, and spool format errors.
7123
712468. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7125 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7126 for more flexibility.
7127
712869. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7129 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7130 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7131
713270. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7133 Sabourenkov.
7134
713571. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7136 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7137 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7138 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7139 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7140 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7141 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7142 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7143 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7144
714572. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7146 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7147 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7148 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7149 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7150 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7151 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7152
715373. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7154 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7155 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7156
715774. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7158 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7159 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7160 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7161 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7162 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7163 instead of killing the process with assert().
7164
716575. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7166 than Unicode encoding.
7167
716876. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7169 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7170 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7171 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7172
717377. Added process_log_path.
7174
717578. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7176 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7177
717879. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7179 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7180
718180. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7182 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7183 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7184
718581. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7186 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7187 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7188 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7189 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7190 were applied:
7191
7192 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7193 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7194 as invalid.
7195
719682. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7197 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7198 they will be used during message reception.
7199
7200
7201Exim version 4.20
7202-----------------
7203
7204The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7205
7206****