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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.next
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11JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
12 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
13 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
14 extant use locations.
15
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16Exim version 4.90
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18
19JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
20 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
21 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
22 pairs of long lines into single ones.
23
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24PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
25 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
26
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27JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
28 This permits better logging.
29
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30JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
31 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
32 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
33 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
34 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 35 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 36
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37JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
38 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
39 "exiwhat" output.
40
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41PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
42 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
43 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
44
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45JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
46 than 255 are no longer allowed.
47
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48JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
49 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
50 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
51 client, there is no benefit for these.
52 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
53 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
54 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
55 is used (3.2.4 +).
56
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57PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
58 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
59
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60JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
61 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
62 erroneously found still-pending ones.
63
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64JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
65 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
66
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67JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
68 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
69 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
70 signature and again for transmission.
71
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72JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
73 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 74 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
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76JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
77 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
78 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
79 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
80 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
81 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
82 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
83
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84JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
85 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
86 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 87 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
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89PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
90 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
91 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
92 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
93 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
94 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
95 processing options.
96
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97JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
98 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
99 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
100 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
101 connections.
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103PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
104 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
105 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
106 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
107 versions.
108
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109JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
110 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
111 inaccessible.
112
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113JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
114 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
115 banner-time rejection.
116
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117JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
118 callout/hold.
119
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120PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
121 is the name of a transport.
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122 Fixes bug 2140.
123
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124HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
125
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126JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
127 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
128
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129JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
130 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
131 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
132 during compilation.
133
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134JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
135 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
136 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 137 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
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139JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
140 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
141 initial verify call returned a defer.
142
ad1a76fe 143JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
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144 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
145
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146JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
147 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
148
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149JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
150 if present. Previously it was ignored.
151
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152JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
153 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
154
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155JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
156 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
157 extensible.
158
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159PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
160 Patch provided by Jaroslav Škarvada.
161
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162PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
163 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
164 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
165
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166JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
167 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
168 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
169 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
170
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171HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess where chunked
172 and confused the parent.
173
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174JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
175 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
176
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177JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
178 for log purposes.
179
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180JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
181 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
182 out-of-order delivery.
183
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184JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
185 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
186 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
187 error for the HELO.
188
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189JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
190 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
191 desynchronisation.
192
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193JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
194 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
195 one run was done. Bug 2189.
196
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197JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
198 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
199 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
200 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
201 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
202 message is still "Temporary local problem".
203
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204JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
205 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
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206 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
207
208HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
209 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
210 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
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9427e879 216JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 217 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 218
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219JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
220
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221PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
222 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
223
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224JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
225 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
226
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227JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
228 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
229 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
230 before acknowledging the chunk.
231
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232PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
233 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
234 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
235
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236JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
237 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
238 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
239 should.
240
241JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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242 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
243 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
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bd8fbe36 245JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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246 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
247
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248JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
249 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
250 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
251 body hash calculated value.
252
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253JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
254 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
255 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
256
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257JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
258
259JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
260 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
261
262JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
263 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
264 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
265
266JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
267 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
268 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
269 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
270 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
271 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
272
273JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
274 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
275 past that check, despite the cost.
276
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277JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
278 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
279 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
280
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281PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
282 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
283 TLS library to consume.
284
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285PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
286
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287PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
288
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289JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
290 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
291 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
292 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
293 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
294 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
295 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
296
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297PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
298
299PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
300
301PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
302 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
303 should be warning-free.
304
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305JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
306
307HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
308 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
309
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310HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
311 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
312 general solution here.
313
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314PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
315 already-broken messages in the queue.
316
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317JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
318
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319JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
320
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325JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
326 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 327
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328JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
329 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
330 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
331
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332JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
333 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
334 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
335 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
336 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
337 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
338 if one fails this test.
339 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
340 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
341
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342JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
343 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
344
23bb6982 345JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 346 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 347
0bd1b1ed 348JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 349 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 350
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351JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
352 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
353
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354JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
355 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
356
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357JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
358
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359JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
360 certificate).
361
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362JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
363 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
364 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
365 connection after a verify cache hit.
366 Do not update it with the verify result either.
367
368JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
369 when routing results in more than one destination address.
370
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371JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
372 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
373 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
374 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
375 when the cutthrough connection is made).
376
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377JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
378 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
379
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380JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
381 Previously they were not counted.
382
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383JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
384 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
385 that needed the lookup.
386
4c04137d 387JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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388 distinguished as "(=".
389
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390JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
391 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
392
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393JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
394
395JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
396 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 397
4c04137d 398JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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399 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
400
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401JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
402 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
403 compatible.
404
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405JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
406 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
407 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
408 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
409
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410JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
411
f59aaaaa 412JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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413 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
414 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 415
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416JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
417 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
418 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
419 be lost.
420
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421JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
422 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
423 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
424 itself :(
425
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426JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
427 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
428 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
429
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430JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
431 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
432 options.
433
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434JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
435
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436PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
437 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
438
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439PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
440 are not in the system include path.
441
ad7fc6eb 442JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 443 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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444 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
445 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 446
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447JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
448 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
449 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
450
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451JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
452
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453HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
454 an incoming connection.
455
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456HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
457 to rspamd.
458
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459HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
460 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 461
87cb4a16 462JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 463 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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464
465
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469JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
470 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
471 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
472 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 473
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474TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
475 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
476
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477TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
478 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
479 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
480 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
481 outgoing I= field.
482
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483JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
484 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
485 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
486 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
487 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
488 check on the next write.
489
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490HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
491 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
492 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
493 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
494 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
495
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496JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
497 mime_regex ACL conditions.
498
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499JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
500 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
501 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
502
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503JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
504 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
505 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
506 an authenticate fail is not an error.
507
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508HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
509 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
510
4c04137d 511JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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512 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
513
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514JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
515 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
516 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
517 distinct.
518
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519JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
520
521JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
522
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523JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
524
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525JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
526 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
527
98b98887 528JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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529 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
530
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531JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
532
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533JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
534 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
535
536JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
537
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538JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
539 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
540
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541JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
542
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543JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
544 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 545 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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546 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
547 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
548 they will retry in-clear.
549 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
550 at installation time.
551
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552HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
553 with the $config_file variable.
554
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555JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
556 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
557 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
558 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 559 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 560
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561GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
562 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
563 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
564 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
565 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
566
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567JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
568
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569JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
570 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
571 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
572 list order is no longer honoured.
573
4c04137d 574JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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575 for DKIM processing.
576
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577JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
578 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
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580JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
581 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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582 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
583 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
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585JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
586 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
587
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588JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
589 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
590
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591JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
592 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
593
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594JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
595
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596JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
597 cached by the daemon.
598
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599JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
600 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
601
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602JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
603 keys are given for lookup.
604
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605JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
606 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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607 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
608 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
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610JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
611 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
612 server-side so match that on older versions.
613
07c73177 614JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 615 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 616 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 617
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618JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
619 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
620
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621JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
622 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
623 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 624 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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625 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
626 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
627 initial truncated version.
628
ab9152ff 629JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 630
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631JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
632
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633JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
634 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
635
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636JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
637
bc3c7bb7 638HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 639
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640JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
641 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
642 induced overflows.
643
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644JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
645 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
646 stage.
647
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648JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
649 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
650
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651JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
652 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
653 former class.
654
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655JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
656 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
657 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
658
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659JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
660 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
661 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
662 extraction. Accept either.
663
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668JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
669 expanded.
670
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671JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
672
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673JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
674 it.
675
01a4a5c5 676JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 677 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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678 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
679 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
680
cb1d7830 681JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 682 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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683 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
684
610ff438 685JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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686 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
687 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
688 TLS connections
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690JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
691 sites use this now.
692
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693JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
694 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
695 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
696 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
697 have a dsn_lasthop option.
698
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699JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
700 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 701 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 702
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703JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
704
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705JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
706 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
707
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708JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
709 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
710
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711JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
712 /defer_ok option.
713
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714JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
715 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
716
fd4d8871 717JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 718 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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719 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
720
721JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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722 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
723 specify a port-range.
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725JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
726 timeout value per server.
727
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728JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
729 now have the list separator specified.
730
8a512ed5 731JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 732 option values.
8a512ed5 733
82c0c8ea 734JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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735 under OpenSSL.
736
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737JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
738
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739JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
740 rather than the verbs used.
741
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742JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
743 from 255 to 1024 chars.
744
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745JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
746
cfab9d68 747HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 748 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
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750JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
751 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
752
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753HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
754 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
755
4c04137d 756JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
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758JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
759
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760JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
761 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 762 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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763 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
764
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765JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
766
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767JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
768 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
769
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770JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
771 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
772
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773JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
774
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775JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
776
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777JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
778
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779JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
780 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
781
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782JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
783 added for tls authenticator.
784
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785HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
786
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791TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
792 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
793 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
794 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
795 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
796 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
797 the script parsing/test process like normal.
798
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799TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
800 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
801 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
802 function when detected.
803
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804JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
805 cause callback expansion.
806
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807TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
808 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
809 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
810 instead of bool when processing it.
811
0f06b4f2 812JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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814
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815JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
816
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817JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
818
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819TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
820
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821TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
822 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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824JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
825 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
826 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
827 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 828 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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829 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
830
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831JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
832 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
833 exceeded it.
834
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835JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
836 version 3.3.6 or later.
837
4c04137d 838JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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839 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
840 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 841 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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842 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
843 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
844 option is defined.
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846TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
847 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
848
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849JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
850 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
851 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
852 matches.
853
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854JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
855 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
856 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
857
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858JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
859 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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860
861JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
862 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
863 syntax errors.
864
3394b36a 865JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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866
867JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
868 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
869
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870TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
871 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
872 tarball.
873
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874JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
875
4c04137d 876JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
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877 Bug 1561.
878
879JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
880 output list separator was used.
881
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885TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
886 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
887 return.
1f0ebb98 888
a612424f 889JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 890 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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892JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
893
894TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 895 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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901TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
902
903 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
904 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
905 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
906 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
907 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
908 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
909
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910TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
911 utilities have not been installed.
912
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913JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
914 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
915
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916TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
917 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
918
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919TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
920 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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922 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
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924JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
925
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926TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
927 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
928
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929PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
930 not dns_use_dnssec.
931
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932JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
933
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934TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
935 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
936 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
937
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940 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
941 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
942 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 943 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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945JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
946
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947JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
948 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
949
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950JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
951 failed delivery.
952
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953JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
954
511a6c14 955JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
JH
956
957JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
958 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 959
51c7471d
JH
960JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
961 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
962
3695be34
TL
963TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
964
1e06383a
TL
965JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
966
76146973
JH
967JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
968 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
969
970 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
971 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
972 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
973
8c8b8274
TL
974TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
975 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
976 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
977 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 978
35aba663
JH
979JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
980
8c51eead 981JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
578897ea
JH
982 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
983 lookup).
8c51eead 984
deae092e
HS
985TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
986 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
987 Schlichting.
35aba663 988
fd3b6a4a 989JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 990 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 991
8d91c6dc
LT
992TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
993 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
994
2b4a568d
JH
995JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
996
d2af03f4
HS
997TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
998 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
999 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1000
9d1c15ef
JH
1001JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1002 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1003
44662487
JH
1004JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1005 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
6a8a60e0
JH
1006 hosts_request_ocsp.
1007
ed3bba5f 1008JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1009 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1010 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1011
8ccd00b1
JH
1012JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1013
8ded8589
TL
1014TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1015 Christian Aistleitner.
1016
f2de3a33
JH
1017JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1018
6eb02f88
TL
1019TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1020 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1021
00bff6f6
JH
1022JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1023 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1024
071c51f7
JH
1025JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1026 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1027
a6d4c44e
TF
1028TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1029 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1030
3ae173e7
ACK
1031TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1032 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1033
c13d09b8
TL
1034TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1035 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1036 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1037
0df4ab80
JH
1038JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1039
66be95e0
PP
1040PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1041 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1042 Jasper Wallace.
1043
1bd0d12b
JH
1044JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1045
0de7239e
TL
1046TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1047 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1048 CVE-2014-2972
1049
fd3b6a4a 1050
2c422e6f 1051Exim version 4.82
98a90c36
PP
1052-----------------
1053
1054PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1055
12f69989
PP
1056PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1057 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1058
54c90be1
PP
1059PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1060 by GnuTLS.
1061
1f4a55da
PP
1062PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1063 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1064 routines.
1065
13363eba 1066PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1067
66645890 1068PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
e402235f
PP
1069 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1070 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1071 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1072 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1073
a3fb9793 1074PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
PP
1075 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1076 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1077 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1078 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1079 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1080
d27f98fe 1081TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1082
6822b909
TL
1083TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1084
e7568d51
TL
1085TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1086 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1087
ae0e32ee 1088TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1089 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1090 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
TL
1091
1092TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1093
e2658fff
TL
1094TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1095
83712b39
TL
1096TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1097 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1098
976b7e9f
JH
1099JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1100
be4a1376
JH
1101JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1102
ec4b68e5
PP
1103PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1104
d7148a07
NM
1105NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1106 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1107
585121e2 1108JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1109
2519e60d
TL
1110PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1111 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1112 function.
a5f239e4 1113
13d08c90
PP
1114PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1115 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1116
bef3ea7f
JH
1117JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1118 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1119 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1120
846726c5
JH
1121JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1122
3a796370
JH
1123JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1124
ea722490 1125JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1126 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1127
b1b05573
JH
1128JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1129 Bugzilla 884.
1130
362145b5
JH
1131JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1132 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1133
3c0a92dc
JH
1134JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1135 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1136
6d7c6175
PP
1137PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1138 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1139 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1140
6f123593
JH
1141JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1142 authenticators.
1143
c8e2fc1e
JH
1144JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1145 for control.
1146
005ac57f
PP
1147PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1148
3f1df0e3
PP
1149PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1150 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1151 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1152 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1153
67bd1ab3
TF
1154TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1155
1156 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1157 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1158 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1159 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1160 the retry rules.
1161
1162 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1163 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1164 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1165
1166 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1167 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1168 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1169 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1170
1ddeb334
TF
1171 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1172 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1173 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1174 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1175 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1176 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1177 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1178
1179 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1180 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1181
326cdc37
TF
1182TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1183
1184 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1185
1186 Resent-From: f
1187
1188 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1189 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1190 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1191 username as equal to the username.
1192
1193 This change corrects that bug.
1194
f62514b3
GF
1195GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1196 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1197 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1198
eb505532
TF
1199TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1200
14c7b357
PP
1201PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1202 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1203 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1204 NULL dereference and crash.
1205
94eaf700
PP
1206JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1207
6f5a440a
PP
1208PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1209 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1210 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1211
514ee161
SC
1212SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1213
fd98a5c6
JH
1214JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1215 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1216 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1217 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1218 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1219 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1220 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1221 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1222 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1223 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1224 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1225
035c7f1e
PP
1226PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1227 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1228
ff284120
PP
1229PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1230 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1231 Bugzilla 880.
1232
26e72755
PP
1233PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1234 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1235 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1236 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1237 an empty string is now equivalent.
1238
0fbd9bff
PP
1239PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1240 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1241 not performing validation itself.
1242
700d22f3
PP
1243PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1244 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1245
fcc8e047
JH
1246JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1247 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1248
4c04137d 1249TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1250
8c020188
PP
1251PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1252 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1253 other false fix of the same issue.
1254 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1255 Bugzilla 1363.
1256
d13cdd30
PP
1257PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1258 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1259
e2fbf4a2
PP
1260PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1261 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1262 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1263
f4c1088b
PP
1264PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1265 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1266 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1267
c5c2182f
PP
1268TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1269
73431ca9
JH
1270JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1271
2d07a215
TL
1272TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1273 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1274
a30a8861
TL
1275TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1276 Alexander Miroch.
1277
33382dd9
TL
1278TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1279 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1280 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1281 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1282 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1283
046172e6
TL
1284TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1285 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1286
581d7bee 1287TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1288 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1289 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1290
1291TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1292 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1293 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1294 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1295
237b2cf2
TL
1296TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1297
9fc5a352
TL
1298TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1299 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1300 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1301
b10e4ec2
TL
1302TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1303
e2cebd74
TL
1304TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1305 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1306 interaction.
1307
1308TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1309 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1310
2519e60d
TL
1311TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1312 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1313
e78e6ecf 1314
4263f395
PP
1315Exim version 4.80.1
1316-------------------
1317
1318PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1319 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1320 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1321
ea722490 1322
b1770b6e 1323Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1324-----------------
1325
1326PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1327 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1328 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1329
23c7e742
NM
1330NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1331
b322aac8
NM
1332NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1333 improved.
1334
4a891427
NM
1335NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1336
c1e794ba 1337PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1338
97753960
PP
1339PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1340
1341PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1342 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1343
df6303fa
PP
1344PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1345 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1346
7e6a8985
PP
1347PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1348 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1349
f1e05cc7 1350PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1351 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1352 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1353
4c287009
PP
1354PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1355
b98bb9ac
PP
1356PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1357 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1358
4a6a987a
PP
1359PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1360
c45dd180 1361PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1362
7db8d074
PP
1363PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1364 non-compliant senders.
1365 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1366
eae0036b 1367NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1368 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1369 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1370
dec5017e
PP
1371PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1372 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1373 in spool file corruption.
1374
c80c5570
PP
1375PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1376 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1377 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1378 "Got SSL error 2".
1379
076b11e2
PP
1380TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1381 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1382 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1383
5407bfff
JH
1384JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1385 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1386
9e45c72b
PP
1387JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1388
e74376d8
PP
1389PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1390 diagnostics.
1391 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1392
4c04137d 1393PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1394 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1395 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1396
7be682ca
PP
1397PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1398 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1399 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1400 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1401
ef840681
PP
1402PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1403 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1404
5bfb4cdf
PP
1405PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1406 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1407 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1408 resolver implementation change.
1409
c6e95d22
PP
1410PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1411 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1412
9cbad13b
PP
1413PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1414
9ee44efb
PP
1415PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1416
6a6084f8
PP
1417PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1418 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1419
12dd53c7
PP
1420PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1421 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1422
9e45c72b 1423JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1424 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1425
17c76198
PP
1426PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1427 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1428 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1429 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1430 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1431
53947857 1432PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1433
eae0036b 1434PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1435 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1436 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1437
9e45c72b 1438JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1439
7390e768
PP
1440PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1441 read-only, out of scope).
1442 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1443
08488c86
PP
1444PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1445 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1446 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1447 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1448
6475bd82
PP
1449PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1450
81f91683
PP
1451PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1452 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1453 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1454 real issues in debug logging.
1455
5779e6aa
PP
1456PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1457 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1458
3375e053
PP
1459PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1460 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1461 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1462
1463PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1464 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1465 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1466 problems.
3375e053 1467
9d26b8c0
PP
1468PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1469 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1470
57eb9e91 1471PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1472 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1473 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1474 needs to override this, it can.
1475
16880d1a
PP
1476PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1477 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1478 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1479
a799883d
PP
1480PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1481 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1482 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1483 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1484
3ecab157 1485PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1486
0599f9cf 1487
867fcbf5
PP
1488Exim version 4.77
1489-----------------
1490
1491PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1492 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1493
f1a29782
TF
1494TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1495
ab42bd23
TK
1496TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1497 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1498
0ca0cf52
TF
1499TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1500 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1501
921b12ca
TF
1502TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1503 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1504 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1505
1506 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1507 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1508 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1509 not safe for signals.
1510
1511 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1512 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1513 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1514 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1515 exiwhat.
1516
c99ce5c9
TF
1517TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1518
1519 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1520 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1521 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1522 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1523 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1524
1525 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1526 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1527 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1528 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1529 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1530 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1531
1532 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1533 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1534 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1535 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1536
1537 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1538 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1539 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1540 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1541
1542 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1543 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1544 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1545 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1546 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1547 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1548 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1549 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1550 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1551
1552 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1553 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1554 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1555 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1556
1557 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1558 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1559 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1560 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1561 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1562 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1563 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1564 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1565 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1566 details in the main documentation.
1567
3634fc25
TF
1568TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1569
792e8a19
TF
1570TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1571
5901f0ab
TF
1572TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1573 repository when doing development or release builds.
1574
7f2a2a43
PP
1575PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1576 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1577
061b7ebd
PP
1578PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1579 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1580 Bugzilla 97.
1581
e12f8c32
PP
1582PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1583
9e949f00 1584PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1585 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1586
1587PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1588 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1589
555ae6af 1590PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1591 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1592
1593PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1594 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1595
6f7fe114
PP
1596PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1597 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1598
c566dd90
PP
1599PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1600 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1601 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1602 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1603
d6cc7c78 1604PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1605 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1606 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1607
0d0e4455
PP
1608PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1609
3399bb60 1610PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1611
1612PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1613 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1614
0ca0cf52 1615
10906672
PP
1616Exim version 4.76
1617-----------------
1618
1619PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1620
754a0503
PP
1621PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1622 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1623
c0c7b2da
PP
1624PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1625
e97d1f08
PP
1626PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1627
084c1d8c
PP
1628PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1629 Bugzilla 1098.
1630
4e7ee012
PP
1631PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1632 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1633
c8d52a00
PP
1634TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1635 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1636
54e7ce4a
PP
1637PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1638 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1639
5ee6f336
PP
1640PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1641 Bugzilla 1104.
1642
c8d52a00 1643TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1644 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1645
1646TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1647 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1648 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1649 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1650
1651PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1652 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1653
10906672 1654
aa097c4c
NM
1655Exim version 4.75
1656-----------------
1657
4c04137d 1658NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1659 Bugzilla 1073
1660
7f3d9eff
TF
1661TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1662 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1663 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1664
159f52d2
TF
1665TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1666 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1667
0cc9542a
PP
1668PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1669 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1670 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1671
f7274286
PP
1672PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1673 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1674
7b797365
PP
1675PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1676 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1677
caacae52
NM
1678NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1679 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1680
09dcaba9
NM
1681NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1682 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1683
bc19a55b
PP
1684PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1685 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1686
bd4c9759
NM
1687NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1688 Fixes bug 943.
1689
b72aab72
PP
1690PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1691 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1692
2fe76745
PP
1693PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1694 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1695
76aa570c
PP
1696PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1697 SQL string expansion failure details.
1698 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1699
f1e5fef5
PP
1700PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1701 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1702
4d805ee9
PP
1703PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1704 extern declarations in function scope.
1705 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1706
cd59ab18
PP
1707PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1708 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1709 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1710 a kernel bug).
1711
332f5cf3
PP
1712PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1713 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1714
29cfeb94
PP
1715PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1716 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1717
660242ad
PP
1718PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1719 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1720
bc4bc4c5
PP
1721PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1722 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1723
2e64baa9
NM
1724NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1725 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1726 Dennis Davis.
1727
4c04137d 1728PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 1729
6bac1a9a
PP
1730PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1731
552193f0
NM
1732NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1733 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1734
1b587e48
TF
1735TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1736 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1737
aa097c4c 1738
8c07b69f
TF
1739Exim version 4.74
1740-----------------
1741
1742TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1743 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1744
c0ea85ab
TF
1745TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1746 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1747
0761d44e
TF
1748TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1749
0a349494
PP
1750DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1751 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1752 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1753
1754PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1755 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1756 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1757
fea24b2e
PP
1758PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1759 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1760 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1761 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1762
6545de78
PP
1763PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1764 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1765 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1766 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1767
1670ef10
PP
1768PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1769 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1770 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1771 arbitrary files.
1772
c0886197
PP
1773PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1774 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1775
b7487bce
PP
1776PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1777 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1778 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1779 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1780 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1781
8c07b69f 1782
97fd1e48 1783Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1784-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1785
1786PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1787 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1788 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1789
6901c596
PP
1790PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1791 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1792
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1793JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1794
77bb000f
PP
1795PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1796
a29e5231
PP
1797PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1798
ec5a0394 1799PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1800
55c75993
PP
1801PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1802
453a6645 1803PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1804 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1805 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1806 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1807
8544e77a
PP
1808PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1809 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1810 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1811 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1812 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1813
83e029d5
PP
1814PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1815
ed7f7860
PP
1816PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1817
7d9f747b
PP
1818PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1819
4b2241d2
PP
1820PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1821
10385c15
PP
1822PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1823
dbc4b90d
PP
1824PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1825
532be449
PP
1826PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1827
6a8de854 1828PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1829 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1830 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1831
5dc43717
JJ
1832JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1833
1834JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1835 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1836
3346ab01
PP
1837PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1838 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1839
491fab4c
PP
1840PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1841 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1842 Notification from John Horne.
1843
13eb9497
PP
1844PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1845 compatible.
1846
1847PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1848 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1849 it normally works.
1850
7f36d675
DW
1851DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1852 access.
1853
c1d94452
DW
1854DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1855 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1856 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1857
e2f5dc15
DW
1858DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1859 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1860 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1861 configuration file.
1862
cd25e41d
DW
1863DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1864 option (effectively making it always true).
1865
261dc43e
DW
1866DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1867 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1868
fa32850b
DW
1869DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1870 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1871
79d4bc3d
PP
1872PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1873 run-time user, instead of root.
1874
43236f35 1875PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1876 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1877
fb08281f
DW
1878DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1879 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1880 arguments.
3346ab01 1881
74935b98
DW
1882DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1883 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1884 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1885
90b6341f
DW
1886DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1887
57730b52
ML
1888NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1889
66581d1e 1890
465e92cf
JJ
1891Exim version 4.72
1892-----------------
1893
453a6645
PP
1894JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1895 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1896 typos
465e92cf 1897
453a6645
PP
1898JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1899 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1900 (Finput)
edae0343 1901
9bd3e22c
NM
1902NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1903 Patch from Alain Williams
1904
bb576ff7
NM
1905NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1906
5a1a5845
NM
1907NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1908 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1909
981a9fad
NM
1910NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1911 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1912
7fc497ee
NM
1913NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1914
1a41defa
JJ
1915JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1916
a466095c 1917NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1918 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1919
94a6bd0b
NM
1920TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1921
1922TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1923
1924MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1925 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1926 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1927
c1b141a8
NM
1928NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1929 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1930
b26eacf1 1931NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
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1932 Patch by Simon Arlott
1933
179c5980 1934PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1935 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1936
9bd3e22c 1937
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1938Exim version 4.71
1939-----------------
1940
7d9f747b 1941TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1942
f013fb92
NM
1943NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1944
0eb8eedd
NM
1945NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1946
663ee6d9
NM
1947NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1948
177ebd9b
NM
1949NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1950
7c6d71af 1951
210f147e
NM
1952Exim version 4.70
1953-----------------
1954
cdd3bb85 1955TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1956 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
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TK
1957
1958TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1959 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1960 Hirsch).
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1961
1962TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1963 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1964 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
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1965
1966TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1967 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1968
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1969NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1970 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1971 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1972 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1973
deafd5b3
NM
1974NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1975 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1976 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1977
089793a4
TF
1978TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1979
5f16ca82
TF
1980TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1981
dae9d94e 1982NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1983 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1984
7d9f747b 1985NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1986
06864c44
TF
1987TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1988 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1989 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1990 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1991
65a7d8c3 1992NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1993 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1994
23510047 1995TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1996
7d9f747b 1997NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1998
7d8eec3a 1999NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2000 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2001
89dec7b6
TF
2002TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2003 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2004
a99de90c
TF
2005TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2006 that they are available at delivery time.
2007
e2803e40
TF
2008TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2009
7199e1ee
TF
2010TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2011 incoming_port log selectors.
2012
e276e04b
TF
2013TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2014 setting expands to an empty string.
2015
ce552449 2016NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2017 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2018
e765a0f1 2019NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2020 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2021
4f054c63 2022NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2023 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2024
7d9f747b
PP
2025NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2026 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2027
7d9f747b
PP
2028NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2029 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2030
b52bc06e 2031NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2032 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2033
447de4b0
NM
2034NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2035
4c69d561 2036NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2037 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2038
d5c39246 2039NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2040 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2041
0b23848a
TK
2042TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2043
8f3414a1 2044NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2045 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2046
fb6f955d
NM
2047NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2048
2049NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2050
7d9f747b
PP
2051NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2052 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2053
7d9f747b
PP
2054NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2055 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2056
7d9f747b
PP
2057NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2058 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2059
7d9f747b
PP
2060NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2061 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2062
7d9f747b
PP
2063NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2064 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2065
7d9f747b
PP
2066NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2067 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2068
7d9f747b
PP
2069NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2070 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2071
7d9f747b 2072NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2073 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2074
7d9f747b 2075NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2076
7d9f747b
PP
2077NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2078 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2079
7d9f747b 2080NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2081
7d9f747b 2082NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2083
7d9f747b 2084NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2085
7d9f747b 2086NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2087
17792b53 2088NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2089 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2090
7d9f747b
PP
2091NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2092 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2093
91576cec 2094NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2095 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2096
7d9f747b
PP
2097NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2098 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2099
7d9f747b 2100NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2101
7d9f747b 2102NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2103
7d9f747b 2104NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2105
7d9f747b 2106NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2107
deafd5b3 2108
47db1125
NM
2109Exim version 4.69
2110-----------------
2111
4b3504d0
TK
2112TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2113 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2114 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2115
2116 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2117 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2118 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2119 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2120 build errors in sieve.c.
2121
81ea09ca
NM
2122NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2123 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2124 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2125
f13cddcb
SC
2126SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2127
7d9f747b 2128NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2129
7d9f747b 2130NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2131
7d9f747b 2132NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2133
2134
eb4c0de6
PH
2135Exim version 4.68
2136-----------------
2137
2138PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2139
6a3bceb1
PH
2140PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2141 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2142 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2143 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2144 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2145 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2146 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2147 for iplsearch lookups.
2148
2149 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2150 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2151 previously such lookups could never work.
2152
4c04137d 2153 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2154 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2155 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2156
2e30fa9d
TK
2157TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2158 version.
2159
0806a9c5
MH
2160MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2161 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2162 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2163 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2164 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2165 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2166
ae276964
TK
2167TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2168 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2169
0f2cbd1b
MH
2170MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2171 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2172 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2173 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2174 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2175 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2176
2b85bce7
PH
2177PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2178 local_scan API.
2179
93655c46
PH
2180PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2181
6c512171
PH
2182PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2183 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2184 encrypted.
2185
2186PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2187 by clients under certain conditions.
2188
aa6dc513
PH
2189PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2190 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2191
a96603a0
PH
2192PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2193
8f240103
PH
2194PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2195 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2196
2197PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2198
d677b2f2
PH
2199PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2200
d52120f2
PH
2201PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2202
64f2600a
PH
2203PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2204 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2205
8669f003
PH
2206PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2207
a4dc33a8
PH
2208PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2209 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2210
d6a60c0f
PH
2211PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2212
8f128379
PH
2213PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2214
8932dffe
PH
2215PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2216 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2217 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2218 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2219
ddea74fa 2220PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2221 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2222 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2223
ddea74fa 2224PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2225 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2226
ddea74fa
PH
2227PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2228
ce9f225c
PH
2229PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2230
19897d52
PH
2231PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2232
bc64a74d
PH
2233PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2234 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2235 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2236
eb4c0de6 2237
b4ed4da0
PH
2238Exim version 4.67
2239-----------------
2240
22ad45c9
MH
2241MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2242 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2243 Jan Srzednicki.
2244
b4ed4da0
PH
2245PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2246 issue a MAIL command.
2247
431b7361
PH
2248PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2249
2250 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2251
2252 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2253 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2254 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2255 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2256 item. This has been fixed.
2257
2258PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2259 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2260
83da1223
PH
2261PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2262 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2263
54fc8428
PH
2264PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2265 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2266 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2267
34c5e8dd
SC
2268SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2269
bbe15da8
PH
2270PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2271 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2272 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2273 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2274 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2275
0e8a9471
MH
2276MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2277 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2278 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2279
f0872424
PH
2280PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2281 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2282 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2283 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2284
b01dd148
PH
2285PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2286
6bf342e1
PH
2287PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2288
273f34d0
PH
2289PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2290 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2291 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2292 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2293 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2294
cf8b11a5
PH
2295PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2296
41c7c167
PH
2297PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2298 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2299 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2300 values).
2301
9c57cbc0
PH
2302PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2303
f3f065bb
PH
2304PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2305
047bdd8c
PH
2306PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2307
0ce9abe6
PH
2308PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2309
0e22dfd1
PH
2310PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2311
4c590bd1
PH
2312PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2313 no_callout_flush is set.
2314
09945f1e
PH
2315PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2316 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2317 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2318 fixed.
2319
c51b8e75
PH
2320PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2321
e28326d8 2322PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2323 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2324 other ACL rejections are.
2325
75b1493f
PH
2326PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2327 with slight modification.
2328
7c5214ec
PH
2329PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2330 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2331
4311097e
PH
2332PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2333 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2334 connection.
2335
29f89cad
PH
2336PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2337 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2338
5e687460
SC
2339SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2340
c3611384
PH
2341PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2342 expansion side effects.
2343
5a11a7b4
PH
2344PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2345 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2346 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2347 be the same.
2348
0e20aff9
MH
2349MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2350 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2351 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2352
ca86f471
PH
2353PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2354 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2355 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2356 were accidentally chopped off.
2357
a14e5636
PH
2358PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2359 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2360 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2361 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2362 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2363 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2364 pipelining has not been advertised.
2365
ec95d1a6
PH
2366PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2367
42855d71
PH
2368PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2369 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2370 This has been fixed.
2371
57c2c631
PH
2372PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2373 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2374 reported on Solaris.
2375
58c01c94
PH
2376PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2377 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2378 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2379 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2380 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2381 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2382 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2383
dee5a20a
PH
2384PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2385 cpus.
2386
d2ee6114
PH
2387PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2388
b2d5182b
PH
2389PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2390
79749a79
PH
2391PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2392 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2393 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2394 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2395 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2396 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2397
c456d9bb
PH
2398PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2399 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2400 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2401 host_all_ignored option.
2402
cd9868ec
PH
2403PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2404 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2405 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2406 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2407 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2408 is what is supposed to happen).
2409
ebeaf996
PH
2410PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2411 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2412 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2413 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2414 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2415 uses the Exim user.
2416
2679d413
PH
2417PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2418 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2419 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2420 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2421 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2422 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2423 users.
2424
84024b72
PH
2425PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2426
8005d38e
SC
2427SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2428 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2429 (Jez Hancock).
2430 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2431 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2432
3298c6c6
SC
2433SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2434
a43a27c5
PH
2435PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2436
58eb016e 2437PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2438 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2439 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2440 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2441 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2442 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2443 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2444 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2445 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2446 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2447 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2448
b43a74ea
PH
2449PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2450 advertised in response to EHLO.
2451
b4ed4da0 2452
5dd1517f
PH
2453Exim version 4.66
2454-----------------
2455
2456PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2457 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2458
2459 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2460 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2461
2462 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2463 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2464 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2465
2466 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2467 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2468 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2469 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2470 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2471
2472
93cfa765
TK
2473Exim version 4.65
2474-----------------
2475
2476TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2477 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2478 versions. (#438)
2479
d6066548
MH
2480MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2481 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2482 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2483
4362ff0d
PH
2484PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2485 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2486 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2487 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2488 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2489 rather than extend the field.
2490
93cfa765 2491
944e9e9c
TF
2492Exim version 4.64
2493-----------------
aa41d2de 2494
21d74bd9
TK
2495TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2496 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2497 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2498 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2499 these files.
2500
2501TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2502 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2503 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2504
2505TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2506 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2507 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2508
2509TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2510 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2511 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2512 in the field name.
2513
2b1c6e3a
PH
2514PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2515 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2516 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2517 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2518 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2519 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2520 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2521 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2522 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2523 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2524 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2525
1f872c80
PH
2526PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2527 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2528
2529PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2530 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2531 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2532 ignores EPIPE as well.
2533
d203e649
PH
2534PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2535 (quoted-printable decoding).
2536
cc2ed8f7 2537PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2538 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2539
ddfcd446
PH
2540PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2541
d45b1de8
PH
2542PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2543
2544PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2545
38a0a95f 2546PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2547 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2548
a2405d83
JJ
2549JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2550 in 4.64-PH/09.
2551
2552JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2553 miscellaneous code fixes
2554
6ea85e9a
PH
2555PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2556 rejections.
2557
26da7e20
PH
2558PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2559 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2560 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2561 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2562 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2563 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2564 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2565 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2566
14aa5a05 2567PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2568 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2569 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2570 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2571 function.
2572 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2573 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2574 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2575 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2576 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2577 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2578 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2579 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2580 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2581
ff75a1f7
PH
2582PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2583 decoding.
2584
e6f6568e
PH
2585PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2586 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2587 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2588 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2589 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2590 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2591 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2592 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2593
d6f6e0dc
PH
2594PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2595 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2596 list.
2597
322050c2
PH
2598PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2599 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2600 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2601 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2602 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2603 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2604 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2605 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2606 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2607 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2608 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2609 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2610 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2611
08955dd3
PH
2612PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2613 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2614 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2615 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2616 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2617 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2618 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2619
1eccaa59
PH
2620PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2621 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2622 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2623 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2624 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2625 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2626 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2627 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2628 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2629 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2630
602e59e5
PH
2631PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2632 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2633 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2634 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2635 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2636
411ef850
PH
2637PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2638 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2639 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2640 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2641 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2642 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2643 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2644
7befa435
PH
2645PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2646 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2647 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2648 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2649 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2650 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2651 been verified.
2652
48da4259 2653PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2654 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2655 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2656 and authorization.)
2657
48da4259
PH
2658PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2659 if any retry times were supplied.
2660
d1d5595c
PH
2661PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2662 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2663 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2664
0ef732d9
PH
2665PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2666
328895cc
PH
2667PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2668
fd700877
PH
2669PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2670 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2671 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2672 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2673 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2674 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2675
8dce1a6f
PH
2676PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2677 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2678
17af4a17
PH
2679PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2680 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2681 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2682
2683PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2684 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2685 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2686 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2687 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2688 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2689 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2690 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2691 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2692
2693 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2694 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2695 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2696 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2697 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2698 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2699 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2700 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2701 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2702
2703 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2704 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2705 hammering the server.
2706
c1114884
PH
2707PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2708 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2709
7a0743eb
PH
2710PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2711
0d85fa3f
PH
2712PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2713 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2714 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2715
1bf43b78
PH
2716PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2717 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2718 one case where this was not true.
2719
520de300
PH
2720PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2721 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2722 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2723 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2724 fails.
2725
48c7f9e2
PH
2726PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2727 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2728 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2729 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 2730 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
2731 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2732 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2733 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2734 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2735 smtp transport.
2736
99ea1c86
PH
2737PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2738 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2739 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2740 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2741
a2042e78
PH
2742PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2743 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2744
4fbcfc2e
PH
2745PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2746 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2747 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2748
aa41d2de
PH
2749PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2750
af561417
PH
2751PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2752
3cc66b45
PH
2753PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2754
194cc0e4
PH
2755PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2756 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2757 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2758 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2759
a401ddaa
PH
2760PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2761 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2762
4e88a19f
PH
2763PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2764 be meaningful with "accept".
2765
d7d7b289
SC
2766SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2767 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2768
2769SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2770 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2771 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2772
2773SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2774 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2775 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2776 there is data to show.
2777 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2778
2779SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2780 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2781 as well as the number of messages.
2782
2783SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2784 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2785 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2786
2787SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2788 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2789 have a flag are now skipped.
2790
2791SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2792 Added the -emptyok flag.
2793
2794SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2795 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2796
0ea2a468
JJ
2797JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2798 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 2799 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
2800
2801JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2802 match 4.64-PH/13
2803
2804JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2805 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2806
2807JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2808
2809JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2810 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2811
8a10f5a4
PH
2812PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2813
30e18802
PH
2814PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2815 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2816 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2817 contravention of the specifications.
2818
55728a4f
PH
2819PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2820 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2821 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2822
d7837193
PH
2823PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2824 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2825 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2826
87054a31
PH
2827PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2828
ea2c01d2
MH
2829MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2830 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2831 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2832 some point in the past.
2833
e4fa6968
PH
2834PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2835 transport during callout processing was broken.
2836
56f5d9bd
PH
2837PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2838 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2839
922e1c28
PH
2840PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2841 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2842
21eb6e72
PH
2843PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2844 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2845
a0540757
PH
2846PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2847
944e9e9c 2848
478be7b0
SC
2849Exim version 4.63
2850-----------------
2851
2852SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2853 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2854
2855SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2856 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2857 there is data to show.
2858 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2859
2860SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2861 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2862
2b965a65
TF
2863TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2864 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2865
45b91596
PH
2866TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2867 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2868
c59f5781
TF
2869TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2870 submissions from trusted users.
2871
90fc3069
TF
2872TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2873 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2874
6083aca0
TF
2875TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2876 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2877 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2878 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2879 there is now a framework to start from.
2880
765b530f
PH
2881PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2882 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2883 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2884
4e167a8c
PH
2885PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2886
4608d683
PH
2887PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2888
b8dc3e4a
PH
2889PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2890
5418e93b
PH
2891PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2892 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2893 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2894
b4a9bda2
PH
2895PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2896 libradius.
2897
45b91596
PH
2898PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2899 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2900 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2901
5547e2c5
PH
2902PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2903 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2904 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2905 its arguments.
2906
dbcef0ea
PH
2907PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2908 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2909 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2910 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2911 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2912
25257489
PH
2913PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2914 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2915
c816d124
PH
2916PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2917
a9ccd69a
PH
2918PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2919 operations in malware.c.
2920
75fa1910
PH
2921PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2922 signatures.
2923
a7d7aa58
PH
2924PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2925 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2926 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2927 all.
2928
42119b09
PH
2929PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2930 statements to "add_header".
2931
41609df5
PH
2932PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2933 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2934
a5bd321b
PH
2935PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2936 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2937 latter.
2938
e85a7ad5 2939PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2940 so that it is now:
2941
e85a7ad5
PH
2942 ${if or { \
2943 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2944 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2945 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2946 }{no}{yes}}
2947
e85a7ad5
PH
2948 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2949 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2950
d8fe1c03
PH
2951PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2952 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2953
16282d2b
PH
2954PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2955 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2956 any possible encoding problems.
2957
35d40a98
PH
2958PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2959 but not after initializing Perl.
2960
034d99ab
PH
2961PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2962 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2963 apparently, which is not desirable.
2964
6ec97b1b
PH
2965PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2966 queries.
2967
e22ca4ac
JJ
2968JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2969 --not options
2970
2971JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2972
33d73e3b
PH
2973PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2974 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2975 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2976 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2977
9ecb03f3
PH
2978PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2979 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2980 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2981
084efe8d
PH
2982PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2983 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2984 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2985 0.12.
2986
366fc9f0
PH
2987PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2988 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2989 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2990 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2991 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2992
c59f5781 2993
c887c79e
TF
2994Exim version 4.62
2995-----------------
2996
2997TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2998 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2999
1cce3af8
PH
3000PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3001 patch).
3002
afb3eaaf
PH
3003PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3004 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3005 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3006 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3007 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3008 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3009 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3010 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3011 451 error is used.
3012
e173618b
PH
3013PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3014
dd16e114
PH
3015PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3016 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3017 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3018
f7fd3850
PH
3019PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3020 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3021 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3022 odd errors.
3023
d87df92c
PH
3024PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3025 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3026
7e9f683d
PH
3027PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3028 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3029 option (which defaults to 0600).
3030
bfad5236
PH
3031PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3032
01c490df
PH
3033PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3034 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3035 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3036 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3037 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3038 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3039 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3040
d6629cdc
PH
3041PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3042
1cce3af8 3043
214e2000
PH
3044Exim version 4.61
3045-----------------
3046
3047PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3048 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3049 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3050 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3051 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3052 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3053 addresses as local.
3054
f9daeae0
PH
3055PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3056 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3057
7e66e54d
PH
3058PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3059
c8ea1597
PH
3060PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3061 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3062 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3063 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3064 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3065 grumble.
3066
911f6fde
PH
3067PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3068 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3069
47ca6d6c
PH
3070PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3071 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3072 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3073 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3074 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3075
ed0e9820
PH
3076PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3077 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3078 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3079 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3080
eff37e47
PH
3081PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3082 be the same on different OS.
3083
1921d2ea
PH
3084PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3085 testing.
3086
b3f69ca8
JJ
3087JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3088 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3089
3090JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3091 in 4.61-PH/06
3092
424a1c63
PH
3093PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3094 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3095 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3096 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3097 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3098 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3099 bounce message.
3100
7a100415
PH
3101PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3102 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3103 when Exim was called.
3104
19b9dc85
PH
3105PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3106 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3107
309bd837
PH
3108PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3109 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3110 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3111 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3112
59e82a2a
PH
3113PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3114 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3115 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3116 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3117 changes:
3118
3119 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3120 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3121 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3122
3123 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3124 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3125 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3126
9edc04ce
PH
3127PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3128 feature).
3129
1349e1e5
PH
3130PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3131 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3132 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3133 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3134 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3135 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3136 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3137 values from the SRV records were lost.
3138
ea49d0e1
PH
3139PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3140 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3141 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3142
064a94c9
PH
3143PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3144 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3145 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3146
727071f8
PH
3147PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3148 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3149 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3150 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3151 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3152 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3153 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3154 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3155 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3156 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3157
f78eb7c6
PH
3158PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3159 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3160 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3161
21c28500
PH
3162PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3163 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3164
3165PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3166 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3167 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3168 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3169 is given.
3170
1688f43b
PH
3171PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3172 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3173 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3174
3175PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3176 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3177 PH/23 above applies.
3178
9675b384
PH
3179PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3180 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3181 (for which there is an explicit test).
3182
6a3f1455
PH
3183PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3184
dac79d3e
PH
3185PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3186 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3187 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3188 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3189 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3190
5977a0b3
PH
3191PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3192 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3193 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3194 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3195
c91535f3
PH
3196PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3197 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3198 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3199
0d46a8c8
PH
3200PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3201
278c6e6c
PH
3202PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3203
2cbb4081
PH
3204PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3205 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3206 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3207
3eef829e
PH
3208PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3209 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3210 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3211 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3212 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3213
1ab95fa6
PH
3214PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3215 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3216 the message gets confusing).
3217
230205fc
PH
3218PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3219 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3220 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3221 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3222
75e0e026
PH
3223PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3224 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3225 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3226 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3227 same order.
3228
3229PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3230 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3231 the different processes.
3232
145396a6
PH
3233PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3234
3cd34f13
PH
3235PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3236
11121d3d
JJ
3237JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3238 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3239
3240JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3241 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3242
3243JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3244 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3245 messages matching specified criteria.
3246
8def5aaf
PH
3247PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3248
929ba01c
PH
3249PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3250 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3251
2632889e
PH
3252PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3253 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3254 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3255 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3256 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3257 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3258 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3259 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3260 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3261 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3262
944a9c55
PH
3263PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3264 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3265 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3266
4a23603b
PH
3267PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3268
4730f942
PH
3269PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3270 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3271 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3272 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3273 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3274 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3275 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3276 the variable.
3277
30dba1e6
PH
3278PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3279 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3280
382afc6b
PH
3281PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3282
a86229cf
PH
3283PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3284
50c99ba6
PH
3285PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3286
d35e429d
PH
3287PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3288 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3289 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3290 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3291 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3292 size of the count of files.
3293
f90d018c
PH
3294PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3295
75def545
PH
3296PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3297 used in LMTP mode:
3298
3299 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3300 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3301 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3302 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3303
3304 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3305 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3306 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3307
3308PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3309 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3310 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3311 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3312 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3313
c46782ef
PH
3314PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3315 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3316
71fafd95
PH
3317PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3318 will now be deprecated.
3319
2c5db4fd
PH
3320PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3321
9cf6b11a
JJ
3322JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3323 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3324 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3325
3326JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3327 with very large, slow to parse queues
3328
3329JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3330
3331JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3332
898d150f
PH
3333PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3334 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3335 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3336 SMTP output lines.
3337
46218253
PH
3338PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3339 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3340 Sieve code now uses this.
3341
e97957bc
PH
3342PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3343 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3344
81e509d7
PH
3345PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3346 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3347
3d240ff7
PH
3348PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3349
b37c4101
PH
3350PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3351 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3352 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3353 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3354 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3355
79378e0f
PH
3356PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3357 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3358 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3359 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3360
e49c7bb4
PH
3361PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3362
d114ec46
PH
3363PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3364
f3d7df6c
PH
3365PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3366 is preferred over IPv4.
3367
715ab376
PH
3368PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3369 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3370 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3371 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3372 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3373 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3374 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3375
6b31b150
PH
3376PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3377 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3378 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3379
3380PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3381
d515a917
PH
3382PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3383 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3384 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3385 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3386 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3387 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3388 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3389 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3390 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3391 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3392 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3393
9b8fadde
PH
3394PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3395 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3396 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3397
214e2000 3398
5de37277
PH
3399Exim version 4.60
3400-----------------
3401
cc38ddbf
PH
3402PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3403
3404 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3405 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3406
3407 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3408 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3409 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3410
72fdd6ae
PH
3411PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3412
3413 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3414 not a single digit.
3415
3416 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3417 string.
3418
3419 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3420 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3421 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3422 silly things.
3423
3424 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3425 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3426
3427 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3428 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3429
cb741023
PH
3430PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3431 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3432 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3433
f174f16e
PH
3434PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3435 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3436
c25242d7
PH
3437PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3438 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3439
3440 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3441
3442 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3443 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3444 this:
3445
3446 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3447
82c19f95
PH
3448PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3449 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3450 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3451 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3452 identical. For example:
3453
3454 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3455
3456 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3457 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3458 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3459
d7ffbc12
PH
3460PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3461 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3462 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3463 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3464
9f526266
PH
3465PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3466 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3467 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3468 message.
3469
87fcc8b9
PH
3470PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3471
3472 o fixes some comments
3473 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3474 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3475 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3476 and documents the missing references header update
3477
3478 and most important:
3479
3480 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3481 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3482 result)
3483
456682f5
PH
3484PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3485 Electronic Mail") by including:
3486
3487 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3488
3489 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3490 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3491 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3492 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3493 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3494
3495 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3496
3497 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3498
3499 The auto-replied keyword:
3500
3501 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3502 message by an automatic process,
3503
3504 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3505
3506 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3507 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3508
3509 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3510 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3511 other messages.
3512
3e46c1aa
PH
3513PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3514 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3515
49826d12
PH
3516PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3517
eba0c039
PH
3518PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3519 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3520 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3521
a0d6ba8a
PH
3522PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3523 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3524 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3525
f0917727
PH
3526PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3527 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3528 and treats the condition as false.
3529
096fee00
PH
3530PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3531
024bd3c2
PH
3532PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3533 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3534 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3535 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3536 not changing the active code.
3537
3538 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3539 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3540
3541 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3542 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3543
df199fec
PH
3544PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3545 (Bugzilla #53).
3546
d27f1df3
PH
3547PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3548 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3549 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3550 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3551 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3552 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3553 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3554 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3555 the text comparison.
3556
96776534
PH
3557PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3558 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3559 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3560 The same fix has been applied.
3561
5de37277 3562
9a799bc0
PH
3563Exim version 4.54
3564-----------------
3565
3566PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3567 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3568 It now does.
3569
99a4b039
PH
3570PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3571 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3572
3573PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3574
4b233853
PH
3575PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3576 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3577 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3578 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3579 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3580
8857ccfd
PH
3581TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3582 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3583 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3584 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3585 or /domain=).
3586
433a2980
PH
3587PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3588 testing suite.
3589
3e46c1aa 3590
9a799bc0 3591
e3a311ba
TK
3592Exim version 4.53
3593-----------------
3594
3595TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3596 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3597
13b685f9
PH
3598PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3599
395ff96d
PH
3600PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3601
5b68f6e4
PH
3602PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3603 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3604 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3605
1ab52c69
PH
3606PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3607 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3608 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3609
b07e6aa3
PH
3610PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3611 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3612 operating systems.
3613
254e032f
PH
3614PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3615 ${stat: expansion item.
3616
3af76a81
PH
3617PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3618 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3619
2548ba04
PH
3620PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3621 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3622 file for comments.
3623
b6c6011d
PH
3624PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3625
cf39cf57
PH
3626PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3627 setting.
3628
f1513293
PH
3629PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3630 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3631
727549a4
PH
3632TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3633
af46795e
PH
3634PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3635 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3636 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3637 the end of the subprocess.
3638
d7b47fd0
PH
3639PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3640 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3641 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3642 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3643 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3644
ee744174
JJ
3645JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3646
b582ab87
PH
3647TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3648
41a13e0a
PH
3649PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3650 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3651
f625cc5a
PH
3652PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3653
3654PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3655
21f7af35
PH
3656PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3657 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3658 HP-UX compiler.
3659
31480e42
PH
3660PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3661
2d280592
PH
3662PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3663 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3664 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3665
7cd1141b
PH
3666PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3667 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3668
3669PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3670 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3671
750af86e
PH
3672PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3673 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3674
3675 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3676 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3677
3678 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3679 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3680 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3681 contributed by a Radius user.
3682
3683PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3684 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3685
4304270b
TK
3686TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3687 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3688
750af86e
PH
3689PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3690 available.
3691
64ffc24f
PH
3692PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3693 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3694 received.
3695
5dd9625b
PH
3696PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3697 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3698 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3699 header lines when this was not necessary.
3700
5591031b
PH
3701PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3702
ba18e66a
PH
3703PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3704 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3705 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3706 exists".
3707
9cec981f
PH
3708PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3709 -bV or -d is used.
3710
aa2b5c79
PH
3711PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3712 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3713 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3714 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3715
48a53b7f
PH
3716PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3717
1c59d63b
PH
3718PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3719
671012da
TK
3720TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3721
1509d3a8
PH
3722PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3723
3724PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3725 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3726 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3727 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3728 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3729 settings.
3730
3731PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3732
2fe1a124
PH
3733PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3734 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3735 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3736 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3737 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3738 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3739 which is clearly wrong.
3740
8800895a
PH
3741PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3742
ccfdb010
PH
3743PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3744 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3745 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3746 subsequently added.
3747
1130bfb0
PH
3748PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3749 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3750
ebcb507f
PH
3751PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3752
c35e155c
PH
3753PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3754 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3755
95d1f782
PH
3756PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3757 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3758
fd6de02e
PH
3759PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3760 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3761
58de37c5
PH
3762PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3763 recipients, not senders.
3764
261cf466
TF
3765TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3766 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3767
3ee512ff
PH
3768PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3769
e08c430f
PH
3770PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3771
bef5a11f
PH
3772PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3773 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3774 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3775 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3776
7546de58
TF
3777TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3778
e5d5a95f
TF
3779TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3780 clock is set back in time.
3781
2e88a017
TF
3782TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3783 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3784
a5f65aa4
TF
3785TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3786 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3787
e7726cbf
PH
3788PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3789 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3790 (see PH/47 above).
3791
a7fdad5b
TF
3792TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3793 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3794 header rewrites.
3795
6af56900
PH
3796PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3797 type ("H").
3798
0925ede6
PH
3799PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3800
66afa403
TF
3801TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3802 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3803 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3804
0154e85a
TF
3805TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3806 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3807 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3808 helo verification defer as a failure.
3809
16f12c76
PH
3810PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3811 actual error message.
3812
bbe902f0 3813
e5a9dba6
PH
3814Exim version 4.52
3815-----------------
3816
3817TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3818
22c3b60b
PH
3819PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3820 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3821 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3822 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3823
06a9b4b5
PH
3824TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3825
c1ac6996
PH
3826PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3827 can still be requested.
3828
9c7a242c
PH
3829PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3830 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3831 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3832 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3833
87ba3f5f
PH
3834TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3835 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3836 circumstances, but probably never did.
3837
3838PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3839 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3840 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3841 in the header line.
3842
29aba418
TF
3843TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3844
fe0dab11
TF
3845TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3846 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3847
11d337a4
TK
3848TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3849
3850TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3851
415c8f3b
PH
3852PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3853 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3854 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 3855 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
3856 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3857 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3858
958541e9
PH
3859PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3860 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3861 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3862 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3863 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3864 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3865
c206415f
TK
3866TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3867 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3868
2a4be8f9
PH
3869PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3870 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3871
1cba11c5
SC
3872SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3873 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3874
4c04137d 3875SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
3876
3877SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3878
3879SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3880
3881SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3882
3883SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3884
3885SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3886
1005d00e
TK
3887TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3888
3889TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3890 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3891 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3892
3893TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3894 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3895 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3896 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3897
9b4768fa
PH
3898PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3899 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3900 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3901
3902PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3903 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3904 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3905 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3906
0d7eb84a
PH
3907PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3908 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3909 to be made).
3910
3911PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3912 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3913 should work with maildirs and everything.
3914
40727bee
TK
3915TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3916 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3917
554d2369
TF
3918TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3919 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3920
1f922db1
PH
3921PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3922 function for BDB 4.3.
3923
ef213c3b
PH
3924PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3925
8ac170f3
PH
3926PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3927 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3928 involved.
3929
b1c749bb
PH
3930PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3931 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3932 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3933 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3934 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3935 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3936
4aac9b49
PH
3937PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3938 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3939 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3940 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3941 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3942 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3943 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3944 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3945
294520c8
TK
3946TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3947 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3948 details.
3949
5bd022fe
PH
3950PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3951 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3952
90e9ce59
PH
3953PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3954 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3955 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3956 test. It is now used for both.
3957
5ea81592
PH
3958PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3959 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3960 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3961 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3962 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3963 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3964
c6c2dc1d
PH
3965PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3966 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3967 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3968 string_vformat().
3969
fffffe4c
PH
3970PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3971 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3972 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3973
9a26b6b2
PH
3974PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3975 experimental DomainKeys support:
3976
3977 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3978 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3979 the control was given.
3980
3981 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3982
4aee0225
PH
3983PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3984
32d668a5
PH
3985PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3986
8187c3f3
PH
3987PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3988 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3989 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3990 db.h files).
3991
ff790e47 3992PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3993 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3994 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3995 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3996 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3997 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3998 course.
ff790e47 3999
5417f6d1
PH
4000PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4001 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4002 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4003 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4004 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4005 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4006
59cf8544
PH
4007PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4008 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4009 do -d+all out of habit.
4010
e7ad8a65
PH
4011PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4012 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4013 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4014
ade42478
PH
4015PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4016 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4017 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4018 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4019 record types that Exim uses.
4020
182ad5cf
PH
4021PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4022 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4023 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4024 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4025 non-existent file that was broken.
4026
b0d9fc80
TK
4027TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4028 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4029
4030TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4031 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4032 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4033
4034TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4035
47c7a64a
PH
4036PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4037 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4038 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4039 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4040 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4041 same time.
4042
a388bce4
SC
4043SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4044 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4045 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4046 at a slight CPU cost.
4047
4048SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4049 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4050
4051SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4052 by Marc Sherman.
4053
0793e4ed
SC
4054SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4055
c58b88df
PH
4056PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4057 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4058
e7ad8a65 4059
7982096b
PH
4060Exim version 4.51
4061-----------------
4062
1a46a8c5
PH
4063TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4064 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4065
2f079f46 4066TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4067
4068TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4069
4070PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4071 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4072
4073PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4074 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4075 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4076 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4077 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4078 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4079 file.
4080
4081PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4082 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4083 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4084 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4085 these two options.
4086
4087PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4088 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4089 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4090 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4091 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4092 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4093 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4094 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4095
4096PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4097 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4098
4099PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4100 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4101 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4102 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4103 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4104 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4105
4106PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4107 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4108 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4109 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4110
4111PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4112 Finch).
4113
4114PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4115 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4116
49c2d5ea
PH
4117PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4118 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4119 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4120 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4121 message.
49c2d5ea 4122
bf759a8b
PH
4123PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4124
83364d30
PH
4125PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4126 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4127
7999bbd7
PH
4128PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4129 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4130 to what was transported.)
4131
7dbf77c9
PH
4132TF/01 Added $received_time.
4133
74e0617f
PH
4134PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4135 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4136 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4137 spamd_address settings.
4138
2f079f46
PH
4139PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4140 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4141 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4142 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4143 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4144
8c841523
PH
4145PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4146
7766a4f0
PH
4147PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4148 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4149 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4150 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4151 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4152
8b417f2c
PH
4153PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4154 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4155
901f42cb
PH
4156PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4157 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4158 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4159 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4160 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4161 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4162 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4163 for failure.
4164
f9b9210e
PH
4165PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4166 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4167 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4168 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4169 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4170 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4171 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4172 "input=".
4173
54cdb463
PH
4174PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4175
cf00dad6
PH
4176PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4177 driver and ACL definitions.
4178
acb1b346
PH
4179PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4180 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4181
c5ddb310
PH
4182PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4183 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4184 understands it better than I do:
4185
4186 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4187 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4188
4189 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4190 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4191 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4192 => three warnings about OTP not working
4193 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4194
4195 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4196 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4197 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4198 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4199 for each call.)
4200 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4201 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4202
4203 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4204 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4205 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4206
31619da6
PH
4207PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4208 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4209 specified.
4210
bebaf0fc
PH
4211PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4212 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4213 "Linux".
4214
475fe28a
PH
4215PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4216 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4217 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4218
4219 warn !verify = sender
4220 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4221
4222 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4223 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4224
7e8bec7a
PH
4225PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4226
4227 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4228 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4229
4230 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4231 nomenclature these days.)
4232
e4a89c47
PH
4233PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4234 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4235
5ca2a9a1
PH
4236PH/30 In these circumstances:
4237 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4238 . First host does not offer TLS;
4239 . First host accepts first address;
4240 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4241 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4242 . Second host accepts second address.
4243 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4244 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4245 address.
7e8bec7a 4246
c688b954
PH
4247PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4248 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4249 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4250 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4251 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4252
fed77020
PH
4253PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4254 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4255
7fe1560f
PH
4256PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4257 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4258
ebb6e6d5
PH
4259PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4260 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4261 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4262
9c4e8f60
PH
4263PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4264 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4265 overlooked.
4266
4267PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4268
d7174846
PH
4269PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4270 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4271 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4272 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4273 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4274 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4275 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4276
4277 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4278 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4279 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4280 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4281 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4282
4283 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4284 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4285 routed further.
4286
cfe75fc3
PH
4287PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4288 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4289 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4290 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4291 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4292 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4293
be22d70e
PH
4294PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4295
0612b098
PH
4296PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4297 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4298 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4299 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4300 printable escape sequences.
4301
2e0c1448
PH
4302PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4303 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4304 body only.
4305
447d236c
PH
4306PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4307 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4308 are as follows:
4309
4310 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4311 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4312 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4313 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4314 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4315
4316 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4317 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4318 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4319
d20976dc
PH
4320PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4321
f656d135
PH
4322PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4323 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4324 play with."
4325
2e2a30b4
PH
4326PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4327 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4328 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4329 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4330 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4331 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4332 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4333 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4334 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4335 the log output.
4336
9176e9f0
PH
4337PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4338 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4339 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4340 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4341 "make".
4342
7982096b 4343
bbe902f0
PH
4344A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4345----------------------------------------
4346
4347Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4348changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4349needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4350in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4351that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4352release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4353from 4.43.
4354
4355I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
43564.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4357those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4358historical information.
4359
4360
f7b63901 4361Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4362-----------------
4363
5fe762f6
PH
4364 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4365
139059f6 4366 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4367 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4368
7086e875
PH
4369 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4370 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4371 place.
4372
35af9f61
PH
4373 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4374 filter fails to execute.
4375
b668c215
PH
4376 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4377 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4378 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4379 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4380 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4381
a494b1e1
PH
4382 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4383
4384 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4385 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4386 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4387 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4388
c5fcb476
PH
4389 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4390 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4391 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4392 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4393 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4394
69358f02
PH
4395 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4396
5be20824
PH
439710. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4398
eb2c0248
PH
439911. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4400 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4401 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4402 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4403
2a3eea10
PH
440412. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4405 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4406 sender verification.
4407
440813. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4409 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4410
23c7ff99
PH
441114. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4412
4deaf07d
PH
441315. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4414 connection timeout.
4415
926e1192
PH
441616. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4417 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4418
650edc6f
PH
441917. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4420 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4421
2c7db3f5
PH
442218. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4423 information about exactly what failed.
4424
3d235903
PH
442519. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4426
7c7ad977
PH
442720. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4428 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4429 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4430
981756db
PH
443121. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4432 It is now set to "smtps".
4433
d4eb88df
PH
443422. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4435 ignore_target_hosts.
4436
443723. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4438 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4439 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4440 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4441 "[x.x.x.x]".
4442
7d468ab8
PH
444324. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4444 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4445 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4446
444725. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4448 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4449 wake it up if nothing else does.
4450
62c0818f
PH
445126. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4452 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4453 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4454 end up negative.
4455
26034054
PH
445627. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4457 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4458
af66f652
PH
445928. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4460
90af77f4
PH
446129. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4462 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4463 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4464 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4465 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4466 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4467 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4468 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4469
d8ef3577
PH
447030. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4471 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4472 than one IP address.
4473
5cb8cbc6
PH
447431. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4475 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4476 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4477 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4478
14702f5b
PH
447932. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4480 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4481 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4482 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4483 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4484 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4485
063b1e99
PH
448633. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4487 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4488 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4489 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4490
652e1b65
PH
449134. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4492 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4493 respected.
4494
6f0c9a4f
PH
449535. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4496 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4497 $sender_host_address.
4498
33397d19
PH
449936. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4500 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4501 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4502 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4503 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4504 very small.
4505
7bb56e1f
PH
450637. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4507
4508 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4509 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4510
ea3bc19b
PH
4511 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4512 just the host names, not the priorities.
4513
4514 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4515 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4516 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4517
ea3bc19b 4518 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4519 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4520
0bcb2a0e
PH
452138. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4522 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4523 domain.
4524
2ac0e484
PH
452539. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4526
4e1fde53
PH
452740. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4528 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4529
de365ded
PH
453041. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4531 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4532 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4533
f05da2e8
PH
453442. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4535
d6453af2
PH
453643. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4537
f7b63901
PH
453844. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4539
454045. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4541 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4542 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4543 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4544 because the tests only now provoked it.
4545
a444213a
PH
454646. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4547 (this can affect the format of dates).
4548
0ec020ea
PH
454947. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4550 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4551 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4552 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4553
b1206957
PH
455448. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4555
455649. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4557 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4558 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4559 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4560
26dd5a95
PH
456150. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4562 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4563 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4564
343b2385
PH
456551. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4566 autoreply.
4567
1c5466b9
PH
456852. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4569 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4570 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4571 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4572 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4573 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4574 is going on).
4575
55ee9ee3
PH
457653. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4577 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4578 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4579 the line.
4580
d38f8232
PH
458154. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4582 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4583 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4584
4585 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4586 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4587 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4588 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4589 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4590 so I produce this patch..."
4591
3295e65b
PH
4592 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4593 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4594 is not defined.
4595
7102e136
PH
459655. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4597 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4598 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4599 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4600 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4601
3ca0ba97
PH
460256. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4603
c2bcbe20
PH
460457. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4605 long debug lines gets shown.
4606
18ce445d
PH
460758. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4608 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4609
1f5b4c3d
PH
461059. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4611
4612 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4613 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4614 of $primary_hostname.
4615
b975ba52
PH
461660. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4617 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4618 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4619 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4620 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4621 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4622 by change 4.50/55 above.
4623
4624 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4625 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4626 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4627 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4628 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4629 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4630 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4631
463261. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4633 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4634 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4635 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4636
17ffcae7
PH
463762. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4638 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4639
d95f9fdb
PH
464063. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4641 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4642 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4643 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4644 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4645
86b8287f
PH
464664. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4647 This has been fixed.
4648
60dc5e56
PH
464965. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4650 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4651 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4652 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4653 the caching.)
4654
533244af
PH
465566. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4656
a5a28604
PH
465767. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4658 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4659 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4660 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4661
7e634d24
PH
466268. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4663 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4664
3e11c26b
PH
466569. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4666 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4667 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4668
6729cf78
PH
466970. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4670 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4671 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4672 message there.
4673
00f00ca5
PH
467471. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4675 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4676 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4677
c9bdd01c
PH
467872. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4679 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4680 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4681 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4682
d43194df
PH
468373. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4684 during host lookups.
4685
fe5b5d0b
PH
468674. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4687 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4688
4689 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4690
76a2d7ba
PH
469175. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4692 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4693 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4694 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4695 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4696 background.
4697
469876. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4699 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4700
04f7d5b9
PH
470177. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4702 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4703 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4704
bc60667e
PH
470578. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4706
bb6e88ff
PH
470779. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4708 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4709 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4710 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4711 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4712 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4713 process earlier.
4714
1e70f85b
PH
471580. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4716 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4717 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4718 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4719 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4720
472181. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4722 tables).
4723
4e01f9d6
PH
472482. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4725
1ee1cef2
PH
472683. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4727 "vacation" handling.
4728
6e2b4ccc
PH
472984. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4730 OS variants using glibc.
4731
8e669ac1
PH
473285. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4733
495ae4b0 4734
bbe902f0
PH
4735----------------------------------------------------
4736See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4737----------------------------------------------------
4738
4739
4740Exim version 4.44
4741-----------------
4742
4743 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4744 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4745 transport
4746
4747 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4748 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4749 place.
4750
4751 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4752 filter fails to execute.
4753
4754 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4755 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4756 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4757 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4758 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4759
4760 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4761 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4762 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4763 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4764
4765 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4766 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4767 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4768 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4769 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4770
4771 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4772
4773 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4774 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4775 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4776 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4777
4778 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4779 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4780 sender verification.
4781
478210. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4783 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4784
478511. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4786 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4787
478812. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4789 ignore_target_hosts.
4790
479113. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4792 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4793 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4794 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4795 "[x.x.x.x]".
4796
479714. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4798 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4799 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4800
480115. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4802 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4803 wake it up if nothing else does.
4804
480516. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4806 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4807 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4808 end up negative.
4809
481017. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4811 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4812
ea3a6f44 481318. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4814
481519. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4816 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4817 empty pattern.
4818
481920. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4820 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4821 one IP address.
4822
ea3a6f44
NM
482321. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4824 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4825 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4826 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4827 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4828 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4829
ea3a6f44
NM
483022. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4831 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4832 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4833
483423. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4835 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4836 $sender_host_address.
4837
483824. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4839
ea3a6f44
NM
484025. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4841 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4842 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4843
484426. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4845 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4846
ea3a6f44
NM
484727. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4848 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4849
ea3a6f44
NM
485028. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4851 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4852 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4853 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4854
485529. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4856 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4857 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4858
ea3a6f44
NM
485930. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4860 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4861 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4862 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4863
ea3a6f44
NM
486431. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4865 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4866 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4867
ea3a6f44
NM
486831. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4869 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4870
ea3a6f44
NM
487132. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4872 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4873 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4874 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4875 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4876 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4877 is going on).
bbe902f0 4878
ea3a6f44
NM
487933. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4880 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4881 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4882 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4883 CAN-2005-0021
4884
ea3a6f44
NM
488534. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4886 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4887 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4888 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4889 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4890 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4891 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4892
4893 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4894 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4895 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4896 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4897 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4898 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4899 CAN-2005-0021
4900
ea3a6f44
NM
490135. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4902 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4903 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4904 CAN-2005-0022
4905
ea3a6f44
NM
490636. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4907 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4908 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4909 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4910 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4911
ea3a6f44
NM
491237. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4913 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4914 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4915 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4916 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4917
ea3a6f44
NM
491838. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4919 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4920 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4921 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4922 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4923
4924
495ae4b0
PH
4925Exim version 4.43
4926-----------------
4927
4928 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4929 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4930 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4931 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4932 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4933 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4934 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4935
4936 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4937 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4938 the delivery.
4939
4940 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4941
4942 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4943
4944 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4945 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4946 to local_scan().
4947
4948 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4949 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4950 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4951 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4952 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4953
4954 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4955 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4956
4957 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4958
4959 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4960
496110. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4962 header_sender only.
4963
496411. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4965 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4966
496712. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4968 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4969 affecting debugging statements).
4970
497113. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4972
497314. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4974 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4975 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4976 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4977 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4978 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4979 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4980 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4981 after the received time, and all would be well.
4982
498315. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4984 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4985 condition in an expansion string.
4986
498716. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4988
498917. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4990 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4991 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4992 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4993 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4994 job under whatever limits there are.
4995
499618. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4997
499819. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4999 space).
5000
500120. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5002 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5003 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5004 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5005 return path is set.
5006
500721. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5008 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5009 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5010 binary data in such strings.
5011
501222. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5013
501423. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5015 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5016 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5017 failure, which is pointless.
5018
501924. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5020
502125. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5022
502326. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5024 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5025 Sender: header lines.
5026
502727. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5028 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5029 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5030
503128. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5032 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5033 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5034 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5035 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5036 happens.
5037
503829. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5039 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5040 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5041 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5042 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5043
504430. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5045 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5046 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5047 1024.
5048
504931. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5050 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5051
505232. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5053 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5054
505533. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5056
505732. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5058
505933. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5060
506134. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5062 syntax error.
5063
506435. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5065
506636. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5067
506837. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5069 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5070 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5071 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5072
507338. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5074 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5075
5076
5077Exim version 4.42
5078-----------------
5079
5080 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5081 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5082 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5083 it was not quoted.
5084 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5085 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5086 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5087 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5088 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5089 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5090
5091 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5092 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5093 verification failure".
5094
5095 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5096 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5097 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5098 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5099
5100 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5101 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5102 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5103 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5104 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5105 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5106 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5107 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5108 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5109 treated as a timeout.
5110
5111 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5112 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5113 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5114 not set for Exim filters).
5115
5116 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5117 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5118 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5119
5120 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5121
5122 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5123 try to make them clearer.
5124
5125 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5126 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5127
5128 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5129
5130 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5131
513210. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5133 only the Cygwin environment.
5134
513511. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5136 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5137 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5138 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5139 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5140
514112. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5142 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5143 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5144 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5145 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5146 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5147 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5148
514913. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5150 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5151
515214. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5153
5154 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5155 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5156 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5157
5158 To: susanne@some.where
5159
5160 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5161 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5162 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5163 of addresses in From: header lines).
5164
5165 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5166 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5167 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5168
5169 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5170 treated as non-personal.
5171
5172 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5173 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5174
517515. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5176
517716. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5178
517917. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5180 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5181 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5182
518318. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5184 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5185
518619. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5187 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5188 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5189 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5190 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5191 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5192
519320. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5194 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5195 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5196 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5197 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5198 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5199 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5200 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5201
5202 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5203
520421. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5205 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5206
520722. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5208 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5209 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5210
521123. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5212 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5213
521424. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5215 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5216 rather than long int.
5217
521825. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5219
522026. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5221
5222
5223Exim version 4.41
5224-----------------
5225
5226 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5227 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5228 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5229 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5230 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5231 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5232
5233
5234Exim version 4.40
5235-----------------
5236
5237 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5238 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5239
5240 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5241 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5242 socklen_t is defined.
5243
5244 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5245 always exist.
5246
5247 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5248 configured.
5249
5250 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5251 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5252 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5253 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5254 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5255
5256 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5257 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5258 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5259 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5260
5261 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5262 of flapping under certain conditions.
5263
5264 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5265 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5266 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5267
5268 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5269
527010. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5271
527211. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5273 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5274 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5275 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5276
527712. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5278 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5279 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5280 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5281 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5282 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5283 preserved with the message after it was received.
5284
528513. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5286 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5287 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5288 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5289 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5290 test suite worked just fine.
5291
529214. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5293 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5294 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5295
529615. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5297 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5298 string.
5299
530016. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5301 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5302 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5303 does not fully solve it.
5304
530517. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5306 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5307 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5308 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5309 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5310
531118. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5312 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5313 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5314
531519. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5316 string, for example:
5317
5318 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5319
5320 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5321 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5322 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5323 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5324 the routers could not see them.
5325
532620. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5327 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5328
532921. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5330 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5331 output).
5332
533322. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5334 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5335 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5336 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5337 that needed quoting.
5338
533923. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5340 was not being matched caselessly.
5341
534224. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5343 backslashes.
5344
534525. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5346 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5347 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5348 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5349 when use_sender is false.
5350
535126. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5352
535327. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5354
535528. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5356
535729. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5358 the configuration file.
5359
536030. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5361 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5362
536331. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5364
536532. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5366 bytes in the message body.
5367
536833. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5369 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5370 delivery.
5371
537234. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5373
537435. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5375
537636. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5377 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5378 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5379 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5380 another IP address.
5381
5382
5383Exim version 4.34
5384-----------------
5385
5386 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5387 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5388
5389 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5390 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5391 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5392 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5393 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5394
5395 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5396 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5397
5398 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5399 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5400 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5401
5402 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5403 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5404 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5405
5406 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5407 for routers.
5408
5409 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5410 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5411 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5412 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5413 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5414 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5415 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5416
5417
5418Exim version 4.33
5419-----------------
5420
5421 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5422 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5423 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5424 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5425 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5426 default (and expected) setting.
5427
5428 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5429 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5430 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5431 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5432
5433 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5434 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5435
5436 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5437 in domain lists.
5438
5439 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5440 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5441 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5442 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5443 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5444 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5445
5446 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5447 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5448 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5449
5450 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5451 part (NOT match_host).
5452
5453 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5454
5455 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5456 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5457 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5458 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5459 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5460 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5461 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5462 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5463 the same named file.
5464
546510. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5466 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5467 when Exim is built.
5468
546911. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5470 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5471 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5472 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5473 a host name.
5474
547512. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5476 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5477 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5478
547913. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5480
548114. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5482
548315. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5484
548516. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5486 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5487
548817. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5489 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5490 before starting the TLS session.
5491
549218. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5493
549419. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5495 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5496
549720. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5498 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5499 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5500 colon in the middle).
5501
5502
5503Exim version 4.32
5504-----------------
5505
5506 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5507 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5508 multiple configurations are in use.
5509
5510 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5511 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5512 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5513 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5514 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5515 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5516
5517 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5518 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5519
5520 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5521 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5522 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5523
5524 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5525 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5526 occurs.
5527
5528 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5529 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5530
5531 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5532
5533 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5534 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5535
5536 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5537
5538 -prval:sval
5539
5540 is equivalent to
5541
5542 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5543
5544 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5545 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5546 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5547 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5548 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5549
555010. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5551 Exim's behaviour:
5552
5553 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5554 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5555 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5556 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5557 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5558 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5559
5560 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5561 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5562 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5563 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5564 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5565 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5566 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5567 string.
5568
5569 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5570 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5571 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5572 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5573 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5574
557511. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5576
557712. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5578 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5579 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5580
558113. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5582
558314. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5584 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5585 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5586 information.
5587
558815. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5589 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5590
559116. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5592 Three changes have been made:
5593
5594 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5595 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5596 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5597 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5598 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5599
5600 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5601 been restored.
5602
5603 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5604 the modified behaviour.
5605
5606
5607Exim version 4.31
5608-----------------
5609
5610 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5611 Larry Rosenman.
5612
5613 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5614 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5615
5616 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5617 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5618 try to track down a specific problem.
5619
5620 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5621 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5622 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5623
5624 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5625 warning.
5626
5627 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5628 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5629 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5630 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5631 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5632 some earlier ones do not.
5633
5634 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5635
5636 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5637 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5638 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5639 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5640 address literals are enabled, of course).
5641
5642 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5643
564410. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5645 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5646 by a command such as
5647
5648 exim -f "" ...
5649
5650 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5651
565211. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5653
565412. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5655 remained set. It is now erased.
5656
565713. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5658 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5659
566014. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5661 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5662 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5663 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5664 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5665 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5666 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5667 appropriate error code.
5668
566915. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5670 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5671 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5672 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5673 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5674 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5675
567616. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5677 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5678 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5679
568017. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5681 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5682 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5683 terminate the header.
5684
568518. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5686 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5687 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5688
568919. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5690 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5691 (4.30/29). In particular:
5692
5693 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5694 imposed.
5695
5696 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5697 to write a maildirsize file.
5698
5699 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5700 the transport, the new value overrides.
5701
5702 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5703 count.
5704
570520. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5706 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5707 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5708 space or a tab.
5709
571021. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5711 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5712 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5713 the fallback hosts.
5714
571522. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5716 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5717 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5718
571923. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5720 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5721 using a union.
5722
572324. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5724 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5725 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5726
572725. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5728
572926. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5730
573127. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5732
573328. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5734 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5735 become corrupted.
5736
573729. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5738 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5739 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5740 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5741 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5742 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5743 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5744 too great.
5745
574630. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5747 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5748 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5749 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5750 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5751 incorrectly.
5752
575331. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5754 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5755 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5756 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5757 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5758 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5759 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5760 cached value only when the same options are set.
5761
576232. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5763
576433. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5765 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5766 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5767 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5768 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5769
577034: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5771 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5772 it is clearly obsolete.
5773
577435. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5775 transport.
5776
577736. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5778 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5779 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5780 times.
5781
578237. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5783 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5784 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5785 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5786 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5787
578838. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5789 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5790 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5791 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5792
579339. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5794
5795 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5796
5797 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5798 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5799 2^31.
5800
580140. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5802 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5803 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5804 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5805 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5806 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5807 $localpart_data.
5808
580941. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5810 with the -f command-line option.
5811
581242. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5813 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5814 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5815 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5816 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5817 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5818
581943. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5820 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5821 line.
5822
582344. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5824 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5825 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5826 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5827 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5828 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5829 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5830 buffer is too small.
5831
583245. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5833 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5834
583546. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5836 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5837 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5838 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5839 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5840 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5841 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5842 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5843 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5844
584547. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5846 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5847 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5848
584948. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5850 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5851 ACL").
5852
585349. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5854 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5855 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5856 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5857 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5858
585950. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5860 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5861 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5862 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5863 is set.
5864
586551. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5866
586752. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5868
586953. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5870 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5871
587254. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5873 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5874 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5875
587655. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5877 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5878 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5879 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5880 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5881
588256. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5883 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5884 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5885 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5886 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5887 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5888 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5889
589057. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5891 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5892 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5893 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5894 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5895 the test of how many are available.
5896
589758. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5898 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5899 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 5900 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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5901 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5902 new message is started.
5903
590459. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5905 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5906
590760. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5908 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5909
591061. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5911 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5912 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5913 is no long logged.
5914
591562. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5916 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5917 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5918 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5919 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5920 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5921 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5922
592363. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5924 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5925 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5926 interpreted as octal.
5927
592864. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5929 setting.
5930
593165. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5932 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5933 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5934 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5935 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5936 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5937
593866. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5939 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5940 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5941 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5942
5943 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5944 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5945 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5946 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5947
5948 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5949 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5950 is a bug fix.
5951
5952 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5953 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5954
595567. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5956
595768. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5958 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5959 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5960 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5961
596269. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5963 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5964 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5965 supplied", which is not helpful.
5966
596770. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5968 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5969 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5970
597171. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5972 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5973 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5974 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5975 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5976 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5977 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5978 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5979
598072. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5981 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5982 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5983 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5984 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5985
598673. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5987 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5988 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5989 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 5990 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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5991 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5992
599374. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5994 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5995 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5996
599775. Added write_rejectlog option.
5998
599976. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6000 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6001 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6002 variables.
6003
600477. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6005
600678. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6007 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6008 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6009 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6010 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6011 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6012 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6013 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6014
601579. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6016 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6017 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6018 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6019 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6020
602180. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6022 Haardt.
6023
602481. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6025 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6026 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6027 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6028 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6029 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6030 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6031 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6032 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6033
6034
6035Exim version 4.30
6036-----------------
6037
6038 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6039 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6040 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6041
6042 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6043 fixed.
6044
6045 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6046 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6047 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6048
6049 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6050 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6051 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6052 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6053 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6054 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6056 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6057 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6058 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6059 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6060 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6061 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6062 the Exim test suite.
6063
6064 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6065 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6066 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6067 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6068
6069 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6070 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6071 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6072 specify it in this variable.
6073
6074 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6075 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6076 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6077 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6078
6079 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6080 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6081 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6082 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6083
6084 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6085 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6086 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6087 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6088 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6089
6090 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6091
609210. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6093 they are logged.
6094
609511. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6096 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6097 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6098 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6099 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6100
610112. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6102 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6103
610413. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6105 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6106 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6107 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6108 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6109
611014. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6111 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6112
611315. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6114 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6115 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6116
611716. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6118 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6119
612017. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6121 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6122
612318. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6124 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6125 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6126
612719. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6128 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6129
613020. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6131 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6132 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6133 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6134
613521. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6136
613722. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6138 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6139 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6140 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6141
614223. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6143
614424. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6145 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6146
614725. Added .include_if_exists.
6148
614926. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6150 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6151 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6152 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6153 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6154 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6155
615627. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6157
615828. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6159 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6160 this.
6161
616229. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6163
616430. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6165 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6166
6167 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6168 550 Sender verify failed
6169
6170 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6171 the final line of the response.
6172
617331. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6174 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6175 all other user lookups.
6176
617732. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6178 delivery time.
6179
618033. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6181 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6182 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6183 result into an int without checking.
6184
618534. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6186 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6187 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6188
618935. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6190 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6191 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6192 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6193
619436. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6195 correctly.
6196
619737. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6198 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6199
620038. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6201 to the empty sender.
6202
620339. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6204 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6205 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6206 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6207 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6208 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6209 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6210 panic log.
6211
621240. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6213 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6214 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6215 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6216 used.
6217
621841. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6219 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6220
622142. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6222 timestamps.
6223
622443. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6225 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6226
622744. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6228
622945. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6230 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6231 logs.
6232
623346. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6234 as soon as it is encountered.
6235
623647. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6237
623848. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6239 rewritten to "<>".
6240
624149. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6242 recognizes a tab character.
6243
624450. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6245 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6246 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6247 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6248
624951. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6250
625152. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6252 crash.
6253
625453. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6255
625654. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6257
625855. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6259 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6260 2822.
6261
626256. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6263 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6264 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6265 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6266 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6267
626857. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6269 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6270
627158. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6272 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6273 list (.included file names were always shown).
6274
627559. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6276 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6277 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6278 root at that time.
6279
628060. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6281 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6282
628361. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6284
628562. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6286
628763. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6288
628964. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6290 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6291 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6292 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6293 failures to open the logs.
6294
629565. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6296 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6297 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6298 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6299 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6300 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6301 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6302
6303
6304Exim version 4.24
6305-----------------
6306
6307 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6308 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6309 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6310 change 4.23/1.
6311
6312 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6313 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6314 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6315
6316 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6317 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6318 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6319
6320 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6321 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6322 causing some misleading effects.
6323
6324 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6325 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6326 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6327
6328 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6329 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6330 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6331 queue-runner function directly.
6332
6333
6334Exim version 4.23
6335-----------------
6336
6337 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6338 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6339
6340 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6341 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6342 was always written to the default place.
6343
6344 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6345 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6346 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6347
6348 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6349
6350 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6351
6352 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6353 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6354 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6355
6356 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6357 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6358 must start.
6359
6360 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6361 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6362 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6363
6364 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6365 command line option is disabled.
6366
6367 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6368 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6369
6370 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6371
6372 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6373
6374 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6375 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6376
637710. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6378
637911. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6380 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6381 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6382 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6383 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6384 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6385
638612. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6387 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6388 timeout.
6389
639013. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6391 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6392
639314. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6394 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6395
639615. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6397 received was valid base64.
6398
639916. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6400 name of the variable that was being set.
6401
640217. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6403
640418. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6405 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6406 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6407 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6408 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6409 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6410
641119. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6412
641320. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6414 nor realm was specified.
6415
641621. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6417 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6418 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6419 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6420
642122. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6422 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6423 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6424
642523. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6426 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6427 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6428
642924. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6430 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6431 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6432 some systems use these upper case variants.
6433
643425. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6435 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6436 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6437 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6438
643926. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6440
644127. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6442 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6443
644428. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6445 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6446 expansion variable.
6447
644829. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6449
645030. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6451 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6452 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6453 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6454
645531. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6456 using it.
6457
645832. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6459 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6460 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6461
646233. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6463 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6464
646534. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6466 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6467 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6468 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6469
647035. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6471 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6472 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6473
647436. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6475
647637. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6477 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6478 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6479 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6480 aborted.
6481
648238. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6483 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6484 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6485
648639. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6487
648840. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6489 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6490
649141. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6492 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6493
649442. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6495 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6496 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6497 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6498 when emails are that large.
6499
6500
6501
6502Exim version 4.22
6503-----------------
6504
6505 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6506 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6507
6508 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6509 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6510 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6511
6512 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6513 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6514 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6515
6516 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6517 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6518 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6519 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6520 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6521
6522 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6523 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6524 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6525 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6526 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6527 ever.
6528
6529 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6530 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6531 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6532 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6533 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6534 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6535 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6536 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6537 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6538 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6539 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6540 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6541 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6542 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6543
6544 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6545 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6546 parameterised it.
6547
6548 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6549 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6550 error should be diagnosed.
6551
6552 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6553 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6554 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6555 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6556 appeared instead of "NULL".
6557
655810. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6559 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6560 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6561 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6562 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6563 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6564 proceeds).
6565
6566 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6567 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6568 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6569
6570
6571Exim version 4.21
6572-----------------
6573
6574 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6575 or receiver verification errors.
6576
6577 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6578 name.
6579
6580 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6581 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6582 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6583 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6584
6585 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6586 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6587 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6588 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6589 shouldn't happen again.
6590
6591 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6592 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6593 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6594
6595 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6596 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6597
6598 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6599
6600 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6601 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6602
6603 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6604 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6605 RFC.
6606
660710. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6608 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6609 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6610
661111. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6612 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6613 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6614 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6615
661612. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6617 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6618 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6619 to define what should happen).
6620
662113. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6622 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6623 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6624
662514. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6626
662715. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6628
662916. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6630 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6631
4c04137d 663217. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
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6633 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6634 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6635 structure in all cases.
6636
6637 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6638 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6639 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6640 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6641
664218. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6643 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6644 domain name.
6645
664619. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6647 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6648
664920. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6650 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6651
665221. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6653 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6654 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6655
665622. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6657 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6658 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6659
666023. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6661 the book and for uniformity.
6662
666324. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6664
666525. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 6666 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
495ae4b0
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6667 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6668 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6669 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6670 non-existent command as the problem.
6671
667226. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6673 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6674 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6675
667627. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6677
667828. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6679 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6680 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6681
668229. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6683 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6684 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6685 timestamps using strftime().
6686
668730. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6688 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6689
669032. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6691 transport-time rewrites.
6692
669333. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6694 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6695 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6696 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6697
669834. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6699 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6700
670135. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6702 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6703 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6704 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6705 comma and a space.
6706
670736. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6708 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6709 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6710 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6711 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6712 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6713 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6714
671537. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6716 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6717 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6718 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6719 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6720
672138. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6722 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6723 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6724 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6725 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6726 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6727 remaining text gets split now.
6728
672939. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6730 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6731 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6732 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6733
673440. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6735 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6736 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6737 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6738 $return_path.
6739
674041. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6741 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6742 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6743 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6744 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6745 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6746 passed through if needed.
6747
674842. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6749 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6750 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6751 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6752 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6753 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6754
675543. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6756 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6757 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6758 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6759 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6760
676144. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6762 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6763 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6764 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6765 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6766
676745. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6768 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6769 noticed.
6770
677146. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6772 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6773 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6774 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6775 mayhem of various kinds.
6776
677747. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6778 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 6779 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
495ae4b0
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6780 the right test for positive values.
6781
678248. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6783 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6784 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6785 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6786 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6787 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6788 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6789 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6790 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6791 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6792 envelope.
6793
679449. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6795 module.
6796
679750. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6798 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6799 forbidding it.
6800
680151. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6802 the existing equality matching.
6803
680452. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6805 dealing with inode numbers.
6806
680753. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6808 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6809 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6810
681154. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6812 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6813 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6814 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6815 local_scan().
6816
681755. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6818 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6819 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6820 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6821 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6822 relay addresses has also been removed.
6823
682456. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6825
682657. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6827 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6828 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6829
683058. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6831 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6832 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6833 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6834 processing applies to CR:
6835
6836 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6837 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6838
6839 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6840 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6841 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6842 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6843
684459. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6845 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6846 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6847
684860. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6849 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6850 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6851 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6852 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6853 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6854 arisen.
6855
685661. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6857 program routers.
6858
685962. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6860 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6861 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6862 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6863 adds:
6864
6865 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6866
6867 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6868
6869 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6870
687163. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6872 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6873 not considered personal.
6874
687564. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6876
687765. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6878
687966. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6880
688167. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6882 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6883 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6884 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6885 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6886 header lines, and spool format errors.
6887
688868. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6889 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6890 for more flexibility.
6891
689269. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6893 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6894 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6895
689670. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6897 Sabourenkov.
6898
689971. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6900 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6901 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6902 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6903 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6904 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6905 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6906 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6907 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6908
690972. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6910 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6911 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6912 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6913 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6914 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6915 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6916
691773. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6918 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6919 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6920
692174. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6922 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6923 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6924 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6925 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6926 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6927 instead of killing the process with assert().
6928
692975. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6930 than Unicode encoding.
6931
693276. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6933 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6934 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6935 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6936
693777. Added process_log_path.
6938
693978. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6940 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6941
694279. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6943 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6944
694580. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6946 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6947 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6948
694981. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6950 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6951 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6952 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6953 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6954 were applied:
6955
6956 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6957 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6958 as invalid.
6959
696082. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6961 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6962 they will be used during message reception.
6963
6964
6965Exim version 4.20
6966-----------------
6967
6968The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6969
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