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3Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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6Exim version 4.76
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8
9PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
10
754a0503
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11PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
12 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
13
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14PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
15
e97d1f08
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16PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
17
084c1d8c
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18PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
19 Bugzilla 1098.
20
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21PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
22 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 23
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24TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
25 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
26
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27PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
28 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
29
5ee6f336
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30PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
31 Bugzilla 1104.
32
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33TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
34 format-string attack.
35
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37Exim version 4.75
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39
4c9ef03a 40NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
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41 Bugzilla 1073
42
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43TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
44 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
45 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
46
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47TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
48 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
49
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50PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
51 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
52 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
53
f7274286
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54PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
55 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
56
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57PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
58 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
59
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60NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
61 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
62
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63NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
64 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
65
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66PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
67 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 68
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69NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
70 Fixes bug 943.
71
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72PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
73 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
74
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75PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
76 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
77
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78PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
79 SQL string expansion failure details.
80 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
81
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82PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
83 Patch from Simon Arlott.
84
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85PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
86 extern declarations in function scope.
87 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
88
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89PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
90 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
91 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
92 a kernel bug).
93
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94PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
95 Patch from Mark Zealey.
96
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97PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
98 Patch from Mark Zealey.
99
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100PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
101 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
102
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103PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
104 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
105
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106NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
107 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
108 Dennis Davis.
109
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110PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
111
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112PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
113
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114NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
115 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 116
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117TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
118 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
119
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121Exim version 4.74
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123
124TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
125 consequences so log it to the panic log.
126
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127TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
128 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
129
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130TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
131
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132DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
133 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
134 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
135
136PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
137 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
138 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
139
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140PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
141 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
142 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
143 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
144
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145PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
146 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
147 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
148 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
149
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150PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
151 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
152 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
153 arbitrary files.
154
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155PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
156 (Wolfgang Breyha)
157
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158PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
159 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
160 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
161 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
162 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
163
8c07b69f 164
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167
168PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
169 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
170 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
171
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172PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
173 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
174
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175JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
176
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177PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
178
a29e5231
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179PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
180
ec5a0394 181PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 182
55c75993
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183PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
184
453a6645 185PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
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186 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
187 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
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188 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
189
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190PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
191 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
192 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
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193 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
194 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 195
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196PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
197
ed7f7860
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198PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
199
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200PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
201
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202PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
203
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204PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
205
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206PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
207
532be449
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208PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
209
6a8de854 210PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
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211 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
212 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 213
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214JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
215
216JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
217 "exim" to be used
55c75993 218
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219PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
220 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
221
491fab4c
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222PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
223 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
224 Notification from John Horne.
225
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226PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
227 compatible.
228
229PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
230 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
231 it normally works.
232
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233DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
234 access.
235
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236DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
237 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
238 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
239
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240DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
241 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
242 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
243 configuration file.
244
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245DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
246 option (effectively making it always true).
247
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248DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
249 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
250
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251DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
252 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
253
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254PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
255 run-time user, instead of root.
256
43236f35 257PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
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258 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
259
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260DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
261 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
262 arguments.
3346ab01 263
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264DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
265 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
266 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
267
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268DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
269
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270NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
271
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273Exim version 4.72
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275
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276JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
277 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
278 typos
465e92cf 279
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280JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
281 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
282 (Finput)
edae0343 283
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284NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
285 Patch from Alain Williams
286
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287NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
288
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289NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
290 Patch from Andreas Metzler
291
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292NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
293 Patch from Kirill Miazine
294
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295NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
296
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297JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
298
a466095c 299NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 300 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 301
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302TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
303
304TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
305
306MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
307 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
308 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
309
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310NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
311 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 312
b26eacf1 313NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
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314 Patch by Simon Arlott
315
179c5980 316PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 317 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 318
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7d9f747b 323TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 324
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325NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
326
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327NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
328
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329NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
330
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331NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
332
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334Exim version 4.70
335-----------------
336
cdd3bb85 337TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 338 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
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340TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
341 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 342 Hirsch).
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343
344TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
345 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 346 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
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347
348TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
349 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
350
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351NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
352 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
353 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
354 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
355
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356NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
357 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 358 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 359
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360TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
361
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362TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
363
dae9d94e 364NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 365 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 366
7d9f747b 367NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 368
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369TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
370 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
371 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
372 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
373
65a7d8c3 374NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 375 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 376
23510047 377TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 378
7d9f747b 379NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 380
7d8eec3a 381NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 382 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 383
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384TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
385 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 386
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387TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
388 that they are available at delivery time.
389
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390TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
391
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392TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
393 incoming_port log selectors.
394
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395TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
396 setting expands to an empty string.
397
ce552449 398NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 399 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 400
e765a0f1 401NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 402 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 403
4f054c63 404NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 405 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 406
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407NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
408 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 409
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410NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
411 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 412
b52bc06e 413NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 414 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 415
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416NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
417
4c69d561 418NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 419 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 420
d5c39246 421NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 422 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 423
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424TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
425
8f3414a1 426NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 427 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 428
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429NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
430
431NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 432
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433NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
434 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 435
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436NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
437 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 438
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439NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
440 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 441
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442NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
443 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 444
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445NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
446 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 447
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448NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
449 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 450
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451NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
452 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 453
7d9f747b 454NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 455 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 456
7d9f747b 457NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 458
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459NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
460 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 461
7d9f747b 462NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 463
7d9f747b 464NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 465
7d9f747b 466NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 467
7d9f747b 468NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 469
17792b53 470NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 471 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 472
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473NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
474 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 475
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476NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mistmatches.
477 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 478
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479NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
480 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 481
7d9f747b 482NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 483
7d9f747b 484NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 485
7d9f747b 486NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 487
7d9f747b 488NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 489
deafd5b3 490
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493
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494TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
495 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
496 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
497
498 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
499 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
500 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
501 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
502 build errors in sieve.c.
503
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504NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
505 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
506 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
507
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508SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
509
7d9f747b 510NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 511
7d9f747b 512NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 513
7d9f747b 514NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
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516
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517Exim version 4.68
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519
520PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
521
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522PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
523 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
524 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
525 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
526 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
527 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
528 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
529 for iplsearch lookups.
530
531 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
532 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
533 previously such lookups could never work.
534
535 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
536 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
537 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
538
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539TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
540 version.
541
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542MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
543 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
544 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
545 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
546 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
547 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
548
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549TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
550 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
551
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552MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
553 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
554 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
555 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
556 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
557 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
558
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559PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
560 local_scan API.
561
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562PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
563
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564PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
565 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
566 encrypted.
567
568PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
569 by clients under certain conditions.
570
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571PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
572 "_responses" off the end of the name.
573
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574PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
575
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576PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
577 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
578
579PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
580
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581PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
582
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583PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
584
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585PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
586 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
587
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588PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
589
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590PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
591 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
592
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593PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
594
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595PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
596
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597PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
598 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
599 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
600 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 601
ddea74fa 602PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
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603 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
604 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
605
ddea74fa 606PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
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607 and InterBase are left for another time.)
608
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609PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
610
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611PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
612
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613PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
614
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615PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
616 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
617 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
618
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622
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623MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
624 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
625 Jan Srzednicki.
626
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627PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
628 issue a MAIL command.
629
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630PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
631
632 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
633
634 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
635 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
636 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
637 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
638 item. This has been fixed.
639
640PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
641 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
642
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643PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
644 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
645
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646PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
647 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
648 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
649
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650SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
651
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652PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
653 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
654 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
655 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
656 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
657
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658MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
659 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
660 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
661
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662PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
663 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
664 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
665 the server_setid option was incorrect.
666
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667PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
668
6bf342e1
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669PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
670
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671PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
672 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
673 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
674 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
675 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
676
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677PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
678
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679PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
680 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
681 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
682 values).
683
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684PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
685
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686PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
687
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688PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
689
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690PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
691
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692PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
693
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694PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
695 no_callout_flush is set.
696
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697PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
698 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
699 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
700 fixed.
701
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702PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
703
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704PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
705 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
706 other ACL rejections are.
707
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708PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
709 with slight modification.
710
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711PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
712 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
713
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714PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
715 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
716 connection.
717
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718PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
719 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
720
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721SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
722
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723PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
724 expansion side effects.
725
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726PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
727 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
728 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
729 be the same.
730
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731MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
732 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
733 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
734
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735PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
736 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
737 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
738 were accidentally chopped off.
739
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740PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
741 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
742 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
743 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
744 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
745 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
746 pipelining has not been advertised.
747
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748PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
749
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750PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
751 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
752 This has been fixed.
753
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754PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
755 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
756 reported on Solaris.
757
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758PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
759 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
760 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
761 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
762 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
763 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
764 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
765
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766PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
767 cpus.
768
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769PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
770
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771PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
772
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773PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
774 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
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775 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
776 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
777 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
778 criteria to be more general.
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780PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
781 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
782 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
783 host_all_ignored option.
784
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785PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
786 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
787 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
788 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
789 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
790 is what is supposed to happen).
791
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792PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
793 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
794 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
795 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
796 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
797 uses the Exim user.
798
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799PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
800 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
801 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
802 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
803 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
804 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
805 users.
806
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807PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
808
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809SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
810 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
811 (Jez Hancock).
812 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
813 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
814
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815SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
816
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817PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
818
58eb016e 819PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
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820 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
821 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
822 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
823 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
824 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
825 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
826 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 827 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
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828 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
829 least in a lot of common cases.
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831PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
832 advertised in response to EHLO.
833
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837
838PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
839 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
840
841 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
842 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
843
844 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
845 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
846 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
847
848 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
849 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
850 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
851 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
852 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
853
854
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857
858TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
859 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
860 versions. (#438)
861
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862MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
863 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
864 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
865
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866PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
867 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
868 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
869 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
870 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
871 rather than extend the field.
872
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877TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
878 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
879 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
880 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
881 these files.
882
883TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
884 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
885 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
886
887TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
888 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
889 hence the _LINUX specificness.
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890
891TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
892 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
893 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
894 in the field name.
895
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896PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
897 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
898 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
899 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
900 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
901 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
902 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
903 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
904 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
905 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
906 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
907
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908PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
909 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
910
911PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
912 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
913 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
914 ignores EPIPE as well.
915
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916PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
917 (quoted-printable decoding).
918
cc2ed8f7 919PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 920 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 921
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922PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
923
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924PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
925
926PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
927
38a0a95f 928PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 929 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 930
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931JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
932 in 4.64-PH/09.
933
934JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
935 miscellaneous code fixes
936
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937PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
938 rejections.
939
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940PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
941 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
942 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
943 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
944 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
945 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
946 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
947 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 948
14aa5a05 949PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 950 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
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951 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
952 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
953 function.
954 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
955 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
956 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
957 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
958 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
959 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
960 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
961 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
962 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
963
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964PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
965 decoding.
966
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967PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
968 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
969 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
970 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
971 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
972 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
973 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
974 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
975
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976PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
977 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
978 list.
979
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980PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
981 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
982 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
983 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
984 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
985 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
986 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
987 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
988 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
989 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
990 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
991 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
992 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
993
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994PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
995 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
996 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
997 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
998 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
999 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1000 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1001
1eccaa59
PH
1002PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1003 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1004 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1005 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1006 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1007 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1008 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1009 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1010 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1011 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1012
602e59e5
PH
1013PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1014 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1015 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1016 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1017 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1018
411ef850
PH
1019PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1020 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1021 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1022 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1023 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1024 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1025 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1026
7befa435
PH
1027PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1028 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1029 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1030 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1031 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1032 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1033 been verified.
1034
48da4259 1035PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1036 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1037 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1038 and authorization.)
1039
48da4259
PH
1040PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1041 if any retry times were supplied.
1042
d1d5595c
PH
1043PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1044 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1045 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1046
0ef732d9
PH
1047PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1048
328895cc
PH
1049PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1050
fd700877
PH
1051PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1052 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1053 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1054 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1055 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1056 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1057
8dce1a6f
PH
1058PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1059 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1060
17af4a17
PH
1061PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1062 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1063 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1064
1065PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1066 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1067 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1068 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1069 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1070 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1071 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1072 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1073 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1074
1075 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1076 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1077 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1078 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1079 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1080 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1081 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1082 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1083 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1084
1085 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1086 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1087 hammering the server.
1088
c1114884
PH
1089PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1090 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1091
7a0743eb
PH
1092PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1093
0d85fa3f
PH
1094PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1095 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1096 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1097
1bf43b78
PH
1098PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1099 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1100 one case where this was not true.
1101
520de300
PH
1102PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1103 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1104 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1105 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1106 fails.
1107
48c7f9e2
PH
1108PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1109 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1110 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1111 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1112 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1113 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1114 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1115 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1116 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1117 smtp transport.
1118
99ea1c86
PH
1119PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1120 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1121 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1122 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1123
a2042e78
PH
1124PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1125 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1126
4fbcfc2e
PH
1127PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1128 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1129 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1130
aa41d2de
PH
1131PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1132
af561417
PH
1133PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1134
3cc66b45
PH
1135PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1136
194cc0e4
PH
1137PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1138 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1139 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1140 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1141
a401ddaa
PH
1142PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1143 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1144
4e88a19f
PH
1145PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1146 be meaningful with "accept".
1147
d7d7b289
SC
1148SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1149 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1150
1151SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1152 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1153 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1154
1155SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1156 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1157 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1158 there is data to show.
1159 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1160
1161SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1162 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1163 as well as the number of messages.
1164
1165SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1166 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1167 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1168
1169SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1170 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1171 have a flag are now skipped.
1172
1173SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1174 Added the -emptyok flag.
1175
1176SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1177 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1178
0ea2a468
JJ
1179JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1180 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1181 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1182
1183JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1184 match 4.64-PH/13
1185
1186JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1187 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1188
1189JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1190
1191JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1192 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1193
8a10f5a4
PH
1194PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1195
30e18802
PH
1196PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1197 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1198 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1199 contravention of the specifications.
1200
55728a4f
PH
1201PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1202 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1203 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1204
d7837193
PH
1205PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1206 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1207 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1208
87054a31
PH
1209PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1210
ea2c01d2
MH
1211MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1212 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1213 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1214 some point in the past.
1215
e4fa6968
PH
1216PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1217 transport during callout processing was broken.
1218
56f5d9bd
PH
1219PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1220 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1221
922e1c28
PH
1222PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1223 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1224
21eb6e72
PH
1225PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1226 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1227
a0540757
PH
1228PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1229
944e9e9c 1230
478be7b0
SC
1231Exim version 4.63
1232-----------------
1233
1234SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1235 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1236
1237SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1238 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1239 there is data to show.
1240 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1241
1242SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1243 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1244
2b965a65
TF
1245TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1246 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1247
45b91596
PH
1248TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1249 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1250
c59f5781
TF
1251TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1252 submissions from trusted users.
1253
90fc3069
TF
1254TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1255 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1256
6083aca0
TF
1257TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1258 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1259 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1260 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1261 there is now a framework to start from.
1262
765b530f
PH
1263PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1264 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1265 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1266
4e167a8c
PH
1267PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1268
4608d683
PH
1269PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1270
b8dc3e4a
PH
1271PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1272
5418e93b
PH
1273PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1274 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1275 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1276
b4a9bda2
PH
1277PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1278 libradius.
1279
45b91596
PH
1280PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1281 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1282 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1283
5547e2c5
PH
1284PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1285 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1286 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1287 its arguments.
1288
dbcef0ea
PH
1289PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1290 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1291 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1292 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1293 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1294
25257489
PH
1295PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1296 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1297
c816d124
PH
1298PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1299
a9ccd69a
PH
1300PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1301 operations in malware.c.
1302
75fa1910
PH
1303PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1304 signatures.
1305
a7d7aa58
PH
1306PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1307 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1308 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1309 all.
1310
42119b09
PH
1311PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1312 statements to "add_header".
1313
41609df5
PH
1314PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1315 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1316
a5bd321b
PH
1317PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1318 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1319 latter.
1320
e85a7ad5 1321PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1322 so that it is now:
1323
e85a7ad5
PH
1324 ${if or { \
1325 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1326 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1327 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1328 }{no}{yes}}
1329
e85a7ad5
PH
1330 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1331 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1332
d8fe1c03
PH
1333PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1334 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1335
16282d2b
PH
1336PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1337 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1338 any possible encoding problems.
1339
35d40a98
PH
1340PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1341 but not after initializing Perl.
1342
034d99ab
PH
1343PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1344 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1345 apparently, which is not desirable.
1346
6ec97b1b
PH
1347PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1348 queries.
1349
e22ca4ac
JJ
1350JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1351 --not options
1352
1353JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1354
33d73e3b
PH
1355PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1356 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1357 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1358 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1359
9ecb03f3
PH
1360PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1361 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1362 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1363
084efe8d
PH
1364PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1365 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1366 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1367 0.12.
1368
366fc9f0
PH
1369PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1370 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1371 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1372 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1373 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1374
c59f5781 1375
c887c79e
TF
1376Exim version 4.62
1377-----------------
1378
1379TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1380 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1381
1cce3af8
PH
1382PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1383 patch).
1384
afb3eaaf
PH
1385PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1386 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1387 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1388 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1389 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1390 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1391 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1392 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1393 451 error is used.
1394
e173618b
PH
1395PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1396
dd16e114
PH
1397PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1398 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1399 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1400
f7fd3850
PH
1401PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1402 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1403 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1404 odd errors.
1405
d87df92c
PH
1406PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1407 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1408
7e9f683d
PH
1409PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1410 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1411 option (which defaults to 0600).
1412
bfad5236
PH
1413PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1414
01c490df
PH
1415PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1416 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1417 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1418 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1419 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1420 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1421 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1422
d6629cdc
PH
1423PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1424
1cce3af8 1425
214e2000
PH
1426Exim version 4.61
1427-----------------
1428
1429PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1430 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1431 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1432 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1433 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1434 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1435 addresses as local.
1436
f9daeae0
PH
1437PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1438 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1439
7e66e54d
PH
1440PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1441
c8ea1597
PH
1442PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1443 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1444 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1445 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1446 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1447 grumble.
1448
911f6fde
PH
1449PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1450 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1451
47ca6d6c
PH
1452PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1453 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1454 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1455 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1456 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1457
ed0e9820
PH
1458PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1459 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1460 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1461 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1462
eff37e47
PH
1463PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1464 be the same on different OS.
1465
1921d2ea
PH
1466PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1467 testing.
1468
b3f69ca8
JJ
1469JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1470 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1471
1472JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1473 in 4.61-PH/06
1474
424a1c63
PH
1475PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1476 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1477 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1478 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1479 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1480 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1481 bounce message.
1482
7a100415
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1483PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1484 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1485 when Exim was called.
1486
19b9dc85
PH
1487PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1488 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1489
309bd837
PH
1490PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1491 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1492 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1493 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1494
59e82a2a
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1495PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1496 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1497 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1498 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1499 changes:
1500
1501 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1502 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1503 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1504
1505 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1506 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1507 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1508
9edc04ce
PH
1509PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1510 feature).
1511
1349e1e5
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1512PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1513 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1514 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1515 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1516 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1517 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1518 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1519 values from the SRV records were lost.
1520
ea49d0e1
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1521PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1522 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1523 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1524
064a94c9
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1525PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1526 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1527 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1528
727071f8
PH
1529PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1530 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1531 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1532 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1533 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1534 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1535 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1536 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1537 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 1538 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 1539
f78eb7c6
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1540PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1541 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1542 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1543
21c28500
PH
1544PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1545 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1546
1547PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1548 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1549 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1550 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1551 is given.
1552
1688f43b
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1553PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1554 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1555 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1556
1557PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1558 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1559 PH/23 above applies.
1560
9675b384
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1561PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1562 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1563 (for which there is an explicit test).
1564
6a3f1455
PH
1565PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1566
dac79d3e
PH
1567PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1568 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1569 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1570 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1571 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 1572
5977a0b3
PH
1573PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1574 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1575 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1576 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1577
c91535f3
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1578PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1579 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1580 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1581
0d46a8c8
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1582PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1583
278c6e6c
PH
1584PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1585
2cbb4081
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1586PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1587 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1588 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1589
3eef829e
PH
1590PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1591 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1592 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1593 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1594 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1595
1ab95fa6
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1596PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1597 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1598 the message gets confusing).
1599
230205fc
PH
1600PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1601 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
1602 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
1603 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
1604
75e0e026
PH
1605PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
1606 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
1607 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
1608 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
1609 same order.
1610
1611PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
1612 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
1613 the different processes.
1614
145396a6
PH
1615PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
1616
3cd34f13
PH
1617PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
1618
11121d3d
JJ
1619JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
1620 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
1621
1622JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
1623 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
1624
1625JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
1626 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
1627 messages matching specified criteria.
1628
8def5aaf
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1629PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
1630
929ba01c
PH
1631PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
1632 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
1633
2632889e
PH
1634PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
1635 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
1636 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
1637 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
1638 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
1639 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
1640 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
1641 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
1642 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
1643 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
1644
944a9c55
PH
1645PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
1646 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
1647 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
1648
4a23603b
PH
1649PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
1650
4730f942
PH
1651PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
1652 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
1653 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
1654 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
1655 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
1656 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
1657 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
1658 the variable.
1659
30dba1e6
PH
1660PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
1661 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
1662
382afc6b
PH
1663PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
1664
a86229cf
PH
1665PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
1666
50c99ba6
PH
1667PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1668
d35e429d
PH
1669PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
1670 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
1671 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
1672 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
1673 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
1674 size of the count of files.
1675
f90d018c
PH
1676PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
1677
75def545
PH
1678PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
1679 used in LMTP mode:
1680
1681 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
1682 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
1683 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
1684 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
1685
1686 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
1687 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
1688 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
1689
1690PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
1691 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
1692 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
1693 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
1694 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
1695
c46782ef
PH
1696PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
1697 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
1698
71fafd95
PH
1699PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
1700 will now be deprecated.
1701
2c5db4fd
PH
1702PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
1703
9cf6b11a
JJ
1704JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
1705 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
1706 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
1707
1708JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
1709 with very large, slow to parse queues
1710
1711JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
1712
1713JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
1714
898d150f
PH
1715PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
1716 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
1717 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
1718 SMTP output lines.
1719
46218253
PH
1720PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
1721 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
1722 Sieve code now uses this.
1723
e97957bc
PH
1724PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
1725 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
1726
81e509d7
PH
1727PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
1728 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
1729
3d240ff7
PH
1730PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
1731
b37c4101
PH
1732PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
1733 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
1734 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
1735 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
1736 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
1737
79378e0f
PH
1738PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
1739 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
1740 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
1741 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
1742
e49c7bb4
PH
1743PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
1744
d114ec46
PH
1745PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
1746
f3d7df6c
PH
1747PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
1748 is preferred over IPv4.
1749
715ab376
PH
1750PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
1751 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
1752 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
1753 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
1754 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
1755 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
1756 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
1757
6b31b150
PH
1758PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
1759 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
1760 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
1761
1762PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
1763
d515a917
PH
1764PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
1765 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
1766 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
1767 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
1768 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
1769 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
1770 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
1771 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
1772 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
1773 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
1774 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
1775
9b8fadde
PH
1776PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
1777 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
1778 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
1779
214e2000 1780
5de37277
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1781Exim version 4.60
1782-----------------
1783
cc38ddbf
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1784PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
1785
1786 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
1787 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
1788
1789 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
1790 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
1791 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 1792
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1793PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
1794
1795 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
1796 not a single digit.
1797
1798 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
1799 string.
1800
1801 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
1802 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
1803 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
1804 silly things.
1805
1806 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
1807 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
1808
1809 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
1810 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 1811
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PH
1812PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
1813 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
1814 "/bin:/usr/bin".
1815
f174f16e
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1816PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
1817 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 1818
c25242d7
PH
1819PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
1820 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
1821
1822 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
1823
1824 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
1825 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
1826 this:
1827
1828 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
1829
82c19f95
PH
1830PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
1831 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
1832 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
1833 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
1834 identical. For example:
1835
1836 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
1837
1838 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
1839 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
1840 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
1841
d7ffbc12
PH
1842PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
1843 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
1844 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
1845 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
1846
9f526266
PH
1847PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
1848 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
1849 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
1850 message.
1851
87fcc8b9
PH
1852PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
1853
1854 o fixes some comments
1855 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
1856 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
1857 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
1858 and documents the missing references header update
1859
1860 and most important:
1861
1862 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
1863 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
1864 result)
1865
456682f5
PH
1866PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
1867 Electronic Mail") by including:
1868
1869 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
1870
1871 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
1872 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
1873 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
1874 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
1875 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
1876
1877 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
1878
1879 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
1880
1881 The auto-replied keyword:
1882
1883 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
1884 message by an automatic process,
1885
1886 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
1887
1888 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
1889 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
1890
1891 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
1892 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
1893 other messages.
1894
3e46c1aa
PH
1895PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
1896 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 1897
49826d12
PH
1898PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
1899
eba0c039
PH
1900PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
1901 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
1902 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
1903
a0d6ba8a
PH
1904PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
1905 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
1906 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
1907
f0917727
PH
1908PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
1909 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
1910 and treats the condition as false.
1911
096fee00
PH
1912PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
1913
024bd3c2
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1914PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
1915 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
1916 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
1917 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
1918 not changing the active code.
1919
1920 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
1921 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
1922
1923 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
1924 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
1925
df199fec
PH
1926PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
1927 (Bugzilla #53).
1928
d27f1df3
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1929PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
1930 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
1931 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
1932 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
1933 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
1934 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
1935 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
1936 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
1937 the text comparison.
1938
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1939PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
1940 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
1941 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
1942 The same fix has been applied.
1943
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1945Exim version 4.54
1946-----------------
1947
1948PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
1949 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
1950 It now does.
1951
99a4b039
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1952PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
1953 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
1954
1955PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
1956
4b233853
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1957PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
1958 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
1959 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
1960 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
1961 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
1962
8857ccfd
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1963TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
1964 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
1965 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
1966 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
1967 or /domain=).
1968
433a2980
PH
1969PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
1970 testing suite.
1971
3e46c1aa 1972
9a799bc0 1973
e3a311ba
TK
1974Exim version 4.53
1975-----------------
1976
1977TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
1978 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
1979
13b685f9
PH
1980PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
1981
395ff96d
PH
1982PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
1983
5b68f6e4
PH
1984PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
1985 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
1986 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
1987
1ab52c69
PH
1988PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
1989 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
1990 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
1991
b07e6aa3
PH
1992PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
1993 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
1994 operating systems.
1995
254e032f
PH
1996PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
1997 ${stat: expansion item.
1998
3af76a81
PH
1999PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2000 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2001
2548ba04
PH
2002PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2003 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2004 file for comments.
2005
b6c6011d
PH
2006PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2007
cf39cf57
PH
2008PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2009 setting.
2010
f1513293
PH
2011PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2012 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2013
727549a4
PH
2014TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2015
af46795e
PH
2016PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2017 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2018 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2019 the end of the subprocess.
2020
d7b47fd0
PH
2021PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2022 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2023 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2024 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2025 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2026
ee744174
JJ
2027JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2028
b582ab87
PH
2029TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2030
41a13e0a
PH
2031PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2032 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2033
f625cc5a
PH
2034PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2035
2036PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2037
21f7af35
PH
2038PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2039 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2040 HP-UX compiler.
2041
31480e42
PH
2042PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2043
2d280592
PH
2044PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2045 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2046 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2047
7cd1141b
PH
2048PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2049 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2050
2051PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2052 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2053
750af86e
PH
2054PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2055 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2056
2057 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2058 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2059
2060 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2061 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2062 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2063 contributed by a Radius user.
2064
2065PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2066 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2067
4304270b
TK
2068TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2069 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2070
750af86e
PH
2071PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2072 available.
2073
64ffc24f
PH
2074PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2075 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2076 received.
2077
5dd9625b
PH
2078PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2079 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2080 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2081 header lines when this was not necessary.
2082
5591031b
PH
2083PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2084
ba18e66a
PH
2085PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2086 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2087 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2088 exists".
2089
9cec981f
PH
2090PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2091 -bV or -d is used.
2092
aa2b5c79
PH
2093PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2094 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2095 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2096 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2097
48a53b7f
PH
2098PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2099
1c59d63b
PH
2100PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2101
671012da
TK
2102TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2103
1509d3a8
PH
2104PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2105
2106PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2107 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2108 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2109 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2110 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2111 settings.
2112
2113PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2114
2fe1a124
PH
2115PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2116 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2117 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2118 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2119 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2120 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2121 which is clearly wrong.
2122
8800895a
PH
2123PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2124
ccfdb010
PH
2125PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2126 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2127 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2128 subsequently added.
2129
1130bfb0
PH
2130PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2131 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2132
ebcb507f
PH
2133PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2134
c35e155c
PH
2135PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2136 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2137
95d1f782
PH
2138PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2139 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2140
fd6de02e
PH
2141PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2142 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2143
58de37c5
PH
2144PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2145 recipients, not senders.
2146
261cf466
TF
2147TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2148 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2149
3ee512ff
PH
2150PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2151
e08c430f
PH
2152PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2153
bef5a11f
PH
2154PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2155 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2156 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2157 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2158
7546de58
TF
2159TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2160
e5d5a95f
TF
2161TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2162 clock is set back in time.
2163
2e88a017
TF
2164TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2165 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2166
a5f65aa4
TF
2167TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2168 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2169
e7726cbf
PH
2170PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2171 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2172 (see PH/47 above).
2173
a7fdad5b
TF
2174TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2175 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2176 header rewrites.
2177
6af56900
PH
2178PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2179 type ("H").
2180
0925ede6
PH
2181PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2182
66afa403
TF
2183TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2184 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2185 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2186
0154e85a
TF
2187TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2188 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2189 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2190 helo verification defer as a failure.
2191
16f12c76
PH
2192PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2193 actual error message.
2194
bbe902f0 2195
e5a9dba6
PH
2196Exim version 4.52
2197-----------------
2198
2199TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2200
22c3b60b
PH
2201PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2202 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2203 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2204 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2205
06a9b4b5
PH
2206TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2207
c1ac6996
PH
2208PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2209 can still be requested.
2210
9c7a242c
PH
2211PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2212 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2213 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2214 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2215
87ba3f5f
PH
2216TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2217 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2218 circumstances, but probably never did.
2219
2220PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2221 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2222 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2223 in the header line.
2224
29aba418
TF
2225TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2226
fe0dab11
TF
2227TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2228 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2229
11d337a4
TK
2230TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2231
2232TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2233
415c8f3b
PH
2234PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2235 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2236 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2237 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2238 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2239 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2240
958541e9
PH
2241PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2242 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2243 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2244 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2245 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2246 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2247
c206415f
TK
2248TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2249 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2250
2a4be8f9
PH
2251PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2252 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2253
1cba11c5
SC
2254SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2255 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2256
2257SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2258
2259SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2260
2261SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2262
2263SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2264
2265SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2266
2267SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2268
1005d00e
TK
2269TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2270
2271TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2272 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2273 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2274
2275TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2276 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2277 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2278 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2279
9b4768fa
PH
2280PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2281 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2282 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2283
2284PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2285 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2286 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2287 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2288
0d7eb84a
PH
2289PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2290 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2291 to be made).
2292
2293PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2294 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2295 should work with maildirs and everything.
2296
40727bee
TK
2297TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2298 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2299
554d2369
TF
2300TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2301 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2302
1f922db1
PH
2303PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2304 function for BDB 4.3.
2305
ef213c3b
PH
2306PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2307
8ac170f3
PH
2308PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2309 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2310 involved.
2311
b1c749bb
PH
2312PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2313 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2314 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2315 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2316 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2317 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2318
4aac9b49
PH
2319PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2320 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2321 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2322 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2323 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2324 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2325 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2326 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2327
294520c8
TK
2328TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2329 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2330 details.
2331
5bd022fe
PH
2332PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2333 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2334
90e9ce59
PH
2335PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2336 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2337 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2338 test. It is now used for both.
2339
5ea81592
PH
2340PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2341 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2342 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2343 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2344 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2345 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2346
c6c2dc1d
PH
2347PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2348 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2349 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2350 string_vformat().
2351
fffffe4c
PH
2352PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2353 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2354 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 2355
9a26b6b2
PH
2356PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2357 experimental DomainKeys support:
2358
2359 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2360 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2361 the control was given.
2362
2363 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2364
4aee0225
PH
2365PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2366
32d668a5
PH
2367PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2368
8187c3f3
PH
2369PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2370 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2371 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2372 db.h files).
2373
ff790e47 2374PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
2375 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2376 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2377 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2378 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2379 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2380 course.
ff790e47 2381
5417f6d1
PH
2382PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2383 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2384 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2385 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2386 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2387 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2388
59cf8544
PH
2389PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2390 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2391 do -d+all out of habit.
2392
e7ad8a65
PH
2393PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2394 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2395 x86_64 Fedora Core.
2396
ade42478
PH
2397PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2398 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2399 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2400 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2401 record types that Exim uses.
2402
182ad5cf
PH
2403PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2404 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2405 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2406 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2407 non-existent file that was broken.
2408
b0d9fc80
TK
2409TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2410 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2411
2412TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2413 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2414 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2415
2416TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2417
47c7a64a
PH
2418PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2419 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2420 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2421 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2422 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2423 same time.
2424
a388bce4
SC
2425SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2426 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2427 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2428 at a slight CPU cost.
2429
2430SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2431 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2432
2433SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2434 by Marc Sherman.
2435
0793e4ed
SC
2436SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2437
c58b88df
PH
2438PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2439 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2440
e7ad8a65 2441
7982096b
PH
2442Exim version 4.51
2443-----------------
2444
1a46a8c5
PH
2445TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2446 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2447
2f079f46 2448TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
2449
2450TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2451
2452PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2453 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2454
2455PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2456 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2457 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2458 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2459 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2460 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2461 file.
2462
2463PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2464 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2465 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2466 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2467 these two options.
2468
2469PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2470 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2471 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2472 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2473 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2474 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2475 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 2476 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
2477
2478PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2479 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2480
2481PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2482 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2483 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2484 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2485 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2486 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2487
2488PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2489 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2490 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2491 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2492
2493PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2494 Finch).
2495
2496PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2497 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 2498
49c2d5ea
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2499PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2500 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
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2501 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2502 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2503 message.
49c2d5ea 2504
bf759a8b
PH
2505PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2506
83364d30
PH
2507PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2508 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2509
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2510PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2511 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2512 to what was transported.)
2513
7dbf77c9
PH
2514TF/01 Added $received_time.
2515
74e0617f
PH
2516PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2517 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2518 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2519 spamd_address settings.
2520
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2521PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2522 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2523 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2524 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2525 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2526
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2527PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2528
7766a4f0
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2529PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2530 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2531 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2532 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2533 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2534
8b417f2c
PH
2535PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2536 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2537
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2538PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2539 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2540 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2541 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2542 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2543 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2544 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2545 for failure.
2546
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2547PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2548 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2549 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2550 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2551 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2552 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2553 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2554 "input=".
2555
54cdb463
PH
2556PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2557
cf00dad6
PH
2558PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2559 driver and ACL definitions.
2560
acb1b346
PH
2561PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2562 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2563
c5ddb310
PH
2564PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2565 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2566 understands it better than I do:
2567
2568 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2569 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2570
2571 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2572 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2573 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2574 => three warnings about OTP not working
2575 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2576
2577 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2578 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2579 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2580 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2581 for each call.)
2582 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2583 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2584
2585 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2586 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2587 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2588
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2589PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2590 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2591 specified.
2592
bebaf0fc
PH
2593PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2594 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2595 "Linux".
2596
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PH
2597PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2598 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2599 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2600
2601 warn !verify = sender
2602 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
2603
2604 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
2605 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
2606
7e8bec7a
PH
2607PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
2608
2609 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
2610 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
2611
2612 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
2613 nomenclature these days.)
2614
e4a89c47
PH
2615PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
2616 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
2617
5ca2a9a1
PH
2618PH/30 In these circumstances:
2619 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
2620 . First host does not offer TLS;
2621 . First host accepts first address;
2622 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
2623 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
2624 . Second host accepts second address.
2625 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
2626 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
2627 address.
7e8bec7a 2628
c688b954
PH
2629PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
2630 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
2631 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
2632 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
2633 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
2634
fed77020
PH
2635PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
2636 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
2637
7fe1560f
PH
2638PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
2639 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 2640
ebb6e6d5
PH
2641PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
2642 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
2643 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
2644
9c4e8f60
PH
2645PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
2646 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
2647 overlooked.
2648
2649PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
2650
d7174846
PH
2651PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
2652 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
2653 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
2654 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
2655 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
2656 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
2657 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
2658
2659 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
2660 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
2661 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
2662 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
2663 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
2664
2665 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
2666 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
2667 routed further.
2668
cfe75fc3
PH
2669PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
2670 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
2671 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
2672 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
2673 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
2674 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
2675
be22d70e
PH
2676PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
2677
0612b098
PH
2678PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
2679 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
2680 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
2681 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
2682 printable escape sequences.
2683
2e0c1448
PH
2684PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
2685 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
2686 body only.
2687
447d236c
PH
2688PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
2689 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
2690 are as follows:
2691
2692 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
2693 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
2694 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
2695 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
2696 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
2697
2698 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
2699 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
2700 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
2701
d20976dc
PH
2702PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
2703
f656d135
PH
2704PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
2705 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
2706 play with."
2707
2e2a30b4
PH
2708PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
2709 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
2710 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
2711 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
2712 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
2713 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
2714 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
2715 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
2716 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
2717 the log output.
2718
9176e9f0
PH
2719PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
2720 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
2721 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
2722 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
2723 "make".
2724
7982096b 2725
bbe902f0
PH
2726A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
2727----------------------------------------
2728
2729Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
2730changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
2731needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
2732in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
2733that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
2734release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
2735from 4.43.
2736
2737I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
27384.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
2739those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
2740historical information.
2741
2742
f7b63901 2743Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
2744-----------------
2745
5fe762f6
PH
2746 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
2747
139059f6 2748 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 2749 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 2750
7086e875
PH
2751 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
2752 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
2753 place.
2754
35af9f61
PH
2755 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
2756 filter fails to execute.
2757
b668c215
PH
2758 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
2759 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
2760 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
2761 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
2762 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
2763
a494b1e1
PH
2764 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
2765
2766 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
2767 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
2768 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
2769 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 2770
c5fcb476
PH
2771 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
2772 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
2773 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
2774 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
2775 control that does not make sense is encountered.
2776
69358f02
PH
2777 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
2778
5be20824
PH
277910. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
2780
eb2c0248
PH
278111. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
2782 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
2783 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
2784 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
2785
2a3eea10
PH
278612. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
2787 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
2788 sender verification.
2789
279013. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
2791 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
2792
23c7ff99
PH
279314. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
2794
4deaf07d
PH
279515. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
2796 connection timeout.
2797
926e1192
PH
279816. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
2799 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
2800
650edc6f
PH
280117. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
2802 the spool by the -Mrm option.
2803
2c7db3f5
PH
280418. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
2805 information about exactly what failed.
2806
3d235903
PH
280719. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
2808
7c7ad977
PH
280920. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
2810 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
2811 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
2812
981756db
PH
281321. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
2814 It is now set to "smtps".
2815
d4eb88df
PH
281622. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
2817 ignore_target_hosts.
2818
281923. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
2820 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
2821 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
2822 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
2823 "[x.x.x.x]".
2824
7d468ab8
PH
282524. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
2826 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
2827 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
2828
282925. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
2830 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
2831 wake it up if nothing else does.
2832
62c0818f
PH
283326. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
2834 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
2835 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
2836 end up negative.
2837
26034054
PH
283827. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
2839 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
2840
af66f652
PH
284128. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
2842
90af77f4
PH
284329. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
2844 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
2845 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
2846 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
2847 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
2848 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
2849 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
2850 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
2851
d8ef3577
PH
285230. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
2853 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
2854 than one IP address.
2855
5cb8cbc6
PH
285631. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
2857 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
2858 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
2859 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
2860
14702f5b
PH
286132. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
2862 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
2863 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
2864 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
2865 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
2866 1024 to 2048 bytes.
2867
063b1e99
PH
286833. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
2869 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
2870 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
2871 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
2872
652e1b65
PH
287334. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
2874 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
2875 respected.
2876
6f0c9a4f
PH
287735. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
2878 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
2879 $sender_host_address.
2880
33397d19
PH
288136. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
2882 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
2883 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
2884 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
2885 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
2886 very small.
2887
7bb56e1f
PH
288837. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
2889
2890 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
2891 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
2892
ea3bc19b
PH
2893 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
2894 just the host names, not the priorities.
2895
2896 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
2897 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
2898 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 2899
ea3bc19b 2900 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 2901 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 2902
0bcb2a0e
PH
290338. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
2904 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
2905 domain.
2906
2ac0e484
PH
290739. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
2908
4e1fde53
PH
290940. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
2910 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
2911
de365ded
PH
291241. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
2913 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
2914 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
2915
f05da2e8
PH
291642. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
2917
d6453af2
PH
291843. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
2919
f7b63901
PH
292044. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
2921
292245. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
2923 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
2924 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
2925 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
2926 because the tests only now provoked it.
2927
a444213a
PH
292846. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
2929 (this can affect the format of dates).
2930
0ec020ea
PH
293147. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
2932 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
2933 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
2934 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
2935
b1206957
PH
293648. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
2937
293849. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
2939 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
2940 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
2941 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
2942
26dd5a95
PH
294350. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
2944 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
2945 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
2946
343b2385
PH
294751. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
2948 autoreply.
2949
1c5466b9
PH
295052. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
2951 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
2952 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
2953 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
2954 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
2955 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
2956 is going on).
2957
55ee9ee3
PH
295853. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
2959 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
2960 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
2961 the line.
2962
d38f8232
PH
296354. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
2964 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
2965 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
2966
2967 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
2968 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
2969 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
2970 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
2971 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
2972 so I produce this patch..."
2973
3295e65b
PH
2974 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
2975 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
2976 is not defined.
2977
7102e136
PH
297855. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
2979 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
2980 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
2981 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 2982 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 2983
3ca0ba97
PH
298456. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
2985
c2bcbe20
PH
298657. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
2987 long debug lines gets shown.
2988
18ce445d
PH
298958. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
2990 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
2991
1f5b4c3d
PH
299259. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
2993
2994 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
2995 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
2996 of $primary_hostname.
2997
b975ba52
PH
299860. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
2999 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3000 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3001 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3002 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3003 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3004 by change 4.50/55 above.
3005
3006 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3007 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3008 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3009 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3010 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3011 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3012 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3013
301461. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3015 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3016 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3017 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3018
17ffcae7
PH
301962. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3020 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3021
d95f9fdb
PH
302263. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3023 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3024 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3025 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3026 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3027
86b8287f
PH
302864. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3029 This has been fixed.
3030
60dc5e56
PH
303165. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3032 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3033 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3034 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3035 the caching.)
3036
533244af
PH
303766. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3038
a5a28604
PH
303967. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3040 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3041 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3042 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3043
7e634d24
PH
304468. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3045 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3046
3e11c26b
PH
304769. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3048 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3049 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3050
6729cf78
PH
305170. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3052 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3053 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3054 message there.
3055
00f00ca5
PH
305671. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3057 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3058 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3059
c9bdd01c
PH
306072. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3061 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3062 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3063 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3064
d43194df
PH
306573. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3066 during host lookups.
3067
fe5b5d0b
PH
306874. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3069 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3070
3071 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3072
76a2d7ba
PH
307375. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3074 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3075 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3076 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3077 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3078 background.
3079
308076. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3081 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3082
04f7d5b9
PH
308377. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3084 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3085 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3086
bc60667e
PH
308778. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3088
bb6e88ff
PH
308979. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3090 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3091 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3092 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3093 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3094 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3095 process earlier.
3096
1e70f85b
PH
309780. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3098 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3099 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3100 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3101 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3102
310381. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3104 tables).
3105
4e01f9d6
PH
310682. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3107
1ee1cef2
PH
310883. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3109 "vacation" handling.
3110
6e2b4ccc
PH
311184. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3112 OS variants using glibc.
3113
8e669ac1
PH
311485. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3115
495ae4b0 3116
bbe902f0
PH
3117----------------------------------------------------
3118See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3119----------------------------------------------------
3120
3121
3122Exim version 4.44
3123-----------------
3124
3125 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3126 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3127 transport
3128
3129 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3130 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3131 place.
3132
3133 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3134 filter fails to execute.
3135
3136 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3137 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3138 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3139 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3140 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3141
3142 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3143 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3144 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3145 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3146
3147 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3148 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3149 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3150 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3151 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3152
3153 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3154
3155 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3156 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3157 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3158 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3159
3160 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3161 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3162 sender verification.
3163
316410. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3165 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3166
316711. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3168 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3169
317012. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3171 ignore_target_hosts.
3172
317313. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3174 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3175 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3176 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3177 "[x.x.x.x]".
3178
317914. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3180 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3181 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3182
318315. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3184 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3185 wake it up if nothing else does.
3186
318716. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3188 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3189 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3190 end up negative.
3191
319217. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3193 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3194
ea3a6f44 319518. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3196
319719. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3198 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3199 empty pattern.
3200
320120. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3202 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3203 one IP address.
3204
ea3a6f44
NM
320521. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3206 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3207 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3208 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3209 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3210 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3211
ea3a6f44
NM
321222. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3213 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3214 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3215
321623. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3217 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3218 $sender_host_address.
3219
322024. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3221
ea3a6f44
NM
322225. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3223 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3224 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3225
322626. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3227 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3228
ea3a6f44
NM
322927. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3230 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3231
ea3a6f44
NM
323228. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3233 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3234 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3235 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3236
323729. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3238 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3239 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3240
ea3a6f44
NM
324130. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3242 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3243 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3244 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3245
ea3a6f44
NM
324631. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3247 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3248 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3249
ea3a6f44
NM
325031. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3251 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3252
ea3a6f44
NM
325332. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3254 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3255 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3256 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3257 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3258 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3259 is going on).
bbe902f0 3260
ea3a6f44
NM
326133. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3262 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3263 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3264 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3265 CAN-2005-0021
3266
ea3a6f44
NM
326734. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3268 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3269 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3270 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3271 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3272 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3273 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3274
3275 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3276 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3277 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3278 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3279 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3280 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3281 CAN-2005-0021
3282
ea3a6f44
NM
328335. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3284 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3285 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3286 CAN-2005-0022
3287
ea3a6f44
NM
328836. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3289 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3290 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3291 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3292 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3293
ea3a6f44
NM
329437. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3295 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3296 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3297 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3298 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3299
ea3a6f44
NM
330038. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3301 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3302 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3303 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3304 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3305
3306
495ae4b0
PH
3307Exim version 4.43
3308-----------------
3309
3310 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3311 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3312 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3313 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3314 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3315 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3316 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3317
3318 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3319 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3320 the delivery.
3321
3322 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3323
3324 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3325
3326 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3327 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3328 to local_scan().
3329
3330 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3331 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3332 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3333 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3334 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3335
3336 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3337 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3338
3339 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3340
3341 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3342
334310. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3344 header_sender only.
3345
334611. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3347 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3348
334912. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3350 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3351 affecting debugging statements).
3352
335313. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3354
335514. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3356 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3357 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3358 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3359 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3360 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3361 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3362 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3363 after the received time, and all would be well.
3364
336515. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3366 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3367 condition in an expansion string.
3368
336916. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3370
337117. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3372 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3373 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3374 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3375 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3376 job under whatever limits there are.
3377
337818. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3379
338019. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3381 space).
3382
338320. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3384 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3385 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3386 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3387 return path is set.
3388
338921. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3390 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3391 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3392 binary data in such strings.
3393
339422. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3395
339623. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3397 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3398 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3399 failure, which is pointless.
3400
340124. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3402
340325. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3404
340526. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3406 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3407 Sender: header lines.
3408
340927. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3410 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3411 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3412
341328. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3414 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3415 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3416 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3417 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3418 happens.
3419
342029. The long-running daemon pro