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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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5Exim version 4.84
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7TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
8 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
9 return.
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12Exim version 4.83
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15TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
16
17 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
18 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
19 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
20 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
21 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
22 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
23
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24TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
25 utilities have not been installed.
26
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27JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
28 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
29
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30TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
31 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
32
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33TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
34 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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35 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
36 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
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38JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
39
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40TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
41 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
42
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43PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
44 not dns_use_dnssec.
45
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46JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
47
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48TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
49 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
50 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
51
8ddef691 52TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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53 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
54 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
55 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
56 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 57 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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59JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
60
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61JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
62 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
63
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64JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
65 failed delivery.
66
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67JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
68
511a6c14 69JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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71JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
72 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 73
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74JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
75 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
76
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77TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
78
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79JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
80
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81JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
82 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
83
84 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
85 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
86 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
87
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88TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
89 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
90 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
91 analysis.
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93JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
94
8c51eead 95JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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96 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
97 lookup).
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99TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
100 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
101 Schlichting.
35aba663 102
fd3b6a4a 103JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 104 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 105
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106TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
107 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
108
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109JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
110
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111TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
112 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
113 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
114
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115JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
116 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
117
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118JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
119 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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120 hosts_request_ocsp.
121
ed3bba5f 122JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 123 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 124 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 125
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126JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
127
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128TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
129 Christian Aistleitner.
130
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131JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
132
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133TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
134 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
135
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136JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
137 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
138
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139JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
140 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
141
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142TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
143 support and error reporting did not work properly.
144
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145TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
146 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
147
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148TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
149 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
150 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
151
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152JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
153
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154PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
155 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
156 Jasper Wallace.
157
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158JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
159
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160TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
161 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
162 CVE-2014-2972
163
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2c422e6f 165Exim version 4.82
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167
168PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
169
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170PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
171 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
172
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173PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
174 by GnuTLS.
175
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176PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
177 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
178 routines.
179
13363eba 180PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 181
66645890 182PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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183 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
184 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
185 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
186 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 187
a3fb9793 188PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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189 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
190 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
191 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 192 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 193 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 194
d27f98fe 195TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 196
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197TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
198
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199TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
200 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
201
ae0e32ee 202TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 203 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 204 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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206TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 207
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208TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
209
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210TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
211 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
212
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213JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
214
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215JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
216
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217PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
218
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219NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
220 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
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585121e2 222JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
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224PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
225 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
226 function.
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228PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
229 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
230
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231JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
232 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
233 "acl = name arg..."
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235JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
236
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237JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
238
ea722490 239JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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240 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
241
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242JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
243 Bugzilla 884.
244
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245JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
246 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
247
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248JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
249 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
250
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251PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
252 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 253 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 254
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255JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
256 authenticators.
257
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258JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
259 for control.
260
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261PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
262
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263PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
264 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
265 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
266 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
267
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268TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
269
270 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
271 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
272 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
273 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
274 the retry rules.
275
276 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
277 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
278 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
279
280 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
281 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
282 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
283 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
284
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285 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
286 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
287 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
288 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
289 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
290 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
291 delivery, as in LMTP.
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293 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
294 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
295
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296TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
297
298 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
299
300 Resent-From: f
301
302 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
303 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
304 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
305 username as equal to the username.
306
307 This change corrects that bug.
308
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309GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
310 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
311 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
312
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313TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
314
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315PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
316 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
317 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
318 NULL dereference and crash.
319
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320JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
321
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322PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
323 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
324 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
325
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326SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
327
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328JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
329 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
330 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
331 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
332 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
333 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
334 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
335 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
336 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
337 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
338 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
339
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340PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
341 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
342
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343PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
344 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
345 Bugzilla 880.
346
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347PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
348 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
349 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
350 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
351 an empty string is now equivalent.
352
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353PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
354 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
355 not performing validation itself.
356
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357PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
358 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
359
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360JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
361 Bugzilla 321, 823.
362
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363TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
364
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365PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
366 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
367 other false fix of the same issue.
368 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
369 Bugzilla 1363.
370
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371PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
372 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
373
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374PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
375 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
376 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
377
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378PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
379 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
380 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
381
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382TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
383
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384JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
385
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386TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
387 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
388
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389TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
390 Alexander Miroch.
391
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392TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
393 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
394 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
395 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
396 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 397
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398TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
399 the src/util/ subdirectory.
400
581d7bee 401TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 402 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
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403 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
404
405TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
406 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
407 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
408 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
409
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410TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
411
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412TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
413 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
414 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 415
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416TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
417
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418TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
419 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
420 interaction.
421
422TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
423 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
424
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425TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
426 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
427
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431
432PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
433 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 434 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
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439
440PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
441 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
442 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
443
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444NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
445
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446NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
447 improved.
448
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449NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
450
c1e794ba 451PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 452
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453PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
454
455PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
456 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
457
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458PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
459 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
460
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461PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
462 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
463
f1e05cc7 464PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
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465 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
466 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 467
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468PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
469
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470PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
471 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
472
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473PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
474
c45dd180 475PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 476
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477PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
478 non-compliant senders.
479 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
480
eae0036b 481NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
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482 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
483 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
484
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485PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
486 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
487 in spool file corruption.
488
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489PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
490 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
491 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
492 "Got SSL error 2".
493
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494TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
495 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
496 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
497
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498JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
499 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
500
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501JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
502
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503PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
504 diagnostics.
505 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
506
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507PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
508 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
509 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
510
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511PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
512 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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513 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
514 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 515
ef840681
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516PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
517 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
518
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519PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
520 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
521 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
522 resolver implementation change.
523
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524PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
525 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
526
9cbad13b
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527PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
528
9ee44efb
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529PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
530
6a6084f8
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531PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
532 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
533
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534PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
535 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
536
9e45c72b 537JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
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538 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
539
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540PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
541 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
542 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
543 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 544 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 545
53947857 546PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 547
eae0036b 548PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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549 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
550 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 551
9e45c72b 552JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 553
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554PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
555 read-only, out of scope).
556 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
557
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558PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
559 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
560 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
561 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
562
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563PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
564
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565PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
566 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
567 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
568 real issues in debug logging.
569
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570PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
571 assignment on my part. Fixed.
572
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573PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
574 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
575 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
576
577PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
578 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
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579 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
580 problems.
3375e053 581
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582PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
583 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
584
57eb9e91 585PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
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586 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
587 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
588 needs to override this, it can.
589
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590PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
591 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
592 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
593
a799883d
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594PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
595 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
596 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
597 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
598
3ecab157 599PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 600
0599f9cf 601
867fcbf5
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602Exim version 4.77
603-----------------
604
605PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
606 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
607
f1a29782
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608TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
609
ab42bd23
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610TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
611 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 612
0ca0cf52
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613TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
614 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
615
921b12ca
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616TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
617 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
618 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
619
620 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
621 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
622 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
623 not safe for signals.
624
625 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
626 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
627 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
628 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
629 exiwhat.
630
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631TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
632
633 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
634 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
635 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
636 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
637 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
638
639 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
640 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
641 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
642 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
643 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
644 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
645
646 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
647 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
648 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
649 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
650
651 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
652 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
653 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
654 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
655
656 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
657 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
658 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
659 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
660 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
661 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
662 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
663 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
664 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
665
666 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
667 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
668 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
669 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
670
671 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
672 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
673 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
674 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
675 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
676 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
677 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
678 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
679 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
680 details in the main documentation.
681
3634fc25
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682TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
683
792e8a19
TF
684TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
685
5901f0ab
TF
686TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
687 repository when doing development or release builds.
688
7f2a2a43
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689PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
690 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 691
061b7ebd
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692PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
693 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
694 Bugzilla 97.
695
e12f8c32
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696PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
697
9e949f00 698PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
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699 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
700
701PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
702 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 703
555ae6af 704PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
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705 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
706
707PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
708 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 709
6f7fe114
PP
710PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
711 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
712
c566dd90
PP
713PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
714 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
715 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
716 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 717
d6cc7c78 718PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
719 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
720 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
721
0d0e4455
PP
722PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
723
3399bb60 724PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
725
726PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
727 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
728
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730Exim version 4.76
731-----------------
732
733PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
734
754a0503
PP
735PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
736 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
737
c0c7b2da
PP
738PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
739
e97d1f08
PP
740PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
741
084c1d8c
PP
742PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
743 Bugzilla 1098.
744
4e7ee012
PP
745PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
746 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 747
c8d52a00
PP
748TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
749 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
750
54e7ce4a
PP
751PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
752 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
753
5ee6f336
PP
754PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
755 Bugzilla 1104.
756
c8d52a00 757TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
758 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
759
760TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
761 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
762 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
763 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
764
765PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
766 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 767
10906672 768
aa097c4c
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769Exim version 4.75
770-----------------
771
4c9ef03a 772NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
773 Bugzilla 1073
774
7f3d9eff
TF
775TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
776 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
777 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
778
159f52d2
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779TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
780 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
781
0cc9542a
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782PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
783 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
784 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
785
f7274286
PP
786PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
787 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
788
7b797365
PP
789PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
790 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
791
caacae52
NM
792NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
793 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
794
09dcaba9
NM
795NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
796 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
797
bc19a55b
PP
798PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
799 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 800
bd4c9759
NM
801NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
802 Fixes bug 943.
803
b72aab72
PP
804PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
805 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
806
2fe76745
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807PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
808 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
809
76aa570c
PP
810PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
811 SQL string expansion failure details.
812 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
813
f1e5fef5
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814PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
815 Patch from Simon Arlott.
816
4d805ee9
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817PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
818 extern declarations in function scope.
819 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
820
cd59ab18
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821PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
822 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
823 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
824 a kernel bug).
825
332f5cf3
PP
826PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
827 Patch from Mark Zealey.
828
29cfeb94
PP
829PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
830 Patch from Mark Zealey.
831
660242ad
PP
832PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
833 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
834
bc4bc4c5
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835PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
836 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
837
2e64baa9
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838NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
839 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
840 Dennis Davis.
841
bddd7526
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842PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
843
6bac1a9a
PP
844PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
845
552193f0
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846NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
847 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 848
1b587e48
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849TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
850 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
851
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853Exim version 4.74
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855
856TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
857 consequences so log it to the panic log.
858
c0ea85ab
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859TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
860 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
861
0761d44e
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862TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
863
0a349494
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864DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
865 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
866 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
867
868PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
869 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
870 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
871
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872PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
873 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
874 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
875 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
876
6545de78
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877PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
878 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
879 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
880 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
881
1670ef10
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882PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
883 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
884 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
885 arbitrary files.
886
c0886197
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887PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
888 (Wolfgang Breyha)
889
b7487bce
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890PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
891 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
892 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
893 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
894 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
895
8c07b69f 896
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899
900PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
901 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
902 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
903
6901c596
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904PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
905 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
906
a8c8d6b5
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907JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
908
77bb000f
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909PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
910
a29e5231
PP
911PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
912
ec5a0394 913PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 914
55c75993
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915PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
916
453a6645 917PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
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918 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
919 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
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920 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
921
8544e77a
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922PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
923 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
924 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
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925 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
926 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 927
83e029d5
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928PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
929
ed7f7860
PP
930PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
931
7d9f747b
PP
932PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
933
4b2241d2
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934PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
935
10385c15
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936PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
937
dbc4b90d
PP
938PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
939
532be449
PP
940PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
941
6a8de854 942PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
943 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
944 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 945
5dc43717
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946JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
947
948JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
949 "exim" to be used
55c75993 950
3346ab01
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951PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
952 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
953
491fab4c
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954PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
955 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
956 Notification from John Horne.
957
13eb9497
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958PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
959 compatible.
960
961PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
962 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
963 it normally works.
964
7f36d675
DW
965DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
966 access.
967
c1d94452
DW
968DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
969 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
970 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
971
e2f5dc15
DW
972DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
973 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
974 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
975 configuration file.
976
cd25e41d
DW
977DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
978 option (effectively making it always true).
979
261dc43e
DW
980DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
981 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
982
fa32850b
DW
983DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
984 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
985
79d4bc3d
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986PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
987 run-time user, instead of root.
988
43236f35 989PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
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990 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
991
fb08281f
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992DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
993 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
994 arguments.
3346ab01 995
74935b98
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996DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
997 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
998 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
999
90b6341f
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1000DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1001
57730b52
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1002NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1003
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1007
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1008JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1009 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1010 typos
465e92cf 1011
453a6645
PP
1012JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1013 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1014 (Finput)
edae0343 1015
9bd3e22c
NM
1016NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1017 Patch from Alain Williams
1018
bb576ff7
NM
1019NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1020
5a1a5845
NM
1021NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1022 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1023
981a9fad
NM
1024NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1025 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1026
7fc497ee
NM
1027NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1028
1a41defa
JJ
1029JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1030
a466095c 1031NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1032 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1033
94a6bd0b
NM
1034TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1035
1036TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1037
1038MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1039 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1040 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1041
c1b141a8
NM
1042NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1043 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1044
b26eacf1 1045NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1046 Patch by Simon Arlott
1047
179c5980 1048PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1049 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1050
9bd3e22c 1051
7c6d71af
NM
1052Exim version 4.71
1053-----------------
1054
7d9f747b 1055TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1056
f013fb92
NM
1057NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1058
0eb8eedd
NM
1059NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1060
663ee6d9
NM
1061NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1062
177ebd9b
NM
1063NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1064
7c6d71af 1065
210f147e
NM
1066Exim version 4.70
1067-----------------
1068
cdd3bb85 1069TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1070 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1071
1072TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1073 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1074 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1075
1076TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1077 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1078 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1079
1080TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1081 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1082
210f147e
NM
1083NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1084 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1085 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1086 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1087
deafd5b3
NM
1088NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1089 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1090 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1091
089793a4
TF
1092TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1093
5f16ca82
TF
1094TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1095
dae9d94e 1096NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1097 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1098
7d9f747b 1099NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1100
06864c44
TF
1101TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1102 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1103 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1104 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1105
65a7d8c3 1106NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1107 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1108
23510047 1109TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1110
7d9f747b 1111NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1112
7d8eec3a 1113NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1114 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1115
89dec7b6
TF
1116TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1117 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1118
a99de90c
TF
1119TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1120 that they are available at delivery time.
1121
e2803e40
TF
1122TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1123
7199e1ee
TF
1124TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1125 incoming_port log selectors.
1126
e276e04b
TF
1127TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1128 setting expands to an empty string.
1129
ce552449 1130NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1131 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1132
e765a0f1 1133NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1134 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1135
4f054c63 1136NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1137 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1138
7d9f747b
PP
1139NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1140 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1141
7d9f747b
PP
1142NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1143 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1144
b52bc06e 1145NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1146 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1147
447de4b0
NM
1148NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1149
4c69d561 1150NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1151 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1152
d5c39246 1153NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1154 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1155
0b23848a
TK
1156TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1157
8f3414a1 1158NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1159 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1160
fb6f955d
NM
1161NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1162
1163NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1164
7d9f747b
PP
1165NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1166 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1167
7d9f747b
PP
1168NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1169 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1170
7d9f747b
PP
1171NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1172 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1173
7d9f747b
PP
1174NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1175 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1176
7d9f747b
PP
1177NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1178 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1179
7d9f747b
PP
1180NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1181 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1182
7d9f747b
PP
1183NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1184 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1185
7d9f747b 1186NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1187 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1188
7d9f747b 1189NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1190
7d9f747b
PP
1191NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1192 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1193
7d9f747b 1194NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1195
7d9f747b 1196NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1197
7d9f747b 1198NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1199
7d9f747b 1200NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1201
17792b53 1202NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1203 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1204
7d9f747b
PP
1205NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1206 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1207
91576cec 1208NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1209 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1210
7d9f747b
PP
1211NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1212 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1213
7d9f747b 1214NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1215
7d9f747b 1216NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1217
7d9f747b 1218NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1219
7d9f747b 1220NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1221
deafd5b3 1222
47db1125
NM
1223Exim version 4.69
1224-----------------
1225
4b3504d0
TK
1226TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1227 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1228 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1229
1230 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1231 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1232 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1233 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1234 build errors in sieve.c.
1235
81ea09ca
NM
1236NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1237 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1238 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1239
f13cddcb
SC
1240SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1241
7d9f747b 1242NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1243
7d9f747b 1244NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1245
7d9f747b 1246NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1247
1248
eb4c0de6
PH
1249Exim version 4.68
1250-----------------
1251
1252PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1253
6a3bceb1
PH
1254PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1255 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1256 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1257 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1258 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1259 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1260 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1261 for iplsearch lookups.
1262
1263 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1264 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1265 previously such lookups could never work.
1266
1267 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1268 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1269 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1270
2e30fa9d
TK
1271TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1272 version.
1273
0806a9c5
MH
1274MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1275 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1276 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1277 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1278 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1279 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1280
ae276964
TK
1281TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1282 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1283
0f2cbd1b
MH
1284MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1285 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1286 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1287 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1288 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1289 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1290
2b85bce7
PH
1291PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1292 local_scan API.
1293
93655c46
PH
1294PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1295
6c512171
PH
1296PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1297 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1298 encrypted.
1299
1300PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1301 by clients under certain conditions.
1302
aa6dc513
PH
1303PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1304 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1305
a96603a0
PH
1306PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1307
8f240103
PH
1308PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1309 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1310
1311PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1312
d677b2f2
PH
1313PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1314
d52120f2
PH
1315PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1316
64f2600a
PH
1317PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1318 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1319
8669f003
PH
1320PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1321
a4dc33a8
PH
1322PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1323 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1324
d6a60c0f
PH
1325PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1326
8f128379
PH
1327PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1328
8932dffe
PH
1329PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1330 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1331 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1332 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1333
ddea74fa 1334PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1335 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1336 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1337
ddea74fa 1338PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1339 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1340
ddea74fa
PH
1341PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1342
ce9f225c
PH
1343PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1344
19897d52
PH
1345PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1346
bc64a74d
PH
1347PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1348 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1349 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1350
eb4c0de6 1351
b4ed4da0
PH
1352Exim version 4.67
1353-----------------
1354
22ad45c9
MH
1355MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1356 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1357 Jan Srzednicki.
1358
b4ed4da0
PH
1359PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1360 issue a MAIL command.
1361
431b7361
PH
1362PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1363
1364 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1365
1366 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1367 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1368 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1369 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1370 item. This has been fixed.
1371
1372PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1373 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1374
83da1223
PH
1375PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1376 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1377
54fc8428
PH
1378PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1379 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1380 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1381
34c5e8dd
SC
1382SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1383
bbe15da8
PH
1384PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1385 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1386 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1387 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1388 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1389
0e8a9471
MH
1390MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1391 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1392 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1393
f0872424
PH
1394PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1395 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1396 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1397 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1398
b01dd148
PH
1399PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1400
6bf342e1
PH
1401PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1402
273f34d0
PH
1403PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1404 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1405 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1406 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1407 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1408
cf8b11a5
PH
1409PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1410
41c7c167
PH
1411PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1412 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1413 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1414 values).
1415
9c57cbc0
PH
1416PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1417
f3f065bb
PH
1418PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1419
047bdd8c
PH
1420PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1421
0ce9abe6
PH
1422PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1423
0e22dfd1
PH
1424PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1425
4c590bd1
PH
1426PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1427 no_callout_flush is set.
1428
09945f1e
PH
1429PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1430 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1431 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1432 fixed.
1433
c51b8e75
PH
1434PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1435
e28326d8
PH
1436PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1437 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1438 other ACL rejections are.
1439
75b1493f
PH
1440PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1441 with slight modification.
1442
7c5214ec
PH
1443PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1444 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1445
4311097e
PH
1446PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1447 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1448 connection.
1449
29f89cad
PH
1450PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1451 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1452
5e687460
SC
1453SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1454
c3611384
PH
1455PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1456 expansion side effects.
1457
5a11a7b4
PH
1458PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1459 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1460 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1461 be the same.
1462
0e20aff9
MH
1463MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1464 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1465 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1466
ca86f471
PH
1467PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1468 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1469 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1470 were accidentally chopped off.
1471
a14e5636
PH
1472PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1473 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1474 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1475 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1476 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1477 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1478 pipelining has not been advertised.
1479
ec95d1a6
PH
1480PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1481
42855d71
PH
1482PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1483 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1484 This has been fixed.
1485
57c2c631
PH
1486PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1487 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1488 reported on Solaris.
1489
58c01c94
PH
1490PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1491 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1492 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1493 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1494 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1495 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1496 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1497
dee5a20a
PH
1498PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1499 cpus.
1500
d2ee6114
PH
1501PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1502
b2d5182b
PH
1503PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1504
79749a79
PH
1505PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1506 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1507 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1508 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1509 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1510 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1511
c456d9bb
PH
1512PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1513 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1514 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1515 host_all_ignored option.
1516
cd9868ec
PH
1517PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1518 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1519 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1520 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1521 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1522 is what is supposed to happen).
1523
ebeaf996
PH
1524PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1525 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1526 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1527 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1528 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1529 uses the Exim user.
1530
2679d413
PH
1531PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1532 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1533 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1534 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1535 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1536 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1537 users.
1538
84024b72
PH
1539PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1540
8005d38e
SC
1541SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1542 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1543 (Jez Hancock).
1544 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1545 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1546
3298c6c6
SC
1547SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1548
a43a27c5
PH
1549PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1550
58eb016e 1551PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1552 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1553 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1554 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1555 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1556 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1557 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1558 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1559 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1560 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1561 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1562
b43a74ea
PH
1563PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1564 advertised in response to EHLO.
1565
b4ed4da0 1566
5dd1517f
PH
1567Exim version 4.66
1568-----------------
1569
1570PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1571 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1572
1573 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1574 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1575
1576 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1577 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1578 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1579
1580 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1581 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1582 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1583 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1584 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1585
1586
93cfa765
TK
1587Exim version 4.65
1588-----------------
1589
1590TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1591 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1592 versions. (#438)
1593
d6066548
MH
1594MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1595 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1596 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1597
4362ff0d
PH
1598PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1599 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1600 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1601 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1602 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1603 rather than extend the field.
1604
93cfa765 1605
944e9e9c
TF
1606Exim version 4.64
1607-----------------
aa41d2de 1608
21d74bd9
TK
1609TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1610 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1611 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1612 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1613 these files.
1614
1615TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1616 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1617 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1618
1619TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1620 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1621 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1622
1623TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1624 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1625 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1626 in the field name.
1627
2b1c6e3a
PH
1628PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1629 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1630 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1631 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1632 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1633 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1634 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1635 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1636 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1637 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1638 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1639
1f872c80
PH
1640PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1641 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1642
1643PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1644 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1645 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1646 ignores EPIPE as well.
1647
d203e649
PH
1648PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1649 (quoted-printable decoding).
1650
cc2ed8f7 1651PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1652 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1653
ddfcd446
PH
1654PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1655
d45b1de8
PH
1656PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1657
1658PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1659
38a0a95f 1660PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1661 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1662
a2405d83
JJ
1663JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1664 in 4.64-PH/09.
1665
1666JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1667 miscellaneous code fixes
1668
6ea85e9a
PH
1669PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1670 rejections.
1671
26da7e20
PH
1672PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1673 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1674 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1675 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1676 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1677 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1678 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1679 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1680
14aa5a05 1681PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1682 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1683 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1684 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1685 function.
1686 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1687 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1688 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1689 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1690 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1691 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1692 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1693 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1694 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1695
ff75a1f7
PH
1696PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1697 decoding.
1698
e6f6568e
PH
1699PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1700 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1701 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1702 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1703 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1704 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1705 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1706 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1707
d6f6e0dc
PH
1708PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1709 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1710 list.
1711
322050c2
PH
1712PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1713 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1714 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1715 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1716 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1717 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1718 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1719 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1720 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1721 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1722 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1723 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1724 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1725
08955dd3
PH
1726PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1727 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1728 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1729 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1730 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1731 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1732 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1733
1eccaa59
PH
1734PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1735 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1736 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1737 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1738 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1739 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1740 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1741 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1742 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1743 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1744
602e59e5
PH
1745PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1746 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1747 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1748 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1749 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1750
411ef850
PH
1751PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1752 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1753 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1754 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1755 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1756 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1757 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1758
7befa435
PH
1759PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1760 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1761 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1762 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1763 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1764 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1765 been verified.
1766
48da4259 1767PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1768 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1769 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1770 and authorization.)
1771
48da4259
PH
1772PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1773 if any retry times were supplied.
1774
d1d5595c
PH
1775PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1776 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1777 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1778
0ef732d9
PH
1779PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1780
328895cc
PH
1781PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1782
fd700877
PH
1783PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1784 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1785 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1786 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1787 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1788 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1789
8dce1a6f
PH
1790PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1791 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1792
17af4a17
PH
1793PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1794 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1795 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1796
1797PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1798 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1799 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1800 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1801 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1802 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1803 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1804 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1805 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1806
1807 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1808 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1809 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1810 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1811 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1812 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1813 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1814 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1815 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1816
1817 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1818 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1819 hammering the server.
1820
c1114884
PH
1821PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1822 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1823
7a0743eb
PH
1824PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1825
0d85fa3f
PH
1826PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1827 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1828 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1829
1bf43b78
PH
1830PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1831 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1832 one case where this was not true.
1833
520de300
PH
1834PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1835 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1836 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1837 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1838 fails.
1839
48c7f9e2
PH
1840PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1841 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1842 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1843 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1844 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1845 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1846 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1847 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1848 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1849 smtp transport.
1850
99ea1c86
PH
1851PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1852 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1853 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1854 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1855
a2042e78
PH
1856PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1857 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1858
4fbcfc2e
PH
1859PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1860 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1861 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1862
aa41d2de
PH
1863PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1864
af561417
PH
1865PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1866
3cc66b45
PH
1867PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1868
194cc0e4
PH
1869PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1870 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1871 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1872 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1873
a401ddaa
PH
1874PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1875 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1876
4e88a19f
PH
1877PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1878 be meaningful with "accept".
1879
d7d7b289
SC
1880SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1881 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1882
1883SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1884 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1885 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1886
1887SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1888 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1889 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1890 there is data to show.
1891 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1892
1893SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1894 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1895 as well as the number of messages.
1896
1897SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1898 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1899 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1900
1901SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1902 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1903 have a flag are now skipped.
1904
1905SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1906 Added the -emptyok flag.
1907
1908SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1909 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1910
0ea2a468
JJ
1911JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1912 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1913 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1914
1915JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1916 match 4.64-PH/13
1917
1918JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1919 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1920
1921JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1922
1923JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1924 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1925
8a10f5a4
PH
1926PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1927
30e18802
PH
1928PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1929 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1930 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1931 contravention of the specifications.
1932
55728a4f
PH
1933PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1934 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1935 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1936
d7837193
PH
1937PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1938 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1939 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1940
87054a31
PH
1941PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1942
ea2c01d2
MH
1943MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1944 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1945 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1946 some point in the past.
1947
e4fa6968
PH
1948PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1949 transport during callout processing was broken.
1950
56f5d9bd
PH
1951PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1952 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1953
922e1c28
PH
1954PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1955 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1956
21eb6e72
PH
1957PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1958 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1959
a0540757
PH
1960PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1961
944e9e9c 1962
478be7b0
SC
1963Exim version 4.63
1964-----------------
1965
1966SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1967 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1968
1969SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1970 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1971 there is data to show.
1972 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1973
1974SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1975 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1976
2b965a65
TF
1977TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1978 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1979
45b91596
PH
1980TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1981 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1982
c59f5781
TF
1983TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1984 submissions from trusted users.
1985
90fc3069
TF
1986TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1987 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1988
6083aca0
TF
1989TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1990 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1991 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1992 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1993 there is now a framework to start from.
1994
765b530f
PH
1995PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1996 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1997 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1998
4e167a8c
PH
1999PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2000
4608d683
PH
2001PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2002
b8dc3e4a
PH
2003PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2004
5418e93b
PH
2005PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2006 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2007 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2008
b4a9bda2
PH
2009PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2010 libradius.
2011
45b91596
PH
2012PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2013 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2014 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2015
5547e2c5
PH
2016PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2017 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2018 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2019 its arguments.
2020
dbcef0ea
PH
2021PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2022 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2023 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2024 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2025 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2026
25257489
PH
2027PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2028 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2029
c816d124
PH
2030PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2031
a9ccd69a
PH
2032PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2033 operations in malware.c.
2034
75fa1910
PH
2035PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2036 signatures.
2037
a7d7aa58
PH
2038PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2039 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2040 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2041 all.
2042
42119b09
PH
2043PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2044 statements to "add_header".
2045
41609df5
PH
2046PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2047 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2048
a5bd321b
PH
2049PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2050 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2051 latter.
2052
e85a7ad5 2053PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2054 so that it is now:
2055
e85a7ad5
PH
2056 ${if or { \
2057 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2058 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2059 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2060 }{no}{yes}}
2061
e85a7ad5
PH
2062 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2063 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2064
d8fe1c03
PH
2065PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2066 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2067
16282d2b
PH
2068PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2069 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2070 any possible encoding problems.
2071
35d40a98
PH
2072PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2073 but not after initializing Perl.
2074
034d99ab
PH
2075PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2076 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2077 apparently, which is not desirable.
2078
6ec97b1b
PH
2079PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2080 queries.
2081
e22ca4ac
JJ
2082JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2083 --not options
2084
2085JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2086
33d73e3b
PH
2087PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2088 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2089 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2090 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2091
9ecb03f3
PH
2092PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2093 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2094 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2095
084efe8d
PH
2096PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2097 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2098 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2099 0.12.
2100
366fc9f0
PH
2101PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2102 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2103 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2104 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2105 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2106
c59f5781 2107
c887c79e
TF
2108Exim version 4.62
2109-----------------
2110
2111TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2112 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2113
1cce3af8
PH
2114PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2115 patch).
2116
afb3eaaf
PH
2117PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2118 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2119 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2120 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2121 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2122 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2123 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2124 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2125 451 error is used.
2126
e173618b
PH
2127PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2128
dd16e114
PH
2129PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2130 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2131 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2132
f7fd3850
PH
2133PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2134 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2135 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2136 odd errors.
2137
d87df92c
PH
2138PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2139 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2140
7e9f683d
PH
2141PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2142 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2143 option (which defaults to 0600).
2144
bfad5236
PH
2145PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2146
01c490df
PH
2147PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2148 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2149 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2150 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2151 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2152 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2153 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2154
d6629cdc
PH
2155PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2156
1cce3af8 2157
214e2000
PH
2158Exim version 4.61
2159-----------------
2160
2161PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2162 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2163 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2164 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2165 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2166 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2167 addresses as local.
2168
f9daeae0
PH
2169PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2170 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2171
7e66e54d
PH
2172PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2173
c8ea1597
PH
2174PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2175 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2176 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2177 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2178 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2179 grumble.
2180
911f6fde
PH
2181PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2182 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2183
47ca6d6c
PH
2184PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2185 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2186 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2187 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2188 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2189
ed0e9820
PH
2190PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2191 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2192 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2193 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2194
eff37e47
PH
2195PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2196 be the same on different OS.
2197
1921d2ea
PH
2198PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2199 testing.
2200
b3f69ca8
JJ
2201JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2202 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2203
2204JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2205 in 4.61-PH/06
2206
424a1c63
PH
2207PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2208 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2209 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2210 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2211 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2212 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2213 bounce message.
2214
7a100415
PH
2215PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2216 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2217 when Exim was called.
2218
19b9dc85
PH
2219PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2220 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2221
309bd837
PH
2222PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2223 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2224 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2225 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2226
59e82a2a
PH
2227PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2228 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2229 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2230 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2231 changes:
2232
2233 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2234 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2235 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2236
2237 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2238 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2239 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2240
9edc04ce
PH
2241PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2242 feature).
2243
1349e1e5
PH
2244PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2245 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2246 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2247 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2248 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2249 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2250 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2251 values from the SRV records were lost.
2252
ea49d0e1
PH
2253PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2254 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2255 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2256
064a94c9
PH
2257PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2258 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2259 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2260
727071f8
PH
2261PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2262 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2263 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2264 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2265 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2266 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2267 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2268 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2269 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2270 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2271
f78eb7c6
PH
2272PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2273 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2274 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2275
21c28500
PH
2276PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2277 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2278
2279PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2280 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2281 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2282 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2283 is given.
2284
1688f43b
PH
2285PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2286 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2287 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2288
2289PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2290 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2291 PH/23 above applies.
2292
9675b384
PH
2293PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2294 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2295 (for which there is an explicit test).
2296
6a3f1455
PH
2297PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2298
dac79d3e
PH
2299PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2300 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2301 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2302 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2303 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2304
5977a0b3
PH
2305PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2306 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2307 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2308 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2309
c91535f3
PH
2310PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2311 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2312 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2313
0d46a8c8
PH
2314PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2315
278c6e6c
PH
2316PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2317
2cbb4081
PH
2318PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2319 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2320 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2321
3eef829e
PH
2322PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2323 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2324 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2325 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2326 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2327
1ab95fa6
PH
2328PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2329 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2330 the message gets confusing).
2331
230205fc
PH
2332PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2333 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2334 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2335 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2336
75e0e026
PH
2337PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2338 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2339 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2340 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2341 same order.
2342
2343PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2344 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2345 the different processes.
2346
145396a6
PH
2347PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2348
3cd34f13
PH
2349PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2350
11121d3d
JJ
2351JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2352 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2353
2354JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2355 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2356
2357JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2358 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2359 messages matching specified criteria.
2360
8def5aaf
PH
2361PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2362
929ba01c
PH
2363PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2364 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2365
2632889e
PH
2366PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2367 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2368 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2369 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2370 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2371 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2372 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2373 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2374 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2375 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2376
944a9c55
PH
2377PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2378 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2379 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2380
4a23603b
PH
2381PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2382
4730f942
PH
2383PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2384 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2385 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2386 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2387 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2388 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2389 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2390 the variable.
2391
30dba1e6
PH
2392PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2393 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2394
382afc6b
PH
2395PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2396
a86229cf
PH
2397PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2398
50c99ba6
PH
2399PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2400
d35e429d
PH
2401PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2402 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2403 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2404 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2405 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2406 size of the count of files.
2407
f90d018c
PH
2408PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2409
75def545
PH
2410PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2411 used in LMTP mode:
2412
2413 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2414 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2415 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2416 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2417
2418 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2419 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2420 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2421
2422PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2423 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2424 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2425 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2426 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2427
c46782ef
PH
2428PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2429 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2430
71fafd95
PH
2431PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2432 will now be deprecated.
2433
2c5db4fd
PH
2434PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2435
9cf6b11a
JJ
2436JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2437 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2438 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2439
2440JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2441 with very large, slow to parse queues
2442
2443JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2444
2445JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2446
898d150f
PH
2447PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2448 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2449 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2450 SMTP output lines.
2451
46218253
PH
2452PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2453 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2454 Sieve code now uses this.
2455
e97957bc
PH
2456PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2457 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2458
81e509d7
PH
2459PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2460 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2461
3d240ff7
PH
2462PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2463
b37c4101
PH
2464PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2465 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2466 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2467 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2468 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2469
79378e0f
PH
2470PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2471 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2472 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2473 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2474
e49c7bb4
PH
2475PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2476
d114ec46
PH
2477PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2478
f3d7df6c
PH
2479PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2480 is preferred over IPv4.
2481
715ab376
PH
2482PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2483 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2484 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2485 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2486 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2487 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2488 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2489
6b31b150
PH
2490PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2491 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2492 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2493
2494PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2495
d515a917
PH
2496PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2497 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2498 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2499 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2500 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2501 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2502 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2503 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2504 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2505 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2506 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2507
9b8fadde
PH
2508PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2509 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2510 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2511
214e2000 2512
5de37277
PH
2513Exim version 4.60
2514-----------------
2515
cc38ddbf
PH
2516PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2517
2518 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2519 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2520
2521 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2522 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2523 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2524
72fdd6ae
PH
2525PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2526
2527 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2528 not a single digit.
2529
2530 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2531 string.
2532
2533 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2534 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2535 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2536 silly things.
2537
2538 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2539 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2540
2541 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2542 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2543
cb741023
PH
2544PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2545 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2546 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2547
f174f16e
PH
2548PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2549 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2550
c25242d7
PH
2551PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2552 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2553
2554 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2555
2556 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2557 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2558 this:
2559
2560 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2561
82c19f95
PH
2562PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2563 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2564 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2565 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2566 identical. For example:
2567
2568 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2569
2570 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2571 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2572 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2573
d7ffbc12
PH
2574PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2575 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2576 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2577 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2578
9f526266
PH
2579PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2580 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2581 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2582 message.
2583
87fcc8b9
PH
2584PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2585
2586 o fixes some comments
2587 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2588 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2589 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2590 and documents the missing references header update
2591
2592 and most important:
2593
2594 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2595 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2596 result)
2597
456682f5
PH
2598PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2599 Electronic Mail") by including:
2600
2601 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2602
2603 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2604 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2605 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2606 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2607 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2608
2609 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2610
2611 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2612
2613 The auto-replied keyword:
2614
2615 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2616 message by an automatic process,
2617
2618 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2619
2620 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2621 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2622
2623 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2624 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2625 other messages.
2626
3e46c1aa
PH
2627PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2628 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2629
49826d12
PH
2630PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2631
eba0c039
PH
2632PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2633 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2634 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2635
a0d6ba8a
PH
2636PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2637 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2638 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2639
f0917727
PH
2640PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2641 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2642 and treats the condition as false.
2643
096fee00
PH
2644PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2645
024bd3c2
PH
2646PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2647 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2648 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2649 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2650 not changing the active code.
2651
2652 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2653 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2654
2655 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2656 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2657
df199fec
PH
2658PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2659 (Bugzilla #53).
2660
d27f1df3
PH
2661PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2662 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2663 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2664 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2665 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2666 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2667 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2668 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2669 the text comparison.
2670
96776534
PH
2671PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2672 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2673 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2674 The same fix has been applied.
2675
5de37277 2676
9a799bc0
PH
2677Exim version 4.54
2678-----------------
2679
2680PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2681 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2682 It now does.
2683
99a4b039
PH
2684PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2685 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2686
2687PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2688
4b233853
PH
2689PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2690 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2691 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2692 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2693 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2694
8857ccfd
PH
2695TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2696 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2697 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2698 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2699 or /domain=).
2700
433a2980
PH
2701PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2702 testing suite.
2703
3e46c1aa 2704
9a799bc0 2705
e3a311ba
TK
2706Exim version 4.53
2707-----------------
2708
2709TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2710 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2711
13b685f9
PH
2712PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2713
395ff96d
PH
2714PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2715
5b68f6e4
PH
2716PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2717 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2718 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2719
1ab52c69
PH
2720PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2721 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2722 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2723
b07e6aa3
PH
2724PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2725 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2726 operating systems.
2727
254e032f
PH
2728PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2729 ${stat: expansion item.
2730
3af76a81
PH
2731PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2732 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2733
2548ba04
PH
2734PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2735 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2736 file for comments.
2737
b6c6011d
PH
2738PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2739
cf39cf57
PH
2740PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2741 setting.
2742
f1513293
PH
2743PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2744 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2745
727549a4
PH
2746TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2747
af46795e
PH
2748PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2749 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2750 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2751 the end of the subprocess.
2752
d7b47fd0
PH
2753PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2754 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2755 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2756 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2757 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2758
ee744174
JJ
2759JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2760
b582ab87
PH
2761TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2762
41a13e0a
PH
2763PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2764 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2765
f625cc5a
PH
2766PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2767
2768PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2769
21f7af35
PH
2770PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2771 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2772 HP-UX compiler.
2773
31480e42
PH
2774PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2775
2d280592
PH
2776PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2777 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2778 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2779
7cd1141b
PH
2780PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2781 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2782
2783PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2784 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2785
750af86e
PH
2786PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2787 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2788
2789 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2790 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2791
2792 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2793 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2794 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2795 contributed by a Radius user.
2796
2797PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2798 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2799
4304270b
TK
2800TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2801 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2802
750af86e
PH
2803PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2804 available.
2805
64ffc24f
PH
2806PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2807 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2808 received.
2809
5dd9625b
PH
2810PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2811 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2812 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2813 header lines when this was not necessary.
2814
5591031b
PH
2815PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2816
ba18e66a
PH
2817PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2818 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2819 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2820 exists".
2821
9cec981f
PH
2822PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2823 -bV or -d is used.
2824
aa2b5c79
PH
2825PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2826 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2827 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2828 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2829
48a53b7f
PH
2830PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2831
1c59d63b
PH
2832PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2833
671012da
TK
2834TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2835
1509d3a8
PH
2836PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2837
2838PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2839 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2840 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2841 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2842 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2843 settings.
2844
2845PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2846
2fe1a124
PH
2847PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2848 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2849 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2850 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2851 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2852 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2853 which is clearly wrong.
2854
8800895a
PH
2855PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2856
ccfdb010
PH
2857PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2858 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2859 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2860 subsequently added.
2861
1130bfb0
PH
2862PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2863 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2864
ebcb507f
PH
2865PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2866
c35e155c
PH
2867PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2868 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2869
95d1f782
PH
2870PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2871 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2872
fd6de02e
PH
2873PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2874 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2875
58de37c5
PH
2876PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2877 recipients, not senders.
2878
261cf466
TF
2879TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2880 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2881
3ee512ff
PH
2882PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2883
e08c430f
PH
2884PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2885
bef5a11f
PH
2886PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2887 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2888 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2889 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2890
7546de58
TF
2891TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2892
e5d5a95f
TF
2893TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2894 clock is set back in time.
2895
2e88a017
TF
2896TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2897 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2898
a5f65aa4
TF
2899TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2900 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2901
e7726cbf
PH
2902PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2903 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2904 (see PH/47 above).
2905
a7fdad5b
TF
2906TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2907 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2908 header rewrites.
2909
6af56900
PH
2910PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2911 type ("H").
2912
0925ede6
PH
2913PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2914
66afa403
TF
2915TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2916 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2917 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2918
0154e85a
TF
2919TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2920 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2921 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2922 helo verification defer as a failure.
2923
16f12c76
PH
2924PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2925 actual error message.
2926
bbe902f0 2927
e5a9dba6
PH
2928Exim version 4.52
2929-----------------
2930
2931TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2932
22c3b60b
PH
2933PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2934 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2935 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2936 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2937
06a9b4b5
PH
2938TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2939
c1ac6996
PH
2940PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2941 can still be requested.
2942
9c7a242c
PH
2943PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2944 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2945 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2946 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2947
87ba3f5f
PH
2948TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2949 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2950 circumstances, but probably never did.
2951
2952PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2953 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2954 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2955 in the header line.
2956
29aba418
TF
2957TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2958
fe0dab11
TF
2959TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2960 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2961
11d337a4
TK
2962TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2963
2964TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2965
415c8f3b
PH
2966PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2967 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2968 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2969 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2970 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2971 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2972
958541e9
PH
2973PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2974 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2975 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2976 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2977 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2978 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2979
c206415f
TK
2980TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2981 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2982
2a4be8f9
PH
2983PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2984 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2985
1cba11c5
SC
2986SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2987 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2988
2989SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2990
2991SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2992
2993SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2994
2995SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2996
2997SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2998
2999SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3000
1005d00e
TK
3001TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3002
3003TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3004 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3005 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3006
3007TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3008 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3009 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3010 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3011
9b4768fa
PH
3012PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3013 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3014 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3015
3016PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3017 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3018 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3019 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3020
0d7eb84a
PH
3021PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3022 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3023 to be made).
3024
3025PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3026 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3027 should work with maildirs and everything.
3028
40727bee
TK
3029TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3030 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3031
554d2369
TF
3032TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3033 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3034
1f922db1
PH
3035PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3036 function for BDB 4.3.
3037
ef213c3b
PH
3038PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3039
8ac170f3
PH
3040PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3041 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3042 involved.
3043
b1c749bb
PH
3044PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3045 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3046 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3047 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3048 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3049 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3050
4aac9b49
PH
3051PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3052 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3053 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3054 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3055 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3056 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3057 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3058 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3059
294520c8
TK
3060TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3061 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3062 details.
3063
5bd022fe
PH
3064PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3065 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3066
90e9ce59
PH
3067PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3068 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3069 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3070 test. It is now used for both.
3071
5ea81592
PH
3072PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3073 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3074 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3075 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3076 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3077 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3078
c6c2dc1d
PH
3079PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3080 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3081 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3082 string_vformat().
3083
fffffe4c
PH
3084PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3085 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3086 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3087
9a26b6b2
PH
3088PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3089 experimental DomainKeys support:
3090
3091 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3092 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3093 the control was given.
3094
3095 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3096
4aee0225
PH
3097PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3098
32d668a5
PH
3099PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3100
8187c3f3
PH
3101PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3102 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3103 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3104 db.h files).
3105
ff790e47 3106PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3107 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3108 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3109 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3110 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3111 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3112 course.
ff790e47 3113
5417f6d1
PH
3114PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3115 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3116 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3117 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3118 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3119 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3120
59cf8544
PH
3121PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3122 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3123 do -d+all out of habit.
3124
e7ad8a65
PH
3125PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3126 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3127 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3128
ade42478
PH
3129PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3130 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3131 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3132 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3133 record types that Exim uses.
3134
182ad5cf
PH
3135PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3136 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3137 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3138 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3139 non-existent file that was broken.
3140
b0d9fc80
TK
3141TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3142 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3143
3144TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3145 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3146 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3147
3148TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3149
47c7a64a
PH
3150PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3151 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3152 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3153 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3154 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3155 same time.
3156
a388bce4
SC
3157SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3158 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3159 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3160 at a slight CPU cost.
3161
3162SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3163 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3164
3165SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3166 by Marc Sherman.
3167
0793e4ed
SC
3168SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3169
c58b88df
PH
3170PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3171 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3172
e7ad8a65 3173
7982096b
PH
3174Exim version 4.51
3175-----------------
3176
1a46a8c5
PH
3177TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3178 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3179
2f079f46 3180TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3181
3182TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3183
3184PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3185 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3186
3187PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3188 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3189 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3190 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3191 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3192 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3193 file.
3194
3195PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3196 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3197 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3198 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3199 these two options.
3200
3201PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3202 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3203 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3204 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3205 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3206 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3207 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3208 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3209
3210PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3211 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3212
3213PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3214 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3215 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3216 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3217 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3218 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3219
3220PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3221 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3222 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3223 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3224
3225PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3226 Finch).
3227
3228PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3229 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3230
49c2d5ea
PH
3231PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3232 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3233 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3234 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3235 message.
49c2d5ea 3236
bf759a8b
PH
3237PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3238
83364d30
PH
3239PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3240 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3241
7999bbd7
PH
3242PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3243 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3244 to what was transported.)
3245
7dbf77c9
PH
3246TF/01 Added $received_time.
3247
74e0617f
PH
3248PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3249 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3250 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3251 spamd_address settings.
3252
2f079f46
PH
3253PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3254 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3255 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3256 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3257 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3258
8c841523
PH
3259PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3260
7766a4f0
PH
3261PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3262 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3263 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3264 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3265 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3266
8b417f2c
PH
3267PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3268 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3269
901f42cb
PH
3270PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3271 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3272 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3273 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3274 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3275 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3276 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3277 for failure.
3278
f9b9210e
PH
3279PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3280 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3281 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3282 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3283 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3284 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3285 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3286 "input=".
3287
54cdb463
PH
3288PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3289
cf00dad6
PH
3290PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3291 driver and ACL definitions.
3292
acb1b346
PH
3293PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3294 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3295
c5ddb310
PH
3296PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3297 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3298 understands it better than I do:
3299
3300 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3301 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3302
3303 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3304 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3305 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3306 => three warnings about OTP not working
3307 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3308
3309 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3310 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3311 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3312 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3313 for each call.)
3314 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3315 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3316
3317 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3318 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3319 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3320
31619da6
PH
3321PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3322 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3323 specified.
3324
bebaf0fc
PH
3325PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3326 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3327 "Linux".
3328
475fe28a
PH
3329PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3330 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3331 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3332
3333 warn !verify = sender
3334 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3335
3336 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3337 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3338
7e8bec7a
PH
3339PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3340
3341 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3342 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3343
3344 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3345 nomenclature these days.)
3346
e4a89c47
PH
3347PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3348 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3349
5ca2a9a1
PH
3350PH/30 In these circumstances:
3351 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3352 . First host does not offer TLS;
3353 . First host accepts first address;
3354 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3355 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3356 . Second host accepts second address.
3357 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3358 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3359 address.
7e8bec7a 3360
c688b954
PH
3361PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3362 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3363 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3364 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3365 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3366
fed77020
PH
3367PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3368 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3369
7fe1560f
PH
3370PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3371 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3372
ebb6e6d5
PH
3373PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3374 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3375 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3376
9c4e8f60
PH
3377PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3378 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3379 overlooked.
3380
3381PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3382
d7174846
PH
3383PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3384 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3385 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3386 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3387 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3388 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3389 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3390
3391 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3392 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3393 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3394 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3395 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3396
3397 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3398 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3399 routed further.
3400
cfe75fc3
PH
3401PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3402 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3403 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3404 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3405 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3406 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3407
be22d70e
PH
3408PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3409
0612b098
PH
3410PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3411 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3412 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3413 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3414 printable escape sequences.
3415
2e0c1448
PH
3416PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3417 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3418 body only.
3419
447d236c
PH
3420PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3421 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3422 are as follows:
3423
3424 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3425 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3426 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3427 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3428 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3429
3430 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3431 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3432 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3433
d20976dc
PH
3434PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3435
f656d135
PH
3436PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3437 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3438 play with."
3439
2e2a30b4
PH
3440PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3441 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3442 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3443 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3444 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3445 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3446 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3447 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3448 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3449 the log output.
3450
9176e9f0
PH
3451PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3452 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3453 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3454 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3455 "make".
3456
7982096b 3457
bbe902f0
PH
3458A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3459----------------------------------------
3460
3461Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3462changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3463needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3464in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3465that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3466release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3467from 4.43.
3468
3469I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
34704.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3471those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3472historical information.
3473
3474
f7b63901 3475Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3476-----------------
3477
5fe762f6
PH
3478 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3479
139059f6 3480 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3481 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3482
7086e875
PH
3483 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3484 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3485 place.
3486
35af9f61
PH
3487 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3488 filter fails to execute.
3489
b668c215
PH
3490 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3491 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3492 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3493 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3494 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3495
a494b1e1
PH
3496 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3497
3498 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3499 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3500 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3501 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3502
c5fcb476
PH
3503 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3504 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3505 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3506 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3507 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3508
69358f02
PH
3509 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3510
5be20824
PH
351110. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3512
eb2c0248
PH
351311. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3514 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3515 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3516 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3517
2a3eea10
PH
351812. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3519 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3520 sender verification.
3521
352213. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3523 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3524
23c7ff99
PH
352514. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3526
4deaf07d
PH
352715. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3528 connection timeout.
3529
926e1192
PH
353016. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3531 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3532
650edc6f
PH
353317. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3534 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3535
2c7db3f5
PH
353618. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3537 information about exactly what failed.
3538
3d235903
PH
353919. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3540
7c7ad977
PH
354120. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3542 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3543 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3544
981756db
PH
354521. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3546 It is now set to "smtps".
3547
d4eb88df
PH
354822. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3549 ignore_target_hosts.
3550
355123. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3552 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3553 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3554 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3555 "[x.x.x.x]".
3556
7d468ab8
PH
355724. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3558 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3559 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3560
356125. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3562 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3563 wake it up if nothing else does.
3564
62c0818f
PH
356526. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3566 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3567 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3568 end up negative.
3569
26034054
PH
357027. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3571 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3572
af66f652
PH
357328. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3574
90af77f4
PH
357529. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3576 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3577 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3578 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3579 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3580 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3581 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3582 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3583
d8ef3577
PH
358430. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3585 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3586 than one IP address.
3587
5cb8cbc6
PH
358831. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3589 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3590 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3591 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3592
14702f5b
PH
359332. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3594 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3595 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3596 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3597 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3598 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3599
063b1e99
PH
360033. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3601 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3602 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3603 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3604
652e1b65
PH
360534. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3606 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3607 respected.
3608
6f0c9a4f
PH
360935. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3610 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3611 $sender_host_address.
3612
33397d19
PH
361336. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3614 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3615 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3616 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3617 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3618 very small.
3619
7bb56e1f
PH
362037. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3621
3622 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3623 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3624
ea3bc19b
PH
3625 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3626 just the host names, not the priorities.
3627
3628 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3629 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3630 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3631
ea3bc19b 3632 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3633 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3634
0bcb2a0e
PH
363538. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3636 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3637 domain.
3638
2ac0e484
PH
363939. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3640
4e1fde53
PH
364140. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3642 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3643
de365ded
PH
364441. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3645 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3646 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3647
f05da2e8
PH
364842. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3649
d6453af2
PH
365043. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3651
f7b63901
PH
365244. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3653
365445. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3655 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3656 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3657 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3658 because the tests only now provoked it.
3659
a444213a
PH
366046. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3661 (this can affect the format of dates).
3662
0ec020ea
PH
366347. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3664 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3665 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3666 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3667
b1206957
PH
366848. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3669
367049. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3671 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3672 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3673 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3674
26dd5a95
PH
367550. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3676 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3677 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3678
343b2385
PH
367951. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3680 autoreply.
3681
1c5466b9
PH
368252. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3683 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3684 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3685 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3686 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3687 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3688 is going on).
3689
55ee9ee3
PH
369053. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3691 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3692 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3693 the line.
3694
d38f8232
PH
369554. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3696 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3697 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3698
3699 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3700 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3701 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3702 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3703 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3704 so I produce this patch..."
3705
3295e65b
PH
3706 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3707 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3708 is not defined.
3709
7102e136
PH
371055. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3711 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3712 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3713 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3714 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3715
3ca0ba97
PH
371656. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3717
c2bcbe20
PH
371857. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3719 long debug lines gets shown.
3720
18ce445d
PH
372158. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3722 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3723
1f5b4c3d
PH
372459. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3725
3726 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3727 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3728 of $primary_hostname.
3729
b975ba52
PH
373060. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3731 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3732 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3733 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3734 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3735 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3736 by change 4.50/55 above.
3737
3738 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3739 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3740 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3741 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3742 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3743 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3744 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3745
374661. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3747 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3748 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3749 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3750
17ffcae7
PH
375162. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3752 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3753
d95f9fdb
PH
375463. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3755 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3756 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3757 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3758 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3759
86b8287f
PH
376064. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3761 This has been fixed.
3762
60dc5e56
PH
376365. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3764 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3765 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3766 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3767 the caching.)
3768
533244af
PH
376966. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3770
a5a28604
PH
377167. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3772 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3773 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3774 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3775
7e634d24
PH
377668. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3777 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3778
3e11c26b
PH
377969. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3780 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3781 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3782
6729cf78
PH
378370. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3784 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3785 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3786 message there.
3787
00f00ca5
PH
378871. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3789 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3790 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3791
c9bdd01c
PH
379272. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3793 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3794 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3795 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3796
d43194df
PH
379773. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3798 during host lookups.
3799
fe5b5d0b
PH
380074. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3801 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3802
3803 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3804
76a2d7ba
PH
380575. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3806 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3807 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3808 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3809 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3810 background.
3811
381276. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3813 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3814
04f7d5b9
PH
381577. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3816 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3817 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3818
bc60667e
PH
381978. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3820
bb6e88ff
PH
382179. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3822 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3823 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3824 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3825 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3826 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3827 process earlier.
3828
1e70f85b
PH
382980. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3830 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3831 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3832 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3833 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3834
383581. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3836 tables).
3837
4e01f9d6
PH
383882. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3839
1ee1cef2
PH
384083. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3841 "vacation" handling.
3842
6e2b4ccc
PH
384384. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3844 OS variants using glibc.
3845
8e669ac1
PH
384685. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3847
495ae4b0 3848
bbe902f0
PH
3849----------------------------------------------------
3850See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3851----------------------------------------------------
3852
3853
3854Exim version 4.44
3855-----------------
3856
3857 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3858 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3859 transport
3860
3861 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3862 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3863 place.
3864
3865 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3866 filter fails to execute.
3867
3868 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3869 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3870 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3871 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3872 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3873
3874 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3875 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3876 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3877 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3878
3879 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3880 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3881 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3882 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3883 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3884
3885 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3886
3887 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3888 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3889 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3890 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3891
3892 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3893 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3894 sender verification.
3895
389610. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3897 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3898
389911. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3900 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3901
390212. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3903 ignore_target_hosts.
3904
390513. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3906 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3907 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3908 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3909 "[x.x.x.x]".
3910
391114. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3912 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3913 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3914
391515. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3916 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3917 wake it up if nothing else does.
3918
391916. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3920 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3921 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3922 end up negative.
3923
392417. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3925 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3926
ea3a6f44 392718. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3928
392919. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3930 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3931 empty pattern.
3932
393320. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3934 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3935 one IP address.
3936
ea3a6f44
NM
393721. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3938 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3939 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3940 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3941 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3942 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3943
ea3a6f44
NM
394422. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3945 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3946 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3947
394823. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3949 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3950 $sender_host_address.
3951
395224. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3953
ea3a6f44
NM
395425. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3955 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3956 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3957
395826. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3959 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3960
ea3a6f44
NM
396127. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3962 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3963
ea3a6f44
NM
396428. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3965 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3966 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3967 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3968
396929. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3970 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3971 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3972
ea3a6f44
NM
397330. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3974 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3975 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3976 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3977
ea3a6f44
NM
397831. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3979 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3980 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3981
ea3a6f44
NM
398231. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3983 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3984
ea3a6f44
NM
398532. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3986 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3987 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3988 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3989 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3990 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3991 is going on).
bbe902f0 3992
ea3a6f44
NM
399333. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3994 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3995 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3996 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3997 CAN-2005-0021
3998
ea3a6f44
NM
399934. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4000 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4001 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4002 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4003 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4004 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4005 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4006
4007 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4008 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4009 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4010 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4011 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4012 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4013 CAN-2005-0021
4014
ea3a6f44
NM
401535. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4016 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4017 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4018 CAN-2005-0022
4019
ea3a6f44
NM
402036. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4021 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4022 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4023 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4024 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4025
ea3a6f44
NM
402637. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4027 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4028 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4029 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4030 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4031
ea3a6f44
NM
403238. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4033 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4034 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4035 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4036 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4037
4038
495ae4b0
PH
4039Exim version 4.43
4040-----------------
4041
4042 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4043 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4044 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4045 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4046 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4047 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4048 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4049
4050 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4051 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4052 the delivery.
4053
4054 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4055
4056 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4057
4058 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4059 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4060 to local_scan().
4061
4062 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4063 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4064 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4065 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4066 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4067
4068 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4069 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4070
4071 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4072
4073 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4074
407510. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4076 header_sender only.
4077
407811. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4079 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4080
408112. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4082 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4083 affecting debugging statements).
4084
408513. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4086
408714. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4088 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4089 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4090 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4091 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4092 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4093 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4094 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4095 after the received time, and all would be well.
4096
409715. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4098 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4099 condition in an expansion string.
4100
410116. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4102
410317. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4104 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4105 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4106 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4107 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4108 job under whatever limits there are.
4109
411018. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4111
411219. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4113 space).
4114
411520. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4116 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4117 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4118 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4119 return path is set.
4120
412121. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4122 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4123 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4124 binary data in such strings.
4125
412622. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4127
412823. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4129 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4130 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4131 failure, which is pointless.
4132
413324. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4134
413525. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4136
413726. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4138 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4139 Sender: header lines.
4140
414127. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4142 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4143 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4144
414528. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4146 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4147 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4148 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4149 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4150 happens.
4151
415229. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4153 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4154 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4155 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4156 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4157
415830. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4159 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4160 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4161 1024.
4162
416331. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4164 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4165
416632. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4167 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4168
416933. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4170
417132. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4172
417333. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4174
417534. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4176 syntax error.
4177
417835. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4179
418036. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4181
418237. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4183 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4184 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4185 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4186
418738. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4188 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4189
4190
4191Exim version 4.42
4192-----------------
4193
4194 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4195 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4196 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4197 it was not quoted.
4198 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4199 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4200 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4201 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4202 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4203 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4204
4205 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4206 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4207 verification failure".
4208
4209 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4210 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4211 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4212 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4213
4214 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4215 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4216 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4217 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4218 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4219 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4220 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4221 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4222 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4223 treated as a timeout.
4224
4225 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4226 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4227 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4228 not set for Exim filters).
4229
4230 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4231 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4232 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4233
4234 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4235
4236 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4237 try to make them clearer.
4238
4239 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4240 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4241
4242 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4243
4244 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4245
424610. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4247 only the Cygwin environment.
4248
424911. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4250 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4251 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4252 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4253 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4254
425512. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4256 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4257 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4258 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4259 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4260 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4261 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4262
426313. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4264 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4265
426614. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4267
4268 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4269 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4270 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4271
4272 To: susanne@some.where
4273
4274 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4275 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4276 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4277 of addresses in From: header lines).
4278
4279 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4280 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4281 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4282
4283 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4284 treated as non-personal.
4285
4286 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4287 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4288
428915. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4290
429116. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4292
429317. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4294 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4295 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4296
429718. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4298 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4299
430019. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4301 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4302 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4303 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4304 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4305 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4306
430720. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4308 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4309 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4310 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4311 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4312 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4313 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4314 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4315
4316 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4317
431821. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4319 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4320
432122. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4322 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4323 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4324
432523. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4326 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4327
432824. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4329 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4330 rather than long int.
4331
433225. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4333
433426. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4335
4336
4337Exim version 4.41
4338-----------------
4339
4340 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4341 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4342 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4343 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4344 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4345 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4346
4347
4348Exim version 4.40
4349-----------------
4350
4351 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4352 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4353
4354 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4355 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4356 socklen_t is defined.
4357
4358 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4359 always exist.
4360
4361 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4362 configured.
4363
4364 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4365 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4366 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4367 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4368 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4369
4370 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4371 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4372 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4373 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4374
4375 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4376 of flapping under certain conditions.
4377
4378 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4379 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4380 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4381
4382 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4383
438410. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4385
438611. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4387 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4388 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4389 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4390
439112. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4392 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4393 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4394 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4395 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4396 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4397 preserved with the message after it was received.
4398
439913. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4400 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4401 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4402 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4403 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4404 test suite worked just fine.
4405
440614. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4407 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4408 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4409
441015. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4411 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4412 string.
4413
441416. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4415 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4416 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4417 does not fully solve it.
4418
441917. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4420 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4421 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4422 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4423 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4424
442518. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4426 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4427 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4428
442919. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4430 string, for example:
4431
4432 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4433
4434 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4435 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4436 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4437 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4438 the routers could not see them.
4439
444020. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4441 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4442
444321. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4444 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4445 output).
4446
444722. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4448 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4449 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4450 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4451 that needed quoting.
4452
445323. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4454 was not being matched caselessly.
4455
445624. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4457 backslashes.
4458
445925. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4460 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4461 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4462 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4463 when use_sender is false.
4464
446526. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4466
446727. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4468
446928. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4470
447129. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4472 the configuration file.
4473
447430. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4475 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4476
447731. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4478
447932. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4480 bytes in the message body.
4481
448233. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4483 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4484 delivery.
4485
448634. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4487
448835. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4489
449036. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4491 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4492 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4493 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4494 another IP address.
4495
4496
4497Exim version 4.34
4498-----------------
4499
4500 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4501 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4502
4503 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4504 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4505 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4506 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4507 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4508
4509 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4510 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4511
4512 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4513 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4514 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4515
4516 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4517 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4518 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4519
4520 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4521 for routers.
4522
4523 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4524 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4525 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4526 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4527 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4528 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4529 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4530
4531
4532Exim version 4.33
4533-----------------
4534
4535 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4536 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4537 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4538 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4539 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4540 default (and expected) setting.
4541
4542 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4543 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4544 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4545 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4546
4547 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4548 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4549
4550 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4551 in domain lists.
4552
4553 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4554 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4555 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4556 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4557 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4558 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4559
4560 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4561 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4562 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4563
4564 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4565 part (NOT match_host).
4566
4567 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4568
4569 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4570 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4571 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4572 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4573 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4574 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4575 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4576 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4577 the same named file.
4578
457910. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4580 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4581 when Exim is built.
4582
458311. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4584 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4585 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4586 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4587 a host name.
4588
458912. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4590 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4591 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4592
459313. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4594
459514. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4596
459715. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4598
459916. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4600 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4601
460217. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4603 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4604 before starting the TLS session.
4605
460618. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4607
460819. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4609 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4610
461120. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4612 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4613 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4614 colon in the middle).
4615
4616
4617Exim version 4.32
4618-----------------
4619
4620 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4621 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4622 multiple configurations are in use.
4623
4624 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4625 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4626 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4627 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4628 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4629 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4630
4631 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4632 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4633
4634 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4635 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4636 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4637
4638 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4639 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4640 occurs.
4641
4642 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4643 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4644
4645 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4646
4647 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4648 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4649
4650 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4651
4652 -prval:sval
4653
4654 is equivalent to
4655
4656 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4657
4658 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4659 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4660 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4661 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4662 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4663
466410. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4665 Exim's behaviour:
4666
4667 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4668 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4669 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4670 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4671 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4672 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4673
4674 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4675 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4676 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4677 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4678 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4679 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4680 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4681 string.
4682
4683 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4684 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4685 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4686 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4687 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4688
468911. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4690
469112. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4692 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4693 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4694
469513. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4696
469714. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4698 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4699 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4700 information.
4701
470215. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4703 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4704
470516. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4706 Three changes have been made:
4707
4708 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4709 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4710 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4711 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4712 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4713
4714 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4715 been restored.
4716
4717 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4718 the modified behaviour.
4719
4720
4721Exim version 4.31
4722-----------------
4723
4724 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4725 Larry Rosenman.
4726
4727 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4728 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4729
4730 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4731 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4732 try to track down a specific problem.
4733
4734 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4735 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4736 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4737
4738 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4739 warning.
4740
4741 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4742 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4743 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4744 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4745 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4746 some earlier ones do not.
4747
4748 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4749
4750 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4751 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4752 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4753 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4754 address literals are enabled, of course).
4755
4756 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4757
475810. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4759 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4760 by a command such as
4761
4762 exim -f "" ...
4763
4764 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4765
476611. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4767
476812. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4769 remained set. It is now erased.
4770
477113. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4772 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4773
477414. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4775 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4776 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4777 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4778 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4779 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4780 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4781 appropriate error code.
4782
478315. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4784 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4785 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4786 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4787 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4788 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4789
479016. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4791 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4792 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4793
479417. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4795 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4796 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4797 terminate the header.
4798
479918. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4800 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4801 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4802
480319. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4804 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4805 (4.30/29). In particular:
4806
4807 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4808 imposed.
4809
4810 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4811 to write a maildirsize file.
4812
4813 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4814 the transport, the new value overrides.
4815
4816 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4817 count.
4818
481920. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4820 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4821 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4822 space or a tab.
4823
482421. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4825 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4826 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4827 the fallback hosts.
4828
482922. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4830 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4831 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4832
483323. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4834 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4835 using a union.
4836
483724. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4838 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4839 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4840
484125. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4842
484326. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4844
484527. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4846
484728. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4848 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4849 become corrupted.
4850
485129. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4852 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4853 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4854 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4855 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4856 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4857 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4858 too great.
4859
486030. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4861 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4862 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4863 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4864 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4865 incorrectly.
4866
486731. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4868 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4869 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4870 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4871 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4872 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4873 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4874 cached value only when the same options are set.
4875
487632. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4877
487833. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4879 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4880 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4881 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4882 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4883
488434: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4885 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4886 it is clearly obsolete.
4887
488835. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4889 transport.
4890
489136. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4892 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4893 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4894 times.
4895
489637. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4897 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4898 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4899 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4900 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4901
490238. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4903 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4904 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4905 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4906
490739. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4908
4909 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4910
4911 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4912 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4913 2^31.
4914
491540. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4916 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4917 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4918 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4919 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4920 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4921 $localpart_data.
4922
492341. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4924 with the -f command-line option.
4925
492642. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4927 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4928 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4929 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4930 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4931 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4932
493343. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4934 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4935 line.
4936
493744. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4938 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4939 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4940 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4941 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4942 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4943 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4944 buffer is too small.
4945
494645. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4947 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4948
494946. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4950 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4951 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4952 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4953 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4954 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4955 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4956 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4957 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4958
495947. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4960 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4961 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4962
496348. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4964 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4965 ACL").
4966
496749. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4968 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4969 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4970 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4971 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4972
497350. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4974 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4975 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4976 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4977 is set.
4978
497951. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4980
498152. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4982
498353. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4984 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4985
498654. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4987 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4988 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4989
499055. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4991 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4992 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4993 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4994 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4995
499656. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4997 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4998 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4999 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5000 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5001 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5002 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5003
500457. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5005 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5006 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5007 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5008 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5009 the test of how many are available.
5010
501158. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5012 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5013 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5014 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5015 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5016 new message is started.
5017
501859. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5019 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5020
502160. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5022 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5023
502461. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5025 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5026 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5027 is no long logged.
5028
502962. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5030 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5031 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5032 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5033 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5034 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5035 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5036
503763. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5038 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5039 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5040 interpreted as octal.
5041
504264. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5043 setting.
5044
504565. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5046 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5047 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5048 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5049 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5050 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5051
505266. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5053 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5054 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5055 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5056
5057 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5058 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5059 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5060 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5061
5062 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5063 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5064 is a bug fix.
5065
5066 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5067 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5068
506967. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5070
507168. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5072 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5073 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5074 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5075
507669. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5077 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5078 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5079 supplied", which is not helpful.
5080
508170. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5082 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5083 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5084
508571. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5086 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5087 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5088 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5089 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5090 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5091 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5092 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5093
509472. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5095 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5096 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5097 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5098 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5099
510073. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5101 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5102 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5103 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5104 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5105 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5106
510774. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5108 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5109 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5110
511175. Added write_rejectlog option.
5112
511376. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5114 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5115 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5116 variables.
5117
511877. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5119
512078. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5121 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5122 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5123 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5124 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5125 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5126 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5127 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5128
512979. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5130 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5131 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5132 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5133 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5134
513580. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5136 Haardt.
5137
513881. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5139 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5140 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5141 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5142 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5143 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5144 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5145 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5146 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5147
5148
5149Exim version 4.30
5150-----------------
5151
5152 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5153 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5154 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5155
5156 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5157 fixed.
5158
5159 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5160 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5161 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5162
5163 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5164 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5165 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5166 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5167 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5168 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5169
5170 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5171 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5172 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5173 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5174 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5175 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5176 the Exim test suite.
5177
5178 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5179 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5180 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5181 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5182
5183 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5184 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5185 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5186 specify it in this variable.
5187
5188 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5189 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5190 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5191 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5192
5193 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5194 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5195 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5196 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5197
5198 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5199 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5200 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5201 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5202 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5203
5204 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5205
520610. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5207 they are logged.
5208
520911. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5210 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5211 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5212 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5213 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5214
521512. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5216 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5217
521813. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5219 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5220 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5221 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5222 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5223
522414. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5225 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5226
522715. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5228 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5229 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5230
523116. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5232 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5233
523417. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5235 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5236
523718. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5238 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5239 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5240
524119. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5242 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5243
524420. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5245 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5246 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5247 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5248
524921. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5250
525122. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5252 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5253 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5254 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5255
525623. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5257
525824. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5259 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5260
526125. Added .include_if_exists.
5262
526326. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5264 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5265 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5266 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5267 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5268 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5269
527027. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5271
527228. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5273 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5274 this.
5275
527629. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5277
527830. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5279 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5280
5281 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5282 550 Sender verify failed
5283
5284 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5285 the final line of the response.
5286
528731. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5288 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5289 all other user lookups.
5290
529132. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5292 delivery time.
5293
529433. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5295 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5296 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5297 result into an int without checking.
5298
529934. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5300 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5301 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5302
530335. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5304 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5305 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5306 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5307
530836. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5309 correctly.
5310
531137. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5312 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5313
531438. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5315 to the empty sender.
5316
531739. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5318 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5319 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5320 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5321 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5322 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5323 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5324 panic log.
5325
532640. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5327 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5328 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5329 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5330 used.
5331
533241. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5333 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5334
533542. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5336 timestamps.
5337
533843. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5339 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5340
534144. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5342
534345. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5344 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5345 logs.
5346
534746. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5348 as soon as it is encountered.
5349
535047. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5351
535248. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5353 rewritten to "<>".
5354
535549. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5356 recognizes a tab character.
5357
535850. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5359 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5360 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5361 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5362
536351. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5364
536552. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5366 crash.
5367
536853. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5369
537054. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5371
537255. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5373 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5374 2822.
5375
537656. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5377 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5378 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5379 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5380 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5381
538257. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5383 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5384
538558. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5386 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5387 list (.included file names were always shown).
5388
538959. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5390 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5391 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5392 root at that time.
5393
539460. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5395 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5396
539761. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5398
539962. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5400
540163. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5402
540364. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5404 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5405 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5406 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5407 failures to open the logs.
5408
540965. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5410 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5411 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5412 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5413 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5414 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5415 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5416
5417
5418Exim version 4.24
5419-----------------
5420
5421 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5422 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5423 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5424 change 4.23/1.
5425
5426 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5427 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5428 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5429
5430 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5431 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5432 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5433
5434 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5435 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5436 causing some misleading effects.
5437
5438 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5439 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5440 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5441
5442 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5443 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5444 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5445 queue-runner function directly.
5446
5447
5448Exim version 4.23
5449-----------------
5450
5451 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5452 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5453
5454 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5455 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5456 was always written to the default place.
5457
5458 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5459 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5460 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5461
5462 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5463
5464 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5465
5466 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5467 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5468 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5469
5470 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5471 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5472 must start.
5473
5474 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5475 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5476 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5477
5478 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5479 command line option is disabled.
5480
5481 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5482 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5483
5484 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5485
5486 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5487
5488 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5489 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5490
549110. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5492
549311. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5494 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5495 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5496 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5497 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5498 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5499
550012. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5501 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5502 timeout.
5503
550413. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5505 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5506
550714. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5508 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5509
551015. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5511 received was valid base64.
5512
551316. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5514 name of the variable that was being set.
5515
551617. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5517
551818. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5519 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5520 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5521 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5522 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5523 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5524
552519. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5526
552720. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5528 nor realm was specified.
5529
553021. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5531 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5532 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5533 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5534
553522. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5536 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5537 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5538
553923. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5540 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5541 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5542
554324. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5544 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5545 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5546 some systems use these upper case variants.
5547
554825. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5549 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5550 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5551 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5552
555326. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5554
555527. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5556 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5557
555828. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5559 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5560 expansion variable.
5561
556229. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5563
556430. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5565 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5566 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5567 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5568
556931. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5570 using it.
5571
557232. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5573 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5574 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5575
557633. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5577 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5578
557934. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5580 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5581 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5582 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5583
558435. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5585 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5586 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5587
558836. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5589
559037. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5591 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5592 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5593 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5594 aborted.
5595
559638. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5597 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5598 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5599
560039. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5601
560240. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5603 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5604
560541. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5606 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5607
560842. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5609 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5610 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5611 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5612 when emails are that large.
5613
5614
5615
5616Exim version 4.22
5617-----------------
5618
5619 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5620 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5621
5622 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5623 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5624 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5625
5626 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5627 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5628 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5629
5630 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5631 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5632 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5633 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5634 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5635
5636 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5637 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5638 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5639 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5640 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5641 ever.
5642
5643 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5644 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5645 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5646 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5647 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5648 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5649 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5650 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5651 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5652 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5653 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5654 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5655 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5656 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5657
5658 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5659 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5660 parameterised it.
5661
5662 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5663 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5664 error should be diagnosed.
5665
5666 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5667 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5668 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5669 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5670 appeared instead of "NULL".
5671
567210. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5673 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5674 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5675 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5676 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5677 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5678 proceeds).
5679
5680 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5681 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5682 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5683
5684
5685Exim version 4.21
5686-----------------
5687
5688 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5689 or receiver verification errors.
5690
5691 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5692 name.
5693
5694 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5695 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5696 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5697 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5698
5699 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5700 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5701 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5702 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5703 shouldn't happen again.
5704
5705 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5706 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5707 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5708
5709 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5710 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5711
5712 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5713
5714 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5715 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5716
5717 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5718 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5719 RFC.
5720
572110. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5722 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5723 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5724
572511. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5726 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5727 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5728 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5729
573012. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5731 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5732 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5733 to define what should happen).
5734
573513. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5736 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5737 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5738
573914. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5740
574115. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5742
574316. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5744 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5745
574617. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5747 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5748 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5749 structure in all cases.
5750
5751 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5752 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5753 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5754 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5755
575618. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5757 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5758 domain name.
5759
576019. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5761 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5762
576320. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5764 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5765
576621. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5767 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5768 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5769
577022. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5771 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5772 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5773
577423. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5775 the book and for uniformity.
5776
577724. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5778
577925. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5780 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5781 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5782 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5783 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5784 non-existent command as the problem.
5785
578626. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5787 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5788 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5789
579027. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5791
579228. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5793 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5794 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5795
579629. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5797 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5798 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5799 timestamps using strftime().
5800
580130. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5802 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5803
580432. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5805 transport-time rewrites.
5806
580733. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5808 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5809 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5810 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5811
581234. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5813 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5814
581535. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5816 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5817 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5818 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5819 comma and a space.
5820
582136. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5822 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5823 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5824 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5825 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5826 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5827 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5828
582937. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5830 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5831 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5832 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5833 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5834
583538. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5836 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5837 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5838 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5839 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5840 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5841 remaining text gets split now.
5842
584339. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5844 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5845 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5846 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5847
584840. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5849 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5850 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5851 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5852 $return_path.
5853
585441. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5855 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5856 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5857 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5858 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5859 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5860 passed through if needed.
5861
586242. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5863 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5864 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5865 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5866 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5867 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5868
586943. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5870 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5871 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5872 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5873 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5874
587544. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5876 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5877 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5878 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5879 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5880
588145. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5882 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5883 noticed.
5884
588546. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5886 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5887 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5888 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5889 mayhem of various kinds.
5890
589147. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5892 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5893 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5894 the right test for positive values.
5895
589648. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5897 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5898 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5899 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5900 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5901 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5902 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5903 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5904 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5905 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5906 envelope.
5907
590849. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5909 module.
5910
591150. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5912 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5913 forbidding it.
5914
591551. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5916 the existing equality matching.
5917
591852. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5919 dealing with inode numbers.
5920
592153. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5922 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5923 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5924
592554. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5926 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5927 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5928 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5929 local_scan().
5930
593155. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5932 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5933 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5934 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5935 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5936 relay addresses has also been removed.
5937
593856. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5939
594057. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5941 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5942 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5943
594458. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5945 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5946 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5947 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5948 processing applies to CR:
5949
5950 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5951 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5952
5953 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5954 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5955 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5956 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5957
595859. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5959 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5960 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5961
596260. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5963 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5964 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5965 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5966 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5967 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5968 arisen.
5969
597061. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5971 program routers.
5972
597362. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5974 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5975 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5976 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5977 adds:
5978
5979 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5980
5981 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5982
5983 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5984
598563. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5986 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5987 not considered personal.
5988
598964. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5990
599165. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5992
599366. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5994
599567. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5996 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5997 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5998 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5999 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6000 header lines, and spool format errors.
6001
600268. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6003 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6004 for more flexibility.
6005
600669. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6007 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6008 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6009
601070. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6011 Sabourenkov.
6012
601371. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6014 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6015 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6016 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6017 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6018 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6019 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6020 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6021 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6022
602372. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6024 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6025 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6026 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6027 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6028 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6029 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6030
603173. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6032 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6033 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6034
603574. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6036 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6037 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6038 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6039 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6040 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6041 instead of killing the process with assert().
6042
604375. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6044 than Unicode encoding.
6045
604676. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6047 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6048 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6049 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6050
605177. Added process_log_path.
6052
605378. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6054 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6055
605679. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6057 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6058
605980. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6060 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6061 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6062
606381. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6064 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6065 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6066 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6067 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6068 were applied:
6069
6070 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6071 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6072 as invalid.
6073
607482. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6075 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6076 they will be used during message reception.
6077
6078
6079Exim version 4.20
6080-----------------
6081
6082The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6083
6084****