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3Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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6Exim version 4.75
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9NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependancy in version reporting
10 Bugzilla 1073
11
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12TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
13 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
14 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
15
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16TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
17 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
18
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19PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
20 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
21 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
22
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23PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
24 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
25
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26PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
27 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
28
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29NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
30 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
31
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32NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
33 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
34
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37Exim version 4.74
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39
40TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
41 consequences so log it to the panic log.
42
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43TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
44 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
45
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46TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
47
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48DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
49 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
50 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
51
52PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
53 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
54 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
55
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56PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
57 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
58 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
59 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
60
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61PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
62 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
63 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
64 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
65
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66PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
67 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
68 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
69 arbitrary files.
70
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71PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
72 (Wolfgang Breyha)
73
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74PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
75 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
76 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
77 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
78 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
79
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84PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
85 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
86 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
87
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88PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
89 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
90
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91JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
92
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93PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
94
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95PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
96
ec5a0394 97PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 98
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99PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
100
453a6645 101PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
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102 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
103 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
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104 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
105
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106PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
107 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
108 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
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109 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
110 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 111
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112PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
113
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114PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
115
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116PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
117
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118PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
119
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120PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
121
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122PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
123
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124PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
125
6a8de854 126PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
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127 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
128 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 129
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130JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
131
132JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
133 "exim" to be used
55c75993 134
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135PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
136 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
137
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138PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
139 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
140 Notification from John Horne.
141
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142PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
143 compatible.
144
145PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
146 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
147 it normally works.
148
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149DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
150 access.
151
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152DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
153 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
154 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
155
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156DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
157 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
158 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
159 configuration file.
160
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161DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
162 option (effectively making it always true).
163
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164DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
165 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
166
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167DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
168 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
169
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170PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
171 run-time user, instead of root.
172
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173PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overriden by the
174 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
175
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176DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
177 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
178 arguments.
3346ab01 179
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180DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
181 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
182 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
183
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184DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
185
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186NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
187
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189Exim version 4.72
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191
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192JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
193 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
194 typos
465e92cf 195
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196JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
197 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
198 (Finput)
edae0343 199
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200NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
201 Patch from Alain Williams
202
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203NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
204
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205NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
206 Patch from Andreas Metzler
207
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208NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
209 Patch from Kirill Miazine
210
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211NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
212
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213JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
214
a466095c 215NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 216 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 217
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218TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
219
220TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
221
222MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
223 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
224 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
225
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226NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
227 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 228
b26eacf1 229NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
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230 Patch by Simon Arlott
231
179c5980 232PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 233 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 234
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236Exim version 4.71
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7d9f747b 239TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 240
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241NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
242
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243NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
244
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245NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
246
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247NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
248
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250Exim version 4.70
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252
cdd3bb85 253TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 254 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
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256TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
257 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 258 Hirsch).
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259
260TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
261 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 262 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
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263
264TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
265 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
266
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267NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
268 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
269 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
270 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
271
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272NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
273 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 274 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 275
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276TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
277
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278TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
279
dae9d94e 280NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 281 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 282
7d9f747b 283NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 284
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285TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
286 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
287 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
288 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
289
65a7d8c3 290NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 291 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 292
23510047 293TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 294
7d9f747b 295NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 296
7d8eec3a 297NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 298 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 299
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300TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
301 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 302
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303TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
304 that they are available at delivery time.
305
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306TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
307
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308TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
309 incoming_port log selectors.
310
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311TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
312 setting expands to an empty string.
313
ce552449 314NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 315 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 316
e765a0f1 317NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 318 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 319
4f054c63 320NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 321 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 322
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323NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
324 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 325
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326NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
327 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 328
b52bc06e 329NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 330 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 331
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332NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
333
4c69d561 334NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 335 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 336
d5c39246 337NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 338 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 339
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340TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
341
8f3414a1 342NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 343 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 344
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345NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
346
347NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 348
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349NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
350 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 351
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352NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
353 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 354
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355NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
356 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 357
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358NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
359 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 360
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361NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
362 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 363
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364NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
365 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 366
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367NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
368 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 369
7d9f747b 370NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 371 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 372
7d9f747b 373NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 374
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375NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
376 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 377
7d9f747b 378NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 379
7d9f747b 380NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 381
7d9f747b 382NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 383
7d9f747b 384NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 385
17792b53 386NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 387 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 388
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389NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
390 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 391
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392NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mistmatches.
393 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 394
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395NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
396 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 397
7d9f747b 398NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 399
7d9f747b 400NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 401
7d9f747b 402NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 403
7d9f747b 404NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 405
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407Exim version 4.69
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409
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410TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
411 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
412 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
413
414 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
415 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
416 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
417 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
418 build errors in sieve.c.
419
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420NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
421 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
422 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
423
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424SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
425
7d9f747b 426NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 427
7d9f747b 428NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 429
7d9f747b 430NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
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432
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433Exim version 4.68
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435
436PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
437
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438PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
439 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
440 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
441 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
442 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
443 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
444 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
445 for iplsearch lookups.
446
447 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
448 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
449 previously such lookups could never work.
450
451 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
452 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
453 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
454
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455TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
456 version.
457
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458MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
459 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
460 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
461 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
462 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
463 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
464
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465TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
466 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
467
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468MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
469 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
470 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
471 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
472 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
473 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
474
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475PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
476 local_scan API.
477
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478PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
479
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480PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
481 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
482 encrypted.
483
484PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
485 by clients under certain conditions.
486
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487PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
488 "_responses" off the end of the name.
489
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490PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
491
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492PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
493 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
494
495PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
496
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497PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
498
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499PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
500
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501PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
502 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
503
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504PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
505
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506PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
507 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
508
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509PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
510
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511PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
512
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513PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
514 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
515 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
516 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 517
ddea74fa 518PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
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519 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
520 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
521
ddea74fa 522PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
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523 and InterBase are left for another time.)
524
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525PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
526
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527PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
528
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529PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
530
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531PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
532 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
533 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
534
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538
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539MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
540 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
541 Jan Srzednicki.
542
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543PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
544 issue a MAIL command.
545
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546PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
547
548 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
549
550 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
551 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
552 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
553 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
554 item. This has been fixed.
555
556PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
557 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
558
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559PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
560 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
561
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562PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
563 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
564 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
565
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566SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
567
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568PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
569 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
570 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
571 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
572 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
573
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574MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
575 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
576 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
577
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578PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
579 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
580 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
581 the server_setid option was incorrect.
582
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583PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
584
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585PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
586
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587PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
588 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
589 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
590 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
591 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
592
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593PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
594
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595PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
596 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
597 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
598 values).
599
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600PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
601
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602PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
603
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604PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
605
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606PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
607
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608PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
609
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610PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
611 no_callout_flush is set.
612
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613PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
614 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
615 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
616 fixed.
617
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618PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
619
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620PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
621 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
622 other ACL rejections are.
623
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624PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
625 with slight modification.
626
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627PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
628 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
629
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630PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
631 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
632 connection.
633
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634PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
635 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
636
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637SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
638
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639PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
640 expansion side effects.
641
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642PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
643 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
644 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
645 be the same.
646
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647MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
648 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
649 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
650
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651PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
652 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
653 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
654 were accidentally chopped off.
655
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656PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
657 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
658 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
659 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
660 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
661 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
662 pipelining has not been advertised.
663
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664PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
665
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666PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
667 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
668 This has been fixed.
669
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670PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
671 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
672 reported on Solaris.
673
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674PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
675 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
676 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
677 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
678 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
679 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
680 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
681
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682PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
683 cpus.
684
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685PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
686
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687PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
688
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689PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
690 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
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691 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
692 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
693 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
694 criteria to be more general.
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696PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
697 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
698 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
699 host_all_ignored option.
700
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701PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
702 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
703 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
704 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
705 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
706 is what is supposed to happen).
707
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708PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
709 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
710 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
711 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
712 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
713 uses the Exim user.
714
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715PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
716 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
717 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
718 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
719 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
720 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
721 users.
722
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723PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
724
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725SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
726 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
727 (Jez Hancock).
728 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
729 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
730
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731SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
732
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733PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
734
58eb016e 735PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
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736 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
737 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
738 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
739 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
740 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
741 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
742 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 743 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
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744 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
745 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 746
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747PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
748 advertised in response to EHLO.
749
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751Exim version 4.66
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753
754PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
755 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
756
757 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
758 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
759
760 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
761 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
762 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
763
764 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
765 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
766 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
767 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
768 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
769
770
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771Exim version 4.65
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773
774TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
775 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
776 versions. (#438)
777
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778MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
779 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
780 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
781
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782PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
783 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
784 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
785 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
786 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
787 rather than extend the field.
788
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793TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
794 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
795 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
796 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
797 these files.
798
799TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
800 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
801 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
802
803TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
804 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
805 hence the _LINUX specificness.
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806
807TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
808 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
809 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
810 in the field name.
811
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812PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
813 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
814 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
815 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
816 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
817 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
818 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
819 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
820 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
821 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
822 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
823
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824PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
825 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
826
827PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
828 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
829 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
830 ignores EPIPE as well.
831
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832PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
833 (quoted-printable decoding).
834
cc2ed8f7 835PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 836 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 837
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838PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
839
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840PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
841
842PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
843
38a0a95f 844PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 845 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 846
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847JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
848 in 4.64-PH/09.
849
850JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
851 miscellaneous code fixes
852
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853PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
854 rejections.
855
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856PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
857 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
858 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
859 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
860 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
861 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
862 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
863 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 864
14aa5a05 865PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 866 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
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867 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
868 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
869 function.
870 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
871 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
872 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
873 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
874 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
875 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
876 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
877 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
878 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
879
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880PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
881 decoding.
882
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883PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
884 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
885 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
886 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
887 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
888 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
889 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
890 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
891
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892PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
893 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
894 list.
895
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896PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
897 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
898 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
899 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
900 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
901 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
902 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
903 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
904 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
905 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
906 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
907 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
908 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
909
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910PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
911 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
912 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
913 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
914 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
915 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
916 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
917
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918PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
919 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
920 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
921 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
922 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
923 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
924 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
925 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
926 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
927 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
928
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929PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
930 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
931 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
932 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
933 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
934
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935PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
936 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
937 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
938 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
939 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
940 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
941 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
942
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943PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
944 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
945 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
946 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
947 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
948 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
949 been verified.
950
48da4259 951PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
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952 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
953 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
954 and authorization.)
955
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956PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
957 if any retry times were supplied.
958
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959PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
960 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
961 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
962
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963PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
964
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965PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
966
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967PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
968 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
969 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
970 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
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971 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
972 before) are ignored.
fd700877 973
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974PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
975 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
976
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977PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
978 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
979 committing the later change.]
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980
981PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
982 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
983 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
984 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
985 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
986 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
987 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
988 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
989 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
990
991 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
992 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
993 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
994 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
995 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
996 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
997 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
998 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
999 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1000
1001 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1002 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1003 hammering the server.
1004
c1114884
PH
1005PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1006 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1007
7a0743eb
PH
1008PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1009
0d85fa3f
PH
1010PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1011 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1012 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1013
1bf43b78
PH
1014PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1015 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1016 one case where this was not true.
1017
520de300
PH
1018PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1019 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1020 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1021 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1022 fails.
1023
48c7f9e2
PH
1024PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1025 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1026 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1027 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1028 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1029 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1030 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1031 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1032 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1033 smtp transport.
1034
99ea1c86
PH
1035PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1036 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1037 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1038 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1039
a2042e78
PH
1040PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1041 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1042
4fbcfc2e
PH
1043PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1044 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1045 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1046
aa41d2de
PH
1047PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1048
af561417
PH
1049PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1050
3cc66b45
PH
1051PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1052
194cc0e4
PH
1053PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1054 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1055 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1056 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1057
a401ddaa
PH
1058PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1059 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1060
4e88a19f
PH
1061PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1062 be meaningful with "accept".
1063
d7d7b289
SC
1064SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1065 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1066
1067SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1068 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1069 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1070
1071SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1072 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1073 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1074 there is data to show.
1075 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1076
1077SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1078 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1079 as well as the number of messages.
1080
1081SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1082 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1083 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1084
1085SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1086 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1087 have a flag are now skipped.
1088
1089SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1090 Added the -emptyok flag.
1091
1092SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1093 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1094
0ea2a468
JJ
1095JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1096 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1097 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1098
1099JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1100 match 4.64-PH/13
1101
1102JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1103 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1104
1105JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1106
1107JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1108 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1109
8a10f5a4
PH
1110PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1111
30e18802
PH
1112PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1113 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1114 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1115 contravention of the specifications.
1116
55728a4f
PH
1117PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1118 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1119 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1120
d7837193
PH
1121PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1122 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1123 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1124
87054a31
PH
1125PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1126
ea2c01d2
MH
1127MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1128 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1129 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1130 some point in the past.
1131
e4fa6968
PH
1132PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1133 transport during callout processing was broken.
1134
56f5d9bd
PH
1135PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1136 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1137
922e1c28
PH
1138PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1139 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1140
21eb6e72
PH
1141PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1142 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1143
a0540757
PH
1144PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1145
944e9e9c 1146
478be7b0
SC
1147Exim version 4.63
1148-----------------
1149
1150SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1151 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1152
1153SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1154 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1155 there is data to show.
1156 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1157
1158SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1159 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1160
2b965a65
TF
1161TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1162 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1163
45b91596
PH
1164TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1165 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1166
c59f5781
TF
1167TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1168 submissions from trusted users.
1169
90fc3069
TF
1170TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1171 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1172
6083aca0
TF
1173TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1174 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1175 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1176 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1177 there is now a framework to start from.
1178
765b530f
PH
1179PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1180 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1181 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1182
4e167a8c
PH
1183PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1184
4608d683
PH
1185PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1186
b8dc3e4a
PH
1187PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1188
5418e93b
PH
1189PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1190 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1191 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1192
b4a9bda2
PH
1193PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1194 libradius.
1195
45b91596
PH
1196PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1197 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1198 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1199
5547e2c5
PH
1200PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1201 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1202 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1203 its arguments.
1204
dbcef0ea
PH
1205PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1206 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1207 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1208 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1209 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1210
25257489
PH
1211PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1212 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1213
c816d124
PH
1214PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1215
a9ccd69a
PH
1216PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1217 operations in malware.c.
1218
75fa1910
PH
1219PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1220 signatures.
1221
a7d7aa58
PH
1222PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1223 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1224 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1225 all.
1226
42119b09
PH
1227PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1228 statements to "add_header".
1229
41609df5
PH
1230PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1231 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1232
a5bd321b
PH
1233PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1234 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1235 latter.
1236
e85a7ad5 1237PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1238 so that it is now:
1239
e85a7ad5
PH
1240 ${if or { \
1241 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1242 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1243 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1244 }{no}{yes}}
1245
e85a7ad5
PH
1246 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1247 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1248
d8fe1c03
PH
1249PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1250 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1251
16282d2b
PH
1252PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1253 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1254 any possible encoding problems.
1255
35d40a98
PH
1256PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1257 but not after initializing Perl.
1258
034d99ab
PH
1259PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1260 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1261 apparently, which is not desirable.
1262
6ec97b1b
PH
1263PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1264 queries.
1265
e22ca4ac
JJ
1266JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1267 --not options
1268
1269JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1270
33d73e3b
PH
1271PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1272 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1273 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1274 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1275
9ecb03f3
PH
1276PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1277 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1278 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1279
084efe8d
PH
1280PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1281 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1282 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1283 0.12.
1284
366fc9f0
PH
1285PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1286 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1287 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1288 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1289 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1290
c59f5781 1291
c887c79e
TF
1292Exim version 4.62
1293-----------------
1294
1295TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1296 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1297
1cce3af8
PH
1298PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1299 patch).
1300
afb3eaaf
PH
1301PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1302 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1303 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1304 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1305 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1306 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1307 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1308 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1309 451 error is used.
1310
e173618b
PH
1311PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1312
dd16e114
PH
1313PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1314 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1315 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1316
f7fd3850
PH
1317PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1318 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1319 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1320 odd errors.
1321
d87df92c
PH
1322PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1323 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1324
7e9f683d
PH
1325PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1326 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1327 option (which defaults to 0600).
1328
bfad5236
PH
1329PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1330
01c490df
PH
1331PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1332 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1333 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1334 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1335 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1336 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1337 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1338
d6629cdc
PH
1339PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1340
1cce3af8 1341
214e2000
PH
1342Exim version 4.61
1343-----------------
1344
1345PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1346 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1347 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1348 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1349 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1350 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1351 addresses as local.
1352
f9daeae0
PH
1353PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1354 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1355
7e66e54d
PH
1356PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1357
c8ea1597
PH
1358PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1359 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1360 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1361 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1362 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1363 grumble.
1364
911f6fde
PH
1365PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1366 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1367
47ca6d6c
PH
1368PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1369 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1370 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1371 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1372 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1373
ed0e9820
PH
1374PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1375 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1376 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1377 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1378
eff37e47
PH
1379PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1380 be the same on different OS.
1381
1921d2ea
PH
1382PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1383 testing.
1384
b3f69ca8
JJ
1385JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1386 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1387
1388JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1389 in 4.61-PH/06
1390
424a1c63
PH
1391PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1392 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1393 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1394 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1395 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1396 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1397 bounce message.
1398
7a100415
PH
1399PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1400 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1401 when Exim was called.
1402
19b9dc85
PH
1403PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1404 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1405
309bd837
PH
1406PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1407 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1408 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1409 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1410
59e82a2a
PH
1411PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1412 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1413 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1414 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1415 changes:
1416
1417 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1418 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1419 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1420
1421 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1422 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1423 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1424
9edc04ce
PH
1425PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1426 feature).
1427
1349e1e5
PH
1428PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1429 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1430 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1431 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1432 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1433 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1434 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1435 values from the SRV records were lost.
1436
ea49d0e1
PH
1437PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1438 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1439 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1440
064a94c9
PH
1441PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1442 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1443 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1444
727071f8
PH
1445PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1446 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1447 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1448 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1449 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1450 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1451 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1452 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1453 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 1454 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 1455
f78eb7c6
PH
1456PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1457 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1458 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1459
21c28500
PH
1460PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1461 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1462
1463PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1464 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1465 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1466 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1467 is given.
1468
1688f43b
PH
1469PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1470 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1471 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1472
1473PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1474 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1475 PH/23 above applies.
1476
9675b384
PH
1477PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1478 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1479 (for which there is an explicit test).
1480
6a3f1455
PH
1481PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1482
dac79d3e
PH
1483PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1484 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1485 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1486 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1487 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 1488
5977a0b3
PH
1489PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1490 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1491 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1492 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1493
c91535f3
PH
1494PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1495 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1496 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1497
0d46a8c8
PH
1498PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1499
278c6e6c
PH
1500PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1501
2cbb4081
PH
1502PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1503 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1504 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1505
3eef829e
PH
1506PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1507 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1508 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1509 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1510 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1511
1ab95fa6
PH
1512PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1513 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1514 the message gets confusing).
1515
230205fc
PH
1516PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1517 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
1518 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
1519 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
1520
75e0e026
PH
1521PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
1522 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
1523 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
1524 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
1525 same order.
1526
1527PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
1528 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
1529 the different processes.
1530
145396a6
PH
1531PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
1532
3cd34f13
PH
1533PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
1534
11121d3d
JJ
1535JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
1536 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
1537
1538JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
1539 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
1540
1541JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
1542 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
1543 messages matching specified criteria.
1544
8def5aaf
PH
1545PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
1546
929ba01c
PH
1547PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
1548 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
1549
2632889e
PH
1550PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
1551 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
1552 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
1553 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
1554 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
1555 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
1556 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
1557 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
1558 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
1559 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
1560
944a9c55
PH
1561PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
1562 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
1563 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
1564
4a23603b
PH
1565PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
1566
4730f942
PH
1567PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
1568 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
1569 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
1570 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
1571 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
1572 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
1573 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
1574 the variable.
1575
30dba1e6
PH
1576PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
1577 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
1578
382afc6b
PH
1579PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
1580
a86229cf
PH
1581PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
1582
50c99ba6
PH
1583PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1584
d35e429d
PH
1585PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
1586 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
1587 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
1588 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
1589 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
1590 size of the count of files.
1591
f90d018c
PH
1592PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
1593
75def545
PH
1594PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
1595 used in LMTP mode:
1596
1597 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
1598 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
1599 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
1600 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
1601
1602 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
1603 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
1604 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
1605
1606PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
1607 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
1608 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
1609 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
1610 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
1611
c46782ef
PH
1612PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
1613 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
1614
71fafd95
PH
1615PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
1616 will now be deprecated.
1617
2c5db4fd
PH
1618PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
1619
9cf6b11a
JJ
1620JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
1621 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
1622 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
1623
1624JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
1625 with very large, slow to parse queues
1626
1627JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
1628
1629JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
1630
898d150f
PH
1631PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
1632 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
1633 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
1634 SMTP output lines.
1635
46218253
PH
1636PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
1637 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
1638 Sieve code now uses this.
1639
e97957bc
PH
1640PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
1641 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
1642
81e509d7
PH
1643PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
1644 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
1645
3d240ff7
PH
1646PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
1647
b37c4101
PH
1648PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
1649 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
1650 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
1651 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
1652 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
1653
79378e0f
PH
1654PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
1655 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
1656 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
1657 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
1658
e49c7bb4
PH
1659PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
1660
d114ec46
PH
1661PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
1662
f3d7df6c
PH
1663PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
1664 is preferred over IPv4.
1665
715ab376
PH
1666PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
1667 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
1668 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
1669 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
1670 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
1671 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
1672 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
1673
6b31b150
PH
1674PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
1675 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
1676 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
1677
1678PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
1679
d515a917
PH
1680PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
1681 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
1682 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
1683 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
1684 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
1685 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
1686 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
1687 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
1688 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
1689 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
1690 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
1691
9b8fadde
PH
1692PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
1693 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
1694 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
1695
214e2000 1696
5de37277
PH
1697Exim version 4.60
1698-----------------
1699
cc38ddbf
PH
1700PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
1701
1702 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
1703 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
1704
1705 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
1706 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
1707 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 1708
72fdd6ae
PH
1709PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
1710
1711 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
1712 not a single digit.
1713
1714 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
1715 string.
1716
1717 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
1718 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
1719 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
1720 silly things.
1721
1722 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
1723 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
1724
1725 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
1726 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 1727
cb741023
PH
1728PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
1729 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
1730 "/bin:/usr/bin".
1731
f174f16e
PH
1732PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
1733 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 1734
c25242d7
PH
1735PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
1736 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
1737
1738 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
1739
1740 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
1741 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
1742 this:
1743
1744 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
1745
82c19f95
PH
1746PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
1747 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
1748 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
1749 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
1750 identical. For example:
1751
1752 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
1753
1754 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
1755 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
1756 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
1757
d7ffbc12
PH
1758PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
1759 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
1760 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
1761 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
1762
9f526266
PH
1763PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
1764 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
1765 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
1766 message.
1767
87fcc8b9
PH
1768PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
1769
1770 o fixes some comments
1771 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
1772 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
1773 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
1774 and documents the missing references header update
1775
1776 and most important:
1777
1778 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
1779 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
1780 result)
1781
456682f5
PH
1782PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
1783 Electronic Mail") by including:
1784
1785 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
1786
1787 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
1788 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
1789 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
1790 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
1791 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
1792
1793 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
1794
1795 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
1796
1797 The auto-replied keyword:
1798
1799 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
1800 message by an automatic process,
1801
1802 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
1803
1804 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
1805 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
1806
1807 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
1808 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
1809 other messages.
1810
3e46c1aa
PH
1811PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
1812 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 1813
49826d12
PH
1814PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
1815
eba0c039
PH
1816PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
1817 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
1818 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
1819
a0d6ba8a
PH
1820PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
1821 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
1822 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
1823
f0917727
PH
1824PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
1825 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
1826 and treats the condition as false.
1827
096fee00
PH
1828PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
1829
024bd3c2
PH
1830PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
1831 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
1832 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
1833 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
1834 not changing the active code.
1835
1836 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
1837 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
1838
1839 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
1840 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
1841
df199fec
PH
1842PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
1843 (Bugzilla #53).
1844
d27f1df3
PH
1845PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
1846 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
1847 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
1848 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
1849 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
1850 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
1851 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
1852 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
1853 the text comparison.
1854
96776534
PH
1855PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
1856 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
1857 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
1858 The same fix has been applied.
1859
5de37277 1860
9a799bc0
PH
1861Exim version 4.54
1862-----------------
1863
1864PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
1865 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
1866 It now does.
1867
99a4b039
PH
1868PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
1869 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
1870
1871PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
1872
4b233853
PH
1873PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
1874 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
1875 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
1876 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
1877 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
1878
8857ccfd
PH
1879TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
1880 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
1881 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
1882 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
1883 or /domain=).
1884
433a2980
PH
1885PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
1886 testing suite.
1887
3e46c1aa 1888
9a799bc0 1889
e3a311ba
TK
1890Exim version 4.53
1891-----------------
1892
1893TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
1894 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
1895
13b685f9
PH
1896PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
1897
395ff96d
PH
1898PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
1899
5b68f6e4
PH
1900PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
1901 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
1902 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
1903
1ab52c69
PH
1904PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
1905 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
1906 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
1907
b07e6aa3
PH
1908PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
1909 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
1910 operating systems.
1911
254e032f
PH
1912PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
1913 ${stat: expansion item.
1914
3af76a81
PH
1915PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
1916 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
1917
2548ba04
PH
1918PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
1919 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
1920 file for comments.
1921
b6c6011d
PH
1922PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
1923
cf39cf57
PH
1924PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
1925 setting.
1926
f1513293
PH
1927PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
1928 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
1929
727549a4
PH
1930TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
1931
af46795e
PH
1932PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
1933 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
1934 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
1935 the end of the subprocess.
1936
d7b47fd0
PH
1937PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
1938 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
1939 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
1940 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
1941 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
1942
ee744174
JJ
1943JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
1944
b582ab87
PH
1945TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
1946
41a13e0a
PH
1947PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
1948 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
1949
f625cc5a
PH
1950PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
1951
1952PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
1953
21f7af35
PH
1954PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
1955 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
1956 HP-UX compiler.
1957
31480e42
PH
1958PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
1959
2d280592
PH
1960PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
1961 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
1962 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
1963
7cd1141b
PH
1964PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
1965 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
1966
1967PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
1968 host errors such as "Connection refused".
1969
750af86e
PH
1970PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
1971 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
1972
1973 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
1974 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
1975
1976 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
1977 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
1978 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
1979 contributed by a Radius user.
1980
1981PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
1982 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
1983
4304270b
TK
1984TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
1985 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
1986
750af86e
PH
1987PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
1988 available.
1989
64ffc24f
PH
1990PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
1991 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
1992 received.
1993
5dd9625b
PH
1994PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
1995 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
1996 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
1997 header lines when this was not necessary.
1998
5591031b
PH
1999PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2000
ba18e66a
PH
2001PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2002 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2003 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2004 exists".
2005
9cec981f
PH
2006PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2007 -bV or -d is used.
2008
aa2b5c79
PH
2009PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2010 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2011 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2012 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2013
48a53b7f
PH
2014PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2015
1c59d63b
PH
2016PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2017
671012da
TK
2018TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2019
1509d3a8
PH
2020PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2021
2022PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2023 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2024 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2025 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2026 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2027 settings.
2028
2029PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2030
2fe1a124
PH
2031PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2032 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2033 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2034 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2035 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2036 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2037 which is clearly wrong.
2038
8800895a
PH
2039PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2040
ccfdb010
PH
2041PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2042 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2043 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2044 subsequently added.
2045
1130bfb0
PH
2046PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2047 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2048
ebcb507f
PH
2049PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2050
c35e155c
PH
2051PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2052 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2053
95d1f782
PH
2054PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2055 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2056
fd6de02e
PH
2057PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2058 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2059
58de37c5
PH
2060PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2061 recipients, not senders.
2062
261cf466
TF
2063TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2064 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2065
3ee512ff
PH
2066PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2067
e08c430f
PH
2068PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2069
bef5a11f
PH
2070PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2071 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2072 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2073 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2074
7546de58
TF
2075TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2076
e5d5a95f
TF
2077TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2078 clock is set back in time.
2079
2e88a017
TF
2080TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2081 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2082
a5f65aa4
TF
2083TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2084 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2085
e7726cbf
PH
2086PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2087 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2088 (see PH/47 above).
2089
a7fdad5b
TF
2090TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2091 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2092 header rewrites.
2093
6af56900
PH
2094PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2095 type ("H").
2096
0925ede6
PH
2097PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2098
66afa403
TF
2099TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2100 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2101 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2102
0154e85a
TF
2103TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2104 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2105 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2106 helo verification defer as a failure.
2107
16f12c76
PH
2108PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2109 actual error message.
2110
bbe902f0 2111
e5a9dba6
PH
2112Exim version 4.52
2113-----------------
2114
2115TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2116
22c3b60b
PH
2117PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2118 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2119 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2120 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2121
06a9b4b5
PH
2122TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2123
c1ac6996
PH
2124PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2125 can still be requested.
2126
9c7a242c
PH
2127PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2128 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2129 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2130 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2131
87ba3f5f
PH
2132TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2133 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2134 circumstances, but probably never did.
2135
2136PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2137 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2138 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2139 in the header line.
2140
29aba418
TF
2141TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2142
fe0dab11
TF
2143TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2144 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2145
11d337a4
TK
2146TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2147
2148TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2149
415c8f3b
PH
2150PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2151 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2152 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2153 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2154 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2155 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2156
958541e9
PH
2157PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2158 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2159 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2160 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2161 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2162 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2163
c206415f
TK
2164TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2165 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2166
2a4be8f9
PH
2167PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2168 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2169
1cba11c5
SC
2170SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2171 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2172
2173SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2174
2175SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2176
2177SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2178
2179SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2180
2181SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2182
2183SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2184
1005d00e
TK
2185TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2186
2187TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2188 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2189 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2190
2191TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2192 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2193 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2194 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2195
9b4768fa
PH
2196PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2197 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2198 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2199
2200PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2201 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2202 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2203 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2204
0d7eb84a
PH
2205PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2206 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2207 to be made).
2208
2209PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2210 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2211 should work with maildirs and everything.
2212
40727bee
TK
2213TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2214 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2215
554d2369
TF
2216TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2217 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2218
1f922db1
PH
2219PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2220 function for BDB 4.3.
2221
ef213c3b
PH
2222PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2223
8ac170f3
PH
2224PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2225 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2226 involved.
2227
b1c749bb
PH
2228PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2229 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2230 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2231 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2232 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2233 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2234
4aac9b49
PH
2235PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2236 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2237 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2238 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2239 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2240 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2241 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2242 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2243
294520c8
TK
2244TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2245 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2246 details.
2247
5bd022fe
PH
2248PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2249 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2250
90e9ce59
PH
2251PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2252 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2253 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2254 test. It is now used for both.
2255
5ea81592
PH
2256PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2257 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2258 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2259 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2260 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2261 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2262
c6c2dc1d
PH
2263PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2264 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2265 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2266 string_vformat().
2267
fffffe4c
PH
2268PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2269 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2270 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 2271
9a26b6b2
PH
2272PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2273 experimental DomainKeys support:
2274
2275 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2276 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2277 the control was given.
2278
2279 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2280
4aee0225
PH
2281PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2282
32d668a5
PH
2283PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2284
8187c3f3
PH
2285PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2286 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2287 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2288 db.h files).
2289
ff790e47 2290PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
2291 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2292 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2293 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2294 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2295 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2296 course.
ff790e47 2297
5417f6d1
PH
2298PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2299 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2300 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2301 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2302 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2303 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2304
59cf8544
PH
2305PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2306 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2307 do -d+all out of habit.
2308
e7ad8a65
PH
2309PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2310 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2311 x86_64 Fedora Core.
2312
ade42478
PH
2313PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2314 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2315 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2316 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2317 record types that Exim uses.
2318
182ad5cf
PH
2319PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2320 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2321 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2322 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2323 non-existent file that was broken.
2324
b0d9fc80
TK
2325TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2326 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2327
2328TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2329 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2330 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2331
2332TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2333
47c7a64a
PH
2334PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2335 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2336 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2337 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2338 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2339 same time.
2340
a388bce4
SC
2341SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2342 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2343 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2344 at a slight CPU cost.
2345
2346SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2347 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2348
2349SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2350 by Marc Sherman.
2351
0793e4ed
SC
2352SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2353
c58b88df
PH
2354PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2355 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2356
e7ad8a65 2357
7982096b
PH
2358Exim version 4.51
2359-----------------
2360
1a46a8c5
PH
2361TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2362 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2363
2f079f46 2364TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
2365
2366TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2367
2368PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2369 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2370
2371PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2372 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2373 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2374 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2375 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2376 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2377 file.
2378
2379PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2380 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2381 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2382 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2383 these two options.
2384
2385PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2386 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2387 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2388 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2389 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2390 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2391 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 2392 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
2393
2394PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2395 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2396
2397PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2398 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2399 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2400 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2401 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2402 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2403
2404PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2405 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2406 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2407 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2408
2409PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2410 Finch).
2411
2412PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2413 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 2414
49c2d5ea
PH
2415PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2416 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
2417 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2418 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2419 message.
49c2d5ea 2420
bf759a8b
PH
2421PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2422
83364d30
PH
2423PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2424 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2425
7999bbd7
PH
2426PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2427 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2428 to what was transported.)
2429
7dbf77c9
PH
2430TF/01 Added $received_time.
2431
74e0617f
PH
2432PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2433 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2434 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2435 spamd_address settings.
2436
2f079f46
PH
2437PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2438 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2439 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2440 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2441 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2442
8c841523
PH
2443PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2444
7766a4f0
PH
2445PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2446 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2447 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2448 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2449 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2450
8b417f2c
PH
2451PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2452 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2453
901f42cb
PH
2454PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2455 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2456 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2457 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2458 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2459 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2460 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2461 for failure.
2462
f9b9210e
PH
2463PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2464 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2465 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2466 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2467 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2468 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2469 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2470 "input=".
2471
54cdb463
PH
2472PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2473
cf00dad6
PH
2474PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2475 driver and ACL definitions.
2476
acb1b346
PH
2477PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2478 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2479
c5ddb310
PH
2480PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2481 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2482 understands it better than I do:
2483
2484 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2485 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2486
2487 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2488 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2489 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2490 => three warnings about OTP not working
2491 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2492
2493 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2494 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2495 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2496 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2497 for each call.)
2498 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2499 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2500
2501 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2502 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2503 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2504
31619da6
PH
2505PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2506 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2507 specified.
2508
bebaf0fc
PH
2509PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2510 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2511 "Linux".
2512
475fe28a
PH
2513PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2514 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2515 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2516
2517 warn !verify = sender
2518 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
2519
2520 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
2521 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
2522
7e8bec7a
PH
2523PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
2524
2525 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
2526 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
2527
2528 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
2529 nomenclature these days.)
2530
e4a89c47
PH
2531PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
2532 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
2533
5ca2a9a1
PH
2534PH/30 In these circumstances:
2535 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
2536 . First host does not offer TLS;
2537 . First host accepts first address;
2538 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
2539 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
2540 . Second host accepts second address.
2541 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
2542 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
2543 address.
7e8bec7a 2544
c688b954
PH
2545PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
2546 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
2547 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
2548 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
2549 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
2550
fed77020
PH
2551PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
2552 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
2553
7fe1560f
PH
2554PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
2555 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 2556
ebb6e6d5
PH
2557PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
2558 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
2559 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
2560
9c4e8f60
PH
2561PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
2562 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
2563 overlooked.
2564
2565PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
2566
d7174846
PH
2567PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
2568 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
2569 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
2570 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
2571 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
2572 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
2573 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
2574
2575 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
2576 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
2577 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
2578 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
2579 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
2580
2581 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
2582 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
2583 routed further.
2584
cfe75fc3
PH
2585PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
2586 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
2587 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
2588 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
2589 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
2590 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
2591
be22d70e
PH
2592PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
2593
0612b098
PH
2594PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
2595 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
2596 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
2597 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
2598 printable escape sequences.
2599
2e0c1448
PH
2600PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
2601 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
2602 body only.
2603
447d236c
PH
2604PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
2605 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
2606 are as follows:
2607
2608 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
2609 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
2610 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
2611 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
2612 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
2613
2614 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
2615 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
2616 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
2617
d20976dc
PH
2618PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
2619
f656d135
PH
2620PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
2621 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
2622 play with."
2623
2e2a30b4
PH
2624PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
2625 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
2626 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
2627 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
2628 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
2629 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
2630 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
2631 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
2632 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
2633 the log output.
2634
9176e9f0
PH
2635PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
2636 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
2637 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
2638 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
2639 "make".
2640
7982096b 2641
bbe902f0
PH
2642A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
2643----------------------------------------
2644
2645Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
2646changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
2647needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
2648in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
2649that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
2650release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
2651from 4.43.
2652
2653I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
26544.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
2655those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
2656historical information.
2657
2658
f7b63901 2659Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
2660-----------------
2661
5fe762f6
PH
2662 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
2663
139059f6 2664 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 2665 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 2666
7086e875
PH
2667 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
2668 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
2669 place.
2670
35af9f61
PH
2671 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
2672 filter fails to execute.
2673
b668c215
PH
2674 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
2675 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
2676 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
2677 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
2678 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
2679
a494b1e1
PH
2680 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
2681
2682 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
2683 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
2684 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
2685 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 2686
c5fcb476
PH
2687 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
2688 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
2689 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
2690 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
2691 control that does not make sense is encountered.
2692
69358f02
PH
2693 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
2694
5be20824
PH
269510. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
2696
eb2c0248
PH
269711. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
2698 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
2699 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
2700 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
2701
2a3eea10
PH
270212. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
2703 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
2704 sender verification.
2705
270613. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
2707 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
2708
23c7ff99
PH
270914. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
2710
4deaf07d
PH
271115. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
2712 connection timeout.
2713
926e1192
PH
271416. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
2715 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
2716
650edc6f
PH
271717. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
2718 the spool by the -Mrm option.
2719
2c7db3f5
PH
272018. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
2721 information about exactly what failed.
2722
3d235903
PH
272319. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
2724
7c7ad977
PH
272520. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
2726 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
2727 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
2728
981756db
PH
272921. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
2730 It is now set to "smtps".
2731
d4eb88df
PH
273222. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
2733 ignore_target_hosts.
2734
273523. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
2736 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
2737 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
2738 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
2739 "[x.x.x.x]".
2740
7d468ab8
PH
274124. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
2742 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
2743 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
2744
274525. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
2746 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
2747 wake it up if nothing else does.
2748
62c0818f
PH
274926. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
2750 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
2751 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
2752 end up negative.
2753
26034054
PH
275427. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
2755 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
2756
af66f652
PH
275728. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
2758
90af77f4
PH
275929. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
2760 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
2761 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
2762 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
2763 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
2764 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
2765 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
2766 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
2767
d8ef3577
PH
276830. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
2769 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
2770 than one IP address.
2771
5cb8cbc6
PH
277231. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
2773 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
2774 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
2775 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
2776
14702f5b
PH
277732. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
2778 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
2779 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
2780 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
2781 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
2782 1024 to 2048 bytes.
2783
063b1e99
PH
278433. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
2785 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
2786 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
2787 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
2788
652e1b65
PH
278934. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
2790 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
2791 respected.
2792
6f0c9a4f
PH
279335. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
2794 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
2795 $sender_host_address.
2796
33397d19
PH
279736. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
2798 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
2799 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
2800 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
2801 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
2802 very small.
2803
7bb56e1f
PH
280437. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
2805
2806 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
2807 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
2808
ea3bc19b
PH
2809 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
2810 just the host names, not the priorities.
2811
2812 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
2813 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
2814 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 2815
ea3bc19b 2816 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 2817 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 2818
0bcb2a0e
PH
281938. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
2820 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
2821 domain.
2822
2ac0e484
PH
282339. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
2824
4e1fde53
PH
282540. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
2826 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
2827
de365ded
PH
282841. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
2829 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
2830 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
2831
f05da2e8
PH
283242. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
2833
d6453af2
PH
283443. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
2835
f7b63901
PH
283644. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
2837
283845. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
2839 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
2840 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
2841 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
2842 because the tests only now provoked it.
2843
a444213a
PH
284446. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
2845 (this can affect the format of dates).
2846
0ec020ea
PH
284747. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
2848 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
2849 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
2850 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
2851
b1206957
PH
285248. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
2853
285449. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
2855 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
2856 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
2857 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
2858
26dd5a95
PH
285950. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
2860 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
2861 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
2862
343b2385
PH
286351. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
2864 autoreply.
2865
1c5466b9
PH
286652. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
2867 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
2868 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
2869 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
2870 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
2871 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
2872 is going on).
2873
55ee9ee3
PH
287453. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
2875 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
2876 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
2877 the line.
2878
d38f8232
PH
287954. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
2880 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
2881 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
2882
2883 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
2884 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
2885 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
2886 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
2887 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
2888 so I produce this patch..."
2889
3295e65b
PH
2890 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
2891 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
2892 is not defined.
2893
7102e136
PH
289455. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
2895 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
2896 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
2897 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 2898 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 2899
3ca0ba97
PH
290056. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
2901
c2bcbe20
PH
290257. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
2903 long debug lines gets shown.
2904
18ce445d
PH
290558. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
2906 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
2907
1f5b4c3d
PH
290859. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
2909
2910 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
2911 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
2912 of $primary_hostname.
2913
b975ba52
PH
291460. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
2915 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
2916 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
2917 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
2918 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
2919 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
2920 by change 4.50/55 above.
2921
2922 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
2923 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
2924 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
2925 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
2926 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
2927 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 2928 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
2929
293061. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
2931 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
2932 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 2933 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 2934
17ffcae7
PH
293562. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
2936 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
2937
d95f9fdb
PH
293863. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
2939 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
2940 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
2941 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
2942 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
2943
86b8287f
PH
294464. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
2945 This has been fixed.
2946
60dc5e56
PH
294765. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
2948 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
2949 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
2950 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
2951 the caching.)
2952
533244af
PH
295366. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
2954
a5a28604
PH
295567. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
2956 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
2957 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
2958 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
2959
7e634d24
PH
296068. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
2961 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
2962
3e11c26b
PH
296369. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
2964 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
2965 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
2966
6729cf78
PH
296770. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
2968 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
2969 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
2970 message there.
2971
00f00ca5
PH
297271. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
2973 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
2974 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
2975
c9bdd01c
PH
297672. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
2977 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
2978 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
2979 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
2980
d43194df
PH
298173. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
2982 during host lookups.
2983
fe5b5d0b
PH
298474. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
2985 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
2986
2987 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
2988
76a2d7ba
PH
298975. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
2990 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
2991 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
2992 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
2993 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
2994 background.
2995
299676. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
2997 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
2998
04f7d5b9
PH
299977. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3000 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3001 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3002
bc60667e
PH
300378. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3004
bb6e88ff
PH
300579. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3006 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3007 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3008 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3009 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3010 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3011 process earlier.
3012
1e70f85b
PH
301380. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3014 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3015 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3016 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3017 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3018
301981. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3020 tables).
3021
4e01f9d6
PH
302282. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3023
1ee1cef2
PH
302483. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3025 "vacation" handling.
3026
6e2b4ccc
PH
302784. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3028 OS variants using glibc.
3029
8e669ac1
PH
303085. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3031
495ae4b0 3032
bbe902f0
PH
3033----------------------------------------------------
3034See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3035----------------------------------------------------
3036
3037
3038Exim version 4.44
3039-----------------
3040
3041 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3042 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3043 transport
3044
3045 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3046 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3047 place.
3048
3049 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3050 filter fails to execute.
3051
3052 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3053 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3054 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3055 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3056 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3057
3058 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3059 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3060 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3061 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3062
3063 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3064 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3065 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3066 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3067 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3068
3069 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3070
3071 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3072 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3073 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3074 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3075
3076 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3077 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3078 sender verification.
3079
308010. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3081 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3082
308311. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3084 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3085
308612. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3087 ignore_target_hosts.
3088
308913. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3090 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3091 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3092 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3093 "[x.x.x.x]".
3094
309514. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3096 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3097 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3098
309915. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3100 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3101 wake it up if nothing else does.
3102
310316. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3104 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3105 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3106 end up negative.
3107
310817. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3109 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3110
ea3a6f44 311118. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3112
311319. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3114 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3115 empty pattern.
3116
311720. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3118 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3119 one IP address.
3120
ea3a6f44
NM
312121. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3122 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3123 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3124 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3125 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3126 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3127
ea3a6f44
NM
312822. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3129 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3130 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3131
313223. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3133 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3134 $sender_host_address.
3135
313624. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3137
ea3a6f44
NM
313825. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3139 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3140 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3141
314226. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3143 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3144
ea3a6f44
NM
314527. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3146 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3147
ea3a6f44
NM
314828. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3149 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3150 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3151 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3152
315329. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3154 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3155 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3156
ea3a6f44
NM
315730. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3158 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3159 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3160 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3161
ea3a6f44
NM
316231. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3163 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3164 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3165
ea3a6f44
NM
316631. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3167 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3168
ea3a6f44
NM
316932. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3170 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3171 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3172 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3173 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3174 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3175 is going on).
bbe902f0 3176
ea3a6f44
NM
317733. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3178 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3179 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3180 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3181 CAN-2005-0021
3182
ea3a6f44
NM
318334. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3184 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3185 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3186 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3187 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3188 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3189 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3190
3191 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3192 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3193 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3194 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3195 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3196 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3197 CAN-2005-0021
3198
ea3a6f44
NM
319935. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3200 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3201 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3202 CAN-2005-0022
3203
ea3a6f44
NM
320436. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3205 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3206 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3207 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3208 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3209
ea3a6f44
NM
321037. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3211 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3212 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3213 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3214 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3215
ea3a6f44
NM
321638. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3217 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3218 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3219 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3220 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3221
3222
495ae4b0
PH
3223Exim version 4.43
3224-----------------
3225
3226 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3227 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3228 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3229 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3230 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3231 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3232 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3233
3234 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3235 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3236 the delivery.
3237
3238 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3239
3240 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3241
3242 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3243 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3244 to local_scan().
3245
3246 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3247 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3248 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3249 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3250 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3251
3252 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3253 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3254
3255 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3256
3257 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3258
325910. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3260 header_sender only.
3261
326211. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3263 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3264
326512. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3266 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3267 affecting debugging statements).
3268
326913. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3270
327114. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3272 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3273 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3274 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3275 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3276 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3277 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3278 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3279 after the received time, and all would be well.
3280
328115. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3282 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3283 condition in an expansion string.
3284
328516. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3286
328717. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3288 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3289 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3290 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3291 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3292 job under whatever limits there are.
3293
329418. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3295
329619. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3297 space).
3298
329920. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3300 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3301 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3302 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3303 return path is set.
3304
330521. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3306 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3307 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3308 binary data in such strings.
3309
331022. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3311
331223. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3313 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3314 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3315 failure, which is pointless.
3316
331724. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3318
331925. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3320
332126. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3322 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3323 Sender: header lines.
3324
332527. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3326 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3327 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3328
332928. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3330 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3331 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3332 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3333 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3334 happens.
3335
333629. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3337 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3338 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3339 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3340 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3341
334230. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3343 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3344 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3345 1024.
3346
334731. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3348 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3349
335032. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3351 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3352
335333. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3354
335532. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3356
335733. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3358
335934. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3360 syntax error.
3361
336235. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3363
336436. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3365
336637. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3367 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3368 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3369 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3370
337138. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3372 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3373
3374
3375Exim version 4.42
3376-----------------
3377
3378 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3379 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3380 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3381 it was not quoted.
3382 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3383 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3384 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3385 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3386 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3387 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3388
3389 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3390 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3391 verification failure".
3392
3393 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3394 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3395 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3396 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3397
3398 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3399 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3400 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3401 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3402 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3403 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3404 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3405 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3406 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3407 treated as a timeout.
3408
3409 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3410 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3411 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3412 not set for Exim filters).
3413
3414 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3415 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3416 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3417
3418 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3419
3420 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3421 try to make them clearer.
3422
3423 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3424 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3425
3426 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3427
3428 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3429
343010. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3431 only the Cygwin environment.
3432
343311. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3434 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3435 remote delivery occurred, the wro