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495ae4b0 1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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8Exim version 4.90
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10
11JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
12 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
13 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
14 pairs of long lines into single ones.
15
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16PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
17 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
18
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19JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
20 This permits better logging.
21
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22JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
23 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
24 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
25 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
26 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
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27 cipher, Certificate or OCSP information. A "continued-TLS" marker is
28 added instead of the cipher information: "X=*".
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30JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
31 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
32 "exiwhat" output.
33
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34PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
35 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
36 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
37
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38JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
39 than 255 are no longer allowed.
40
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9427e879 45JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 46 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
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48JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
49
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50PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
51 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
52
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53JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
54 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
55
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56JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
57 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
58 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
59 before acknowledging the chunk.
60
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61PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
62 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
63 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
64
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65JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
66 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
67 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
68 should.
69
70JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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71 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
72 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
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bd8fbe36 74JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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75 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
76
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77JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
78 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
79 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
80 body hash calculated value.
81
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82JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
83 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
84 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
85
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86JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
87
88JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
89 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
90
91JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
92 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
93 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
94
95JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
96 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
97 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
98 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
99 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
100 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
101
102JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
103 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
104 past that check, despite the cost.
105
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106JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
107 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
108 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
109
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110PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
111 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
112 TLS library to consume.
113
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114PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
115
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116PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
117
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118JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
119 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
120 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
121 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
122 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
123 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
124 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
125
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126PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
127
128PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
129
130PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
131 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
132 should be warning-free.
133
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134JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
135
136HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
137 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
138
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139HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
140 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
141 general solution here.
142
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143PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
144 already-broken messages in the queue.
145
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146JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
147
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148JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
149
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151Exim version 4.88
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154JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
155 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 156
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157JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
158 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
159 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
160
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161JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
162 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
163 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
164 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
165 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
166 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
167 if one fails this test.
168 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
169 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
170
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171JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
172 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
173
23bb6982 174JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 175 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 176
0bd1b1ed 177JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 178 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 179
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180JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
181 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
182
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183JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
184 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
185
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186JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
187
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188JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
189 certificate).
190
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191JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
192 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
193 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
194 connection after a verify cache hit.
195 Do not update it with the verify result either.
196
197JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
198 when routing results in more than one destination address.
199
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200JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
201 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
202 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
203 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
204 when the cutthrough connection is made).
205
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206JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
207 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
208
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209JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
210 Previously they were not counted.
211
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212JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
213 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
214 that needed the lookup.
215
4c04137d 216JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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217 distinguished as "(=".
218
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219JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
220 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
221
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222JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
223
224JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
225 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 226
4c04137d 227JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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228 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
229
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230JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
231 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
232 compatible.
233
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234JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
235 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
236 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
237 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
238
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239JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
240
f59aaaaa 241JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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242 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
243 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 244
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245JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
246 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
247 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
248 be lost.
249
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250JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
251 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
252 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
253 itself :(
254
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255JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
256 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
257 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
258
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259JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
260 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
261 options.
262
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263JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
264
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265PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
266 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
267
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268PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
269 are not in the system include path.
270
ad7fc6eb 271JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 272 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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273 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
274 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 275
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276JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
277 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
278 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
279
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280JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
281
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282HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
283 an incoming connection.
284
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285HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
286 to rspamd.
287
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288HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
289 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 290
87cb4a16 291JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 292 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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293
294
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295Exim version 4.87
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298JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
299 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
300 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
301 client dropping the TLS connection.
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303TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
304 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
305
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306TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
307 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
308 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
309 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
310 outgoing I= field.
311
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312JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
313 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
314 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
315 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
316 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
317 check on the next write.
318
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319HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
320 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
321 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
322 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
323 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
324
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325JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
326 mime_regex ACL conditions.
327
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328JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
329 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
330 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
331
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332JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
333 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
334 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
335 an authenticate fail is not an error.
336
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337HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
338 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
339
4c04137d 340JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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341 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
342
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343JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
344 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
345 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
346 distinct.
347
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348JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
349
350JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
351
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352JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
353
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354JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
355 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
356
98b98887 357JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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358 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
359
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360JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
361
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362JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
363 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
364
365JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
366
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367JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
368 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
369
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370JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
371
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372JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
373 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 374 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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375 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
376 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
377 they will retry in-clear.
378 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
379 at installation time.
380
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381HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
382 with the $config_file variable.
383
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384JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
385 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
386 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
387 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 388 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 389
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390GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
391 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
392 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
393 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
394 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
395
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396JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
397
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398JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
399 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
400 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
401 list order is no longer honoured.
402
4c04137d 403JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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404 for DKIM processing.
405
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406JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
407 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
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409JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
410 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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411 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
412 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 413
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414JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
415 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
416
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417JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
418 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
419
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420JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
421 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
422
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423JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
424
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425JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
426 cached by the daemon.
427
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428JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
429 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
430
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431JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
432 keys are given for lookup.
433
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434JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
435 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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436 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
437 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 438
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439JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
440 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
441 server-side so match that on older versions.
442
07c73177 443JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 444 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 445 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 446
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447JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
448 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
449
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450JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
451 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
452 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 453 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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454 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
455 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
456 initial truncated version.
457
ab9152ff 458JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 459
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460JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
461
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462JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
463 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
464
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465JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
466
bc3c7bb7 467HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
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469JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
470 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
471 induced overflows.
472
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473JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
474 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
475 stage.
476
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477JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
478 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
479
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480JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
481 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
482 former class.
483
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484JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
485 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
486 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
487
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488JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
489 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
490 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
491 extraction. Accept either.
492
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497JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
498 expanded.
499
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500JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
501
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502JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
503 it.
504
01a4a5c5 505JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 506 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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507 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
508 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
509
cb1d7830 510JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 511 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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512 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
513
610ff438 514JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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515 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
516 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
517 TLS connections
610ff438 518
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519JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
520 sites use this now.
521
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522JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
523 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
524 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
525 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
526 have a dsn_lasthop option.
527
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528JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
529 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 530 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 531
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532JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
533
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534JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
535 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
536
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537JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
538 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
539
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540JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
541 /defer_ok option.
542
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543JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
544 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
545
fd4d8871 546JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 547 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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548 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
549
550JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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551 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
552 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 553
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554JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
555 timeout value per server.
556
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557JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
558 now have the list separator specified.
559
8a512ed5 560JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 561 option values.
8a512ed5 562
82c0c8ea 563JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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564 under OpenSSL.
565
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566JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
567
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568JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
569 rather than the verbs used.
570
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571JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
572 from 255 to 1024 chars.
573
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574JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
575
cfab9d68 576HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 577 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 578
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579JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
580 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
581
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582HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
583 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
584
4c04137d 585JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 586
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587JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
588
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589JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
590 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 591 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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592 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
593
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594JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
595
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596JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
597 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
598
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599JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
600 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
601
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602JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
603
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604JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
605
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606JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
607
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608JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
609 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
610
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611JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
612 added for tls authenticator.
613
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614HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
615
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620TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
621 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
622 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
623 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
624 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
625 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
626 the script parsing/test process like normal.
627
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628TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
629 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
630 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
631 function when detected.
632
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633JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
634 cause callback expansion.
635
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636TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
637 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
638 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
639 instead of bool when processing it.
640
0f06b4f2 641JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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642 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
643
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644JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
645
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646JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
647
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648TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
649
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650TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
651 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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653JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
654 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
655 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
656 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 657 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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658 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
659
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660JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
661 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
662 exceeded it.
663
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664JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
665 version 3.3.6 or later.
666
4c04137d 667JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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668 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
669 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 670 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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671 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
672 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
673 option is defined.
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675TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
676 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
677
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678JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
679 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
680 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
681 matches.
682
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683JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
684 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
685 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
686
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687JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
688 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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689
690JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
691 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
692 syntax errors.
693
3394b36a 694JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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695
696JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
697 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
698
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699TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
700 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
701 tarball.
702
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703JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
704
4c04137d 705JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
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706 Bug 1561.
707
708JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
709 output list separator was used.
710
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714TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
715 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
716 return.
1f0ebb98 717
a612424f 718JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 719 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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720
721JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
722
723TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 724 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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729
730TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
731
732 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
733 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
734 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
735 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
736 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
737 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
738
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739TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
740 utilities have not been installed.
741
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742JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
743 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
744
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745TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
746 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
747
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748TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
749 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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750 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
751 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
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753JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
754
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755TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
756 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
757
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758PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
759 not dns_use_dnssec.
760
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761JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
762
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763TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
764 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
765 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
766
8ddef691 767TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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768 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
769 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
770 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
771 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 772 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 773
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774JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
775
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776JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
777 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
778
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779JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
780 failed delivery.
781
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782JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
783
511a6c14 784JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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785
786JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
787 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 788
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789JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
790 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
791
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792TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
793
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794JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
795
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796JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
797 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
798
799 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
800 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
801 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
802
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803TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
804 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
805 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
806 analysis.
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808JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
809
8c51eead 810JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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811 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
812 lookup).
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814TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
815 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
816 Schlichting.
35aba663 817
fd3b6a4a 818JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 819 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 820
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821TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
822 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
823
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824JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
825
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826TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
827 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
828 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
829
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830JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
831 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
832
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833JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
834 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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835 hosts_request_ocsp.
836
ed3bba5f 837JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 838 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 839 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
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841JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
842
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843TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
844 Christian Aistleitner.
845
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846JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
847
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848TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
849 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
850
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851JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
852 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
853
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854JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
855 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
856
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857TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
858 support and error reporting did not work properly.
859
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860TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
861 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
862
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863TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
864 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
865 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
866
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867JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
868
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869PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
870 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
871 Jasper Wallace.
872
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873JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
874
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875TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
876 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
877 CVE-2014-2972
878
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883PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
884
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885PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
886 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
887
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888PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
889 by GnuTLS.
890
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891PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
892 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
893 routines.
894
13363eba 895PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 896
66645890 897PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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898 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
899 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
900 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
901 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 902
a3fb9793 903PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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904 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
905 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
906 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 907 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 908 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 909
d27f98fe 910TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 911
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912TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
913
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914TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
915 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
916
ae0e32ee 917TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 918 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 919 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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921TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
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923TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
924
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925TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
926 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
927
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928JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
929
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930JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
931
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932PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
933
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934NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
935 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 936
585121e2 937JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
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939PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
940 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
941 function.
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943PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
944 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
945
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946JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
947 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
948 "acl = name arg..."
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950JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
951
3a796370
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952JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
953
ea722490 954JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
955 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
956
b1b05573
JH
957JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
958 Bugzilla 884.
959
362145b5
JH
960JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
961 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
962
3c0a92dc
JH
963JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
964 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
965
6d7c6175
PP
966PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
967 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 968 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 969
6f123593
JH
970JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
971 authenticators.
972
c8e2fc1e
JH
973JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
974 for control.
975
005ac57f
PP
976PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
977
3f1df0e3
PP
978PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
979 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
980 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
981 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
982
67bd1ab3
TF
983TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
984
985 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
986 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
987 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
988 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
989 the retry rules.
990
991 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
992 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
993 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
994
995 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
996 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
997 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
998 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
999
1ddeb334
TF
1000 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1001 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1002 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1003 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1004 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1005 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1006 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1007
1008 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1009 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1010
326cdc37
TF
1011TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1012
1013 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1014
1015 Resent-From: f
1016
1017 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1018 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1019 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1020 username as equal to the username.
1021
1022 This change corrects that bug.
1023
f62514b3
GF
1024GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1025 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1026 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1027
eb505532
TF
1028TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1029
14c7b357
PP
1030PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1031 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1032 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1033 NULL dereference and crash.
1034
94eaf700
PP
1035JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1036
6f5a440a
PP
1037PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1038 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1039 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1040
514ee161
SC
1041SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1042
fd98a5c6
JH
1043JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1044 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1045 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1046 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1047 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1048 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1049 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1050 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1051 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1052 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1053 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1054
035c7f1e
PP
1055PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1056 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1057
ff284120
PP
1058PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1059 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1060 Bugzilla 880.
1061
26e72755
PP
1062PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1063 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1064 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1065 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1066 an empty string is now equivalent.
1067
0fbd9bff
PP
1068PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1069 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1070 not performing validation itself.
1071
700d22f3
PP
1072PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1073 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1074
fcc8e047
JH
1075JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1076 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1077
4c04137d 1078TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1079
8c020188
PP
1080PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1081 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1082 other false fix of the same issue.
1083 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1084 Bugzilla 1363.
1085
d13cdd30
PP
1086PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1087 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1088
e2fbf4a2
PP
1089PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1090 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1091 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1092
f4c1088b
PP
1093PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1094 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1095 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1096
c5c2182f
PP
1097TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1098
73431ca9
JH
1099JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1100
2d07a215
TL
1101TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1102 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1103
a30a8861
TL
1104TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1105 Alexander Miroch.
1106
33382dd9
TL
1107TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1108 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1109 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1110 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1111 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1112
046172e6
TL
1113TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1114 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1115
581d7bee 1116TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1117 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1118 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1119
1120TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1121 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1122 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1123 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1124
237b2cf2
TL
1125TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1126
9fc5a352
TL
1127TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1128 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1129 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1130
b10e4ec2
TL
1131TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1132
e2cebd74
TL
1133TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1134 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1135 interaction.
1136
1137TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1138 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1139
2519e60d
TL
1140TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1141 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1142
e78e6ecf 1143
4263f395
PP
1144Exim version 4.80.1
1145-------------------
1146
1147PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1148 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1149 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1150
ea722490 1151
b1770b6e 1152Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1153-----------------
1154
1155PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1156 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1157 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1158
23c7e742
NM
1159NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1160
b322aac8
NM
1161NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1162 improved.
1163
4a891427
NM
1164NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1165
c1e794ba 1166PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1167
97753960
PP
1168PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1169
1170PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1171 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1172
df6303fa
PP
1173PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1174 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1175
7e6a8985
PP
1176PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1177 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1178
f1e05cc7 1179PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1180 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1181 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1182
4c287009
PP
1183PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1184
b98bb9ac
PP
1185PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1186 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1187
4a6a987a
PP
1188PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1189
c45dd180 1190PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1191
7db8d074
PP
1192PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1193 non-compliant senders.
1194 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1195
eae0036b 1196NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1197 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1198 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1199
dec5017e
PP
1200PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1201 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1202 in spool file corruption.
1203
c80c5570
PP
1204PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1205 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1206 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1207 "Got SSL error 2".
1208
076b11e2
PP
1209TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1210 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1211 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1212
5407bfff
JH
1213JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1214 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1215
9e45c72b
PP
1216JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1217
e74376d8
PP
1218PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1219 diagnostics.
1220 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1221
4c04137d 1222PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1223 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1224 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1225
7be682ca
PP
1226PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1227 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1228 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1229 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1230
ef840681
PP
1231PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1232 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1233
5bfb4cdf
PP
1234PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1235 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1236 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1237 resolver implementation change.
1238
c6e95d22
PP
1239PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1240 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1241
9cbad13b
PP
1242PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1243
9ee44efb
PP
1244PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1245
6a6084f8
PP
1246PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1247 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1248
12dd53c7
PP
1249PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1250 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1251
9e45c72b 1252JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1253 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1254
17c76198
PP
1255PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1256 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1257 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1258 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1259 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1260
53947857 1261PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1262
eae0036b 1263PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1264 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1265 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1266
9e45c72b 1267JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1268
7390e768
PP
1269PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1270 read-only, out of scope).
1271 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1272
08488c86
PP
1273PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1274 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1275 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1276 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1277
6475bd82
PP
1278PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1279
81f91683
PP
1280PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1281 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1282 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1283 real issues in debug logging.
1284
5779e6aa
PP
1285PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1286 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1287
3375e053
PP
1288PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1289 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1290 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1291
1292PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1293 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1294 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1295 problems.
3375e053 1296
9d26b8c0
PP
1297PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1298 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1299
57eb9e91 1300PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1301 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1302 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1303 needs to override this, it can.
1304
16880d1a
PP
1305PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1306 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1307 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1308
a799883d
PP
1309PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1310 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1311 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1312 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1313
3ecab157 1314PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1315
0599f9cf 1316
867fcbf5
PP
1317Exim version 4.77
1318-----------------
1319
1320PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1321 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1322
f1a29782
TF
1323TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1324
ab42bd23
TK
1325TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1326 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1327
0ca0cf52
TF
1328TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1329 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1330
921b12ca
TF
1331TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1332 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1333 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1334
1335 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1336 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1337 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1338 not safe for signals.
1339
1340 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1341 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1342 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1343 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1344 exiwhat.
1345
c99ce5c9
TF
1346TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1347
1348 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1349 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1350 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1351 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1352 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1353
1354 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1355 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1356 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1357 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1358 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1359 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1360
1361 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1362 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1363 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1364 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1365
1366 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1367 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1368 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1369 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1370
1371 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1372 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1373 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1374 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1375 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1376 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1377 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1378 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1379 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1380
1381 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1382 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1383 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1384 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1385
1386 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1387 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1388 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1389 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1390 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1391 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1392 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1393 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1394 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1395 details in the main documentation.
1396
3634fc25
TF
1397TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1398
792e8a19
TF
1399TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1400
5901f0ab
TF
1401TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1402 repository when doing development or release builds.
1403
7f2a2a43
PP
1404PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1405 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1406
061b7ebd
PP
1407PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1408 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1409 Bugzilla 97.
1410
e12f8c32
PP
1411PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1412
9e949f00 1413PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1414 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1415
1416PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1417 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1418
555ae6af 1419PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1420 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1421
1422PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1423 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1424
6f7fe114
PP
1425PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1426 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1427
c566dd90
PP
1428PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1429 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1430 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1431 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1432
d6cc7c78 1433PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1434 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1435 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1436
0d0e4455
PP
1437PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1438
3399bb60 1439PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1440
1441PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1442 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1443
0ca0cf52 1444
10906672
PP
1445Exim version 4.76
1446-----------------
1447
1448PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1449
754a0503
PP
1450PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1451 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1452
c0c7b2da
PP
1453PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1454
e97d1f08
PP
1455PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1456
084c1d8c
PP
1457PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1458 Bugzilla 1098.
1459
4e7ee012
PP
1460PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1461 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1462
c8d52a00
PP
1463TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1464 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1465
54e7ce4a
PP
1466PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1467 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1468
5ee6f336
PP
1469PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1470 Bugzilla 1104.
1471
c8d52a00 1472TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1473 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1474
1475TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1476 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1477 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1478 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1479
1480PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1481 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1482
10906672 1483
aa097c4c
NM
1484Exim version 4.75
1485-----------------
1486
4c04137d 1487NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1488 Bugzilla 1073
1489
7f3d9eff
TF
1490TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1491 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1492 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1493
159f52d2
TF
1494TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1495 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1496
0cc9542a
PP
1497PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1498 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1499 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1500
f7274286
PP
1501PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1502 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1503
7b797365
PP
1504PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1505 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1506
caacae52
NM
1507NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1508 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1509
09dcaba9
NM
1510NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1511 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1512
bc19a55b
PP
1513PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1514 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1515
bd4c9759
NM
1516NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1517 Fixes bug 943.
1518
b72aab72
PP
1519PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1520 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1521
2fe76745
PP
1522PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1523 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1524
76aa570c
PP
1525PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1526 SQL string expansion failure details.
1527 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1528
f1e5fef5
PP
1529PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1530 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1531
4d805ee9
PP
1532PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1533 extern declarations in function scope.
1534 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1535
cd59ab18
PP
1536PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1537 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1538 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1539 a kernel bug).
1540
332f5cf3
PP
1541PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1542 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1543
29cfeb94
PP
1544PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1545 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1546
660242ad
PP
1547PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1548 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1549
bc4bc4c5
PP
1550PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1551 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1552
2e64baa9
NM
1553NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1554 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1555 Dennis Davis.
1556
4c04137d 1557PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 1558
6bac1a9a
PP
1559PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1560
552193f0
NM
1561NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1562 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1563
1b587e48
TF
1564TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1565 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1566
aa097c4c 1567
8c07b69f
TF
1568Exim version 4.74
1569-----------------
1570
1571TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1572 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1573
c0ea85ab
TF
1574TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1575 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1576
0761d44e
TF
1577TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1578
0a349494
PP
1579DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1580 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1581 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1582
1583PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1584 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1585 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1586
fea24b2e
PP
1587PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1588 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1589 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1590 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1591
6545de78
PP
1592PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1593 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1594 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1595 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1596
1670ef10
PP
1597PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1598 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1599 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1600 arbitrary files.
1601
c0886197
PP
1602PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1603 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1604
b7487bce
PP
1605PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1606 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1607 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1608 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1609 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1610
8c07b69f 1611
97fd1e48 1612Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1613-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1614
1615PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1616 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1617 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1618
6901c596
PP
1619PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1620 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1621
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1622JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1623
77bb000f
PP
1624PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1625
a29e5231
PP
1626PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1627
ec5a0394 1628PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1629
55c75993
PP
1630PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1631
453a6645 1632PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1633 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1634 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1635 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1636
8544e77a
PP
1637PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1638 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1639 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1640 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1641 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1642
83e029d5
PP
1643PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1644
ed7f7860
PP
1645PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1646
7d9f747b
PP
1647PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1648
4b2241d2
PP
1649PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1650
10385c15
PP
1651PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1652
dbc4b90d
PP
1653PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1654
532be449
PP
1655PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1656
6a8de854 1657PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1658 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1659 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1660
5dc43717
JJ
1661JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1662
1663JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1664 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1665
3346ab01
PP
1666PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1667 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1668
491fab4c
PP
1669PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1670 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1671 Notification from John Horne.
1672
13eb9497
PP
1673PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1674 compatible.
1675
1676PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1677 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1678 it normally works.
1679
7f36d675
DW
1680DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1681 access.
1682
c1d94452
DW
1683DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1684 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1685 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1686
e2f5dc15
DW
1687DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1688 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1689 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1690 configuration file.
1691
cd25e41d
DW
1692DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1693 option (effectively making it always true).
1694
261dc43e
DW
1695DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1696 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1697
fa32850b
DW
1698DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1699 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1700
79d4bc3d
PP
1701PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1702 run-time user, instead of root.
1703
43236f35 1704PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1705 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1706
fb08281f
DW
1707DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1708 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1709 arguments.
3346ab01 1710
74935b98
DW
1711DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1712 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1713 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1714
90b6341f
DW
1715DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1716
57730b52
ML
1717NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1718
66581d1e 1719
465e92cf
JJ
1720Exim version 4.72
1721-----------------
1722
453a6645
PP
1723JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1724 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1725 typos
465e92cf 1726
453a6645
PP
1727JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1728 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1729 (Finput)
edae0343 1730
9bd3e22c
NM
1731NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1732 Patch from Alain Williams
1733
bb576ff7
NM
1734NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1735
5a1a5845
NM
1736NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1737 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1738
981a9fad
NM
1739NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1740 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1741
7fc497ee
NM
1742NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1743
1a41defa
JJ
1744JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1745
a466095c 1746NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1747 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1748
94a6bd0b
NM
1749TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1750
1751TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1752
1753MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1754 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1755 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1756
c1b141a8
NM
1757NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1758 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1759
b26eacf1 1760NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1761 Patch by Simon Arlott
1762
179c5980 1763PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1764 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1765
9bd3e22c 1766
7c6d71af
NM
1767Exim version 4.71
1768-----------------
1769
7d9f747b 1770TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1771
f013fb92
NM
1772NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1773
0eb8eedd
NM
1774NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1775
663ee6d9
NM
1776NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1777
177ebd9b
NM
1778NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1779
7c6d71af 1780
210f147e
NM
1781Exim version 4.70
1782-----------------
1783
cdd3bb85 1784TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1785 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1786
1787TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1788 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1789 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1790
1791TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1792 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1793 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1794
1795TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1796 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1797
210f147e
NM
1798NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1799 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1800 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1801 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1802
deafd5b3
NM
1803NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1804 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1805 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1806
089793a4
TF
1807TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1808
5f16ca82
TF
1809TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1810
dae9d94e 1811NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1812 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1813
7d9f747b 1814NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1815
06864c44
TF
1816TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1817 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1818 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1819 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1820
65a7d8c3 1821NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1822 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1823
23510047 1824TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1825
7d9f747b 1826NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1827
7d8eec3a 1828NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1829 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1830
89dec7b6
TF
1831TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1832 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1833
a99de90c
TF
1834TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1835 that they are available at delivery time.
1836
e2803e40
TF
1837TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1838
7199e1ee
TF
1839TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1840 incoming_port log selectors.
1841
e276e04b
TF
1842TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1843 setting expands to an empty string.
1844
ce552449 1845NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1846 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1847
e765a0f1 1848NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1849 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1850
4f054c63 1851NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1852 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1853
7d9f747b
PP
1854NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1855 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1856
7d9f747b
PP
1857NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1858 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1859
b52bc06e 1860NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1861 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1862
447de4b0
NM
1863NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1864
4c69d561 1865NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1866 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1867
d5c39246 1868NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1869 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1870
0b23848a
TK
1871TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1872
8f3414a1 1873NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1874 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1875
fb6f955d
NM
1876NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1877
1878NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1879
7d9f747b
PP
1880NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1881 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1882
7d9f747b
PP
1883NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1884 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1885
7d9f747b
PP
1886NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1887 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1888
7d9f747b
PP
1889NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1890 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1891
7d9f747b
PP
1892NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1893 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1894
7d9f747b
PP
1895NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1896 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1897
7d9f747b
PP
1898NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1899 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1900
7d9f747b 1901NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1902 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1903
7d9f747b 1904NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1905
7d9f747b
PP
1906NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1907 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1908
7d9f747b 1909NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1910
7d9f747b 1911NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1912
7d9f747b 1913NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1914
7d9f747b 1915NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1916
17792b53 1917NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1918 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1919
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1920NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1921 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1922
91576cec 1923NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1924 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1925
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1926NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1927 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1928
7d9f747b 1929NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1930
7d9f747b 1931NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1932
7d9f747b 1933NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1934
7d9f747b 1935NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1936
deafd5b3 1937
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1938Exim version 4.69
1939-----------------
1940
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1941TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1942 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1943 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1944
1945 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1946 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1947 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1948 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1949 build errors in sieve.c.
1950
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NM
1951NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1952 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1953 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1954
f13cddcb
SC
1955SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1956
7d9f747b 1957NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1958
7d9f747b 1959NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1960
7d9f747b 1961NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
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1962
1963
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1964Exim version 4.68
1965-----------------
1966
1967PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1968
6a3bceb1
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1969PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1970 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1971 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1972 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1973 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1974 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1975 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1976 for iplsearch lookups.
1977
1978 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1979 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1980 previously such lookups could never work.
1981
4c04137d 1982 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
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1983 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1984 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1985
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1986TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1987 version.
1988
0806a9c5
MH
1989MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1990 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1991 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1992 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1993 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1994 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1995
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1996TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1997 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1998
0f2cbd1b
MH
1999MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2000 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2001 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2002 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2003 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2004 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2005
2b85bce7
PH
2006PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2007 local_scan API.
2008
93655c46
PH
2009PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2010
6c512171
PH
2011PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2012 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2013 encrypted.
2014
2015PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2016 by clients under certain conditions.
2017
aa6dc513
PH
2018PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2019 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2020
a96603a0
PH
2021PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2022
8f240103
PH
2023PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2024 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2025
2026PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2027
d677b2f2
PH
2028PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2029
d52120f2
PH
2030PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2031
64f2600a
PH
2032PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2033 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2034
8669f003
PH
2035PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2036
a4dc33a8
PH
2037PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2038 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2039
d6a60c0f
PH
2040PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2041
8f128379
PH
2042PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2043
8932dffe
PH
2044PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2045 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2046 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2047 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2048
ddea74fa 2049PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
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PH
2050 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2051 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2052
ddea74fa 2053PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
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PH
2054 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2055
ddea74fa
PH
2056PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2057
ce9f225c
PH
2058PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2059
19897d52
PH
2060PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2061
bc64a74d
PH
2062PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2063 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2064 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2065
eb4c0de6 2066
b4ed4da0
PH
2067Exim version 4.67
2068-----------------
2069
22ad45c9
MH
2070MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2071 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2072 Jan Srzednicki.
2073
b4ed4da0
PH
2074PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2075 issue a MAIL command.
2076
431b7361
PH
2077PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2078
2079 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2080
2081 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2082 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2083 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2084 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2085 item. This has been fixed.
2086
2087PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2088 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2089
83da1223
PH
2090PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2091 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2092
54fc8428
PH
2093PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2094 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2095 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2096
34c5e8dd
SC
2097SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2098
bbe15da8
PH
2099PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2100 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2101 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2102 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2103 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2104
0e8a9471
MH
2105MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2106 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2107 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2108
f0872424
PH
2109PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2110 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2111 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2112 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2113
b01dd148
PH
2114PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2115
6bf342e1
PH
2116PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2117
273f34d0
PH
2118PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2119 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2120 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2121 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2122 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2123
cf8b11a5
PH
2124PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2125
41c7c167
PH
2126PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2127 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2128 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2129 values).
2130
9c57cbc0
PH
2131PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2132
f3f065bb
PH
2133PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2134
047bdd8c
PH
2135PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2136
0ce9abe6
PH
2137PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2138
0e22dfd1
PH
2139PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2140
4c590bd1
PH
2141PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2142 no_callout_flush is set.
2143
09945f1e
PH
2144PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2145 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2146 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2147 fixed.
2148
c51b8e75
PH
2149PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2150
e28326d8 2151PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2152 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2153 other ACL rejections are.
2154
75b1493f
PH
2155PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2156 with slight modification.
2157
7c5214ec
PH
2158PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2159 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2160
4311097e
PH
2161PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2162 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2163 connection.
2164
29f89cad
PH
2165PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2166 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2167
5e687460
SC
2168SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2169
c3611384
PH
2170PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2171 expansion side effects.
2172
5a11a7b4
PH
2173PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2174 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2175 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2176 be the same.
2177
0e20aff9
MH
2178MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2179 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2180 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2181
ca86f471
PH
2182PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2183 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2184 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2185 were accidentally chopped off.
2186
a14e5636
PH
2187PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2188 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2189 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2190 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2191 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2192 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2193 pipelining has not been advertised.
2194
ec95d1a6
PH
2195PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2196
42855d71
PH
2197PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2198 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2199 This has been fixed.
2200
57c2c631
PH
2201PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2202 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2203 reported on Solaris.
2204
58c01c94
PH
2205PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2206 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2207 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2208 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2209 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2210 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2211 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2212
dee5a20a
PH
2213PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2214 cpus.
2215
d2ee6114
PH
2216PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2217
b2d5182b
PH
2218PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2219
79749a79
PH
2220PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2221 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
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PH
2222 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2223 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2224 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2225 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2226
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PH
2227PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2228 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2229 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2230 host_all_ignored option.
2231
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PH
2232PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2233 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2234 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2235 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2236 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2237 is what is supposed to happen).
2238
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PH
2239PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2240 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2241 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2242 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2243 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2244 uses the Exim user.
2245
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PH
2246PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2247 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2248 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2249 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2250 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2251 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2252 users.
2253
84024b72
PH
2254PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2255
8005d38e
SC
2256SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2257 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2258 (Jez Hancock).
2259 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2260 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2261
3298c6c6
SC
2262SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2263
a43a27c5
PH
2264PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2265
58eb016e 2266PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
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PH
2267 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2268 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2269 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2270 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2271 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2272 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2273 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2274 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2275 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2276 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2277
b43a74ea
PH
2278PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2279 advertised in response to EHLO.
2280
b4ed4da0 2281
5dd1517f
PH
2282Exim version 4.66
2283-----------------
2284
2285PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2286 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2287
2288 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2289 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2290
2291 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2292 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2293 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2294
2295 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2296 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2297 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2298 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2299 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2300
2301
93cfa765
TK
2302Exim version 4.65
2303-----------------
2304
2305TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2306 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2307 versions. (#438)
2308
d6066548
MH
2309MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2310 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2311 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2312
4362ff0d
PH
2313PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2314 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2315 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2316 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2317 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2318 rather than extend the field.
2319
93cfa765 2320
944e9e9c
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2321Exim version 4.64
2322-----------------
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TK
2324TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2325 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2326 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2327 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2328 these files.
2329
2330TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2331 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2332 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2333
2334TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2335 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2336 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2337
2338TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2339 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2340 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2341 in the field name.
2342
2b1c6e3a
PH
2343PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2344 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2345 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2346 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2347 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2348 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2349 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2350 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2351 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2352 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2353 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2354
1f872c80
PH
2355PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2356 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2357
2358PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2359 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2360 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2361 ignores EPIPE as well.
2362
d203e649
PH
2363PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2364 (quoted-printable decoding).
2365
cc2ed8f7 2366PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2367 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2368
ddfcd446
PH
2369PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2370
d45b1de8
PH
2371PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2372
2373PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2374
38a0a95f 2375PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2376 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2377
a2405d83
JJ
2378JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2379 in 4.64-PH/09.
2380
2381JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2382 miscellaneous code fixes
2383
6ea85e9a
PH
2384PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2385 rejections.
2386
26da7e20
PH
2387PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2388 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2389 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2390 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2391 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2392 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2393 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2394 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2395
14aa5a05 2396PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2397 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2398 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2399 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2400 function.
2401 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2402 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2403 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2404 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2405 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2406 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2407 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2408 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2409 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2410
ff75a1f7
PH
2411PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2412 decoding.
2413
e6f6568e
PH
2414PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2415 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2416 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2417 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2418 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2419 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2420 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2421 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2422
d6f6e0dc
PH
2423PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2424 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2425 list.
2426
322050c2
PH
2427PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2428 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2429 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2430 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2431 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2432 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2433 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2434 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2435 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2436 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2437 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2438 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2439 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2440
08955dd3
PH
2441PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2442 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2443 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2444 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2445 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2446 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2447 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2448
1eccaa59
PH
2449PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2450 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2451 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2452 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2453 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2454 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2455 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2456 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2457 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2458 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2459
602e59e5
PH
2460PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2461 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2462 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2463 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2464 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2465
411ef850
PH
2466PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2467 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2468 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2469 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2470 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2471 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2472 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2473
7befa435
PH
2474PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2475 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2476 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2477 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2478 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2479 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2480 been verified.
2481
48da4259 2482PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2483 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2484 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2485 and authorization.)
2486
48da4259
PH
2487PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2488 if any retry times were supplied.
2489
d1d5595c
PH
2490PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2491 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2492 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2493
0ef732d9
PH
2494PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2495
328895cc
PH
2496PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2497
fd700877
PH
2498PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2499 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2500 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2501 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2502 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2503 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2504
8dce1a6f
PH
2505PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2506 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2507
17af4a17
PH
2508PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2509 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2510 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2511
2512PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2513 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2514 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2515 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2516 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2517 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2518 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2519 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2520 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2521
2522 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2523 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2524 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2525 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2526 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2527 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2528 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2529 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2530 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2531
2532 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2533 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2534 hammering the server.
2535
c1114884
PH
2536PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2537 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2538
7a0743eb
PH
2539PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2540
0d85fa3f
PH
2541PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2542 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2543 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2544
1bf43b78
PH
2545PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2546 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2547 one case where this was not true.
2548
520de300
PH
2549PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2550 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2551 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2552 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2553 fails.
2554
48c7f9e2
PH
2555PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2556 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2557 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2558 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 2559 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
2560 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2561 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2562 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2563 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2564 smtp transport.
2565
99ea1c86
PH
2566PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2567 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2568 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2569 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2570
a2042e78
PH
2571PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2572 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2573
4fbcfc2e
PH
2574PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2575 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2576 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2577
aa41d2de
PH
2578PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2579
af561417
PH
2580PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2581
3cc66b45
PH
2582PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2583
194cc0e4
PH
2584PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2585 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2586 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2587 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2588
a401ddaa
PH
2589PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2590 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2591
4e88a19f
PH
2592PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2593 be meaningful with "accept".
2594
d7d7b289
SC
2595SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2596 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2597
2598SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2599 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2600 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2601
2602SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2603 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2604 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2605 there is data to show.
2606 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2607
2608SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2609 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2610 as well as the number of messages.
2611
2612SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2613 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2614 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2615
2616SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2617 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2618 have a flag are now skipped.
2619
2620SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2621 Added the -emptyok flag.
2622
2623SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2624 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2625
0ea2a468
JJ
2626JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2627 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 2628 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
2629
2630JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2631 match 4.64-PH/13
2632
2633JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2634 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2635
2636JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2637
2638JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2639 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2640
8a10f5a4
PH
2641PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2642
30e18802
PH
2643PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2644 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2645 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2646 contravention of the specifications.
2647
55728a4f
PH
2648PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2649 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2650 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2651
d7837193
PH
2652PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2653 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2654 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2655
87054a31
PH
2656PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2657
ea2c01d2
MH
2658MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2659 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2660 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2661 some point in the past.
2662
e4fa6968
PH
2663PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2664 transport during callout processing was broken.
2665
56f5d9bd
PH
2666PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2667 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2668
922e1c28
PH
2669PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2670 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2671
21eb6e72
PH
2672PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2673 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2674
a0540757
PH
2675PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2676
944e9e9c 2677
478be7b0
SC
2678Exim version 4.63
2679-----------------
2680
2681SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2682 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2683
2684SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2685 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2686 there is data to show.
2687 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2688
2689SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2690 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2691
2b965a65
TF
2692TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2693 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2694
45b91596
PH
2695TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2696 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2697
c59f5781
TF
2698TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2699 submissions from trusted users.
2700
90fc3069
TF
2701TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2702 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2703
6083aca0
TF
2704TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2705 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2706 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2707 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2708 there is now a framework to start from.
2709
765b530f
PH
2710PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2711 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2712 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2713
4e167a8c
PH
2714PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2715
4608d683
PH
2716PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2717
b8dc3e4a
PH
2718PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2719
5418e93b
PH
2720PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2721 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2722 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2723
b4a9bda2
PH
2724PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2725 libradius.
2726
45b91596
PH
2727PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2728 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2729 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2730
5547e2c5
PH
2731PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2732 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2733 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2734 its arguments.
2735
dbcef0ea
PH
2736PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2737 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2738 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2739 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2740 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2741
25257489
PH
2742PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2743 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2744
c816d124
PH
2745PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2746
a9ccd69a
PH
2747PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2748 operations in malware.c.
2749
75fa1910
PH
2750PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2751 signatures.
2752
a7d7aa58
PH
2753PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2754 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2755 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2756 all.
2757
42119b09
PH
2758PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2759 statements to "add_header".
2760
41609df5
PH
2761PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2762 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2763
a5bd321b
PH
2764PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2765 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2766 latter.
2767
e85a7ad5 2768PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2769 so that it is now:
2770
e85a7ad5
PH
2771 ${if or { \
2772 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2773 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2774 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2775 }{no}{yes}}
2776
e85a7ad5
PH
2777 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2778 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2779
d8fe1c03
PH
2780PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2781 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2782
16282d2b
PH
2783PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2784 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2785 any possible encoding problems.
2786
35d40a98
PH
2787PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2788 but not after initializing Perl.
2789
034d99ab
PH
2790PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2791 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2792 apparently, which is not desirable.
2793
6ec97b1b
PH
2794PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2795 queries.
2796
e22ca4ac
JJ
2797JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2798 --not options
2799
2800JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2801
33d73e3b
PH
2802PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2803 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2804 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2805 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2806
9ecb03f3
PH
2807PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2808 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2809 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2810
084efe8d
PH
2811PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2812 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2813 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2814 0.12.
2815
366fc9f0
PH
2816PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2817 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2818 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2819 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2820 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2821
c59f5781 2822
c887c79e
TF
2823Exim version 4.62
2824-----------------
2825
2826TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2827 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2828
1cce3af8
PH
2829PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2830 patch).
2831
afb3eaaf
PH
2832PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2833 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2834 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2835 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2836 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2837 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2838 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2839 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2840 451 error is used.
2841
e173618b
PH
2842PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2843
dd16e114
PH
2844PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2845 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2846 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2847
f7fd3850
PH
2848PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2849 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2850 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2851 odd errors.
2852
d87df92c
PH
2853PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2854 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2855
7e9f683d
PH
2856PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2857 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2858 option (which defaults to 0600).
2859
bfad5236
PH
2860PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2861
01c490df
PH
2862PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2863 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2864 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2865 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2866 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2867 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2868 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2869
d6629cdc
PH
2870PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2871
1cce3af8 2872
214e2000
PH
2873Exim version 4.61
2874-----------------
2875
2876PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2877 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2878 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2879 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2880 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2881 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2882 addresses as local.
2883
f9daeae0
PH
2884PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2885 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2886
7e66e54d
PH
2887PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2888
c8ea1597
PH
2889PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2890 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2891 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2892 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2893 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2894 grumble.
2895
911f6fde
PH
2896PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2897 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2898
47ca6d6c
PH
2899PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2900 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2901 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2902 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2903 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2904
ed0e9820
PH
2905PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2906 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2907 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2908 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2909
eff37e47
PH
2910PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2911 be the same on different OS.
2912
1921d2ea
PH
2913PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2914 testing.
2915
b3f69ca8
JJ
2916JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2917 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2918
2919JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2920 in 4.61-PH/06
2921
424a1c63
PH
2922PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2923 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2924 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2925 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2926 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2927 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2928 bounce message.
2929
7a100415
PH
2930PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2931 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2932 when Exim was called.
2933
19b9dc85
PH
2934PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2935 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2936
309bd837
PH
2937PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2938 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2939 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2940 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2941
59e82a2a
PH
2942PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2943 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2944 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2945 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2946 changes:
2947
2948 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2949 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 2950 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
2951
2952 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2953 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2954 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2955
9edc04ce
PH
2956PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2957 feature).
2958
1349e1e5
PH
2959PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2960 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2961 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2962 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2963 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2964 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2965 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2966 values from the SRV records were lost.
2967
ea49d0e1
PH
2968PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2969 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2970 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2971
064a94c9
PH
2972PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2973 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2974 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2975
727071f8
PH
2976PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2977 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2978 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2979 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2980 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2981 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2982 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2983 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2984 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2985 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2986
f78eb7c6
PH
2987PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2988 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2989 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2990
21c28500
PH
2991PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2992 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2993
2994PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2995 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2996 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2997 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2998 is given.
2999
1688f43b
PH
3000PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3001 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3002 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3003
3004PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3005 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3006 PH/23 above applies.
3007
9675b384
PH
3008PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3009 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3010 (for which there is an explicit test).
3011
6a3f1455
PH
3012PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3013
dac79d3e
PH
3014PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3015 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3016 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3017 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3018 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3019
5977a0b3
PH
3020PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3021 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3022 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3023 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3024
c91535f3
PH
3025PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3026 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3027 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3028
0d46a8c8
PH
3029PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3030
278c6e6c
PH
3031PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3032
2cbb4081
PH
3033PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3034 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3035 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3036
3eef829e
PH
3037PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3038 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3039 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3040 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3041 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3042
1ab95fa6
PH
3043PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3044 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3045 the message gets confusing).
3046
230205fc
PH
3047PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3048 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3049 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3050 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3051
75e0e026
PH
3052PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3053 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3054 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3055 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3056 same order.
3057
3058PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3059 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3060 the different processes.
3061
145396a6
PH
3062PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3063
3cd34f13
PH
3064PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3065
11121d3d
JJ
3066JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3067 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3068
3069JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3070 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3071
3072JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3073 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3074 messages matching specified criteria.
3075
8def5aaf
PH
3076PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3077
929ba01c
PH
3078PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3079 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3080
2632889e
PH
3081PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3082 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3083 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3084 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3085 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3086 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3087 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3088 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3089 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3090 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3091
944a9c55
PH
3092PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3093 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3094 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3095
4a23603b
PH
3096PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3097
4730f942
PH
3098PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3099 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3100 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3101 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3102 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3103 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3104 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3105 the variable.
3106
30dba1e6
PH
3107PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3108 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3109
382afc6b
PH
3110PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3111
a86229cf
PH
3112PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3113
50c99ba6
PH
3114PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3115
d35e429d
PH
3116PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3117 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3118 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3119 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3120 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3121 size of the count of files.
3122
f90d018c
PH
3123PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3124
75def545
PH
3125PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3126 used in LMTP mode:
3127
3128 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3129 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3130 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3131 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3132
3133 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3134 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3135 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3136
3137PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3138 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3139 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3140 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3141 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3142
c46782ef
PH
3143PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3144 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3145
71fafd95
PH
3146PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3147 will now be deprecated.
3148
2c5db4fd
PH
3149PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3150
9cf6b11a
JJ
3151JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3152 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3153 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3154
3155JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3156 with very large, slow to parse queues
3157
3158JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3159
3160JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3161
898d150f
PH
3162PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3163 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3164 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3165 SMTP output lines.
3166
46218253
PH
3167PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3168 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3169 Sieve code now uses this.
3170
e97957bc
PH
3171PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3172 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3173
81e509d7
PH
3174PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3175 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3176
3d240ff7
PH
3177PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3178
b37c4101
PH
3179PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3180 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3181 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3182 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3183 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3184
79378e0f
PH
3185PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3186 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3187 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3188 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3189
e49c7bb4
PH
3190PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3191
d114ec46
PH
3192PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3193
f3d7df6c
PH
3194PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3195 is preferred over IPv4.
3196
715ab376
PH
3197PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3198 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3199 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3200 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3201 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3202 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3203 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3204
6b31b150
PH
3205PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3206 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3207 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3208
3209PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3210
d515a917
PH
3211PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3212 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3213 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3214 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3215 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3216 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3217 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3218 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3219 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3220 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3221 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3222
9b8fadde
PH
3223PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3224 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3225 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3226
214e2000 3227
5de37277
PH
3228Exim version 4.60
3229-----------------
3230
cc38ddbf
PH
3231PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3232
3233 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3234 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3235
3236 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3237 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3238 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3239
72fdd6ae
PH
3240PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3241
3242 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3243 not a single digit.
3244
3245 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3246 string.
3247
3248 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3249 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3250 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3251 silly things.
3252
3253 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3254 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3255
3256 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3257 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3258
cb741023
PH
3259PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3260 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3261 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3262
f174f16e
PH
3263PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3264 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3265
c25242d7
PH
3266PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3267 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3268
3269 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3270
3271 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3272 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3273 this:
3274
3275 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3276
82c19f95
PH
3277PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3278 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3279 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3280 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3281 identical. For example:
3282
3283 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3284
3285 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3286 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3287 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3288
d7ffbc12
PH
3289PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3290 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3291 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3292 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3293
9f526266
PH
3294PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3295 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3296 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3297 message.
3298
87fcc8b9
PH
3299PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3300
3301 o fixes some comments
3302 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3303 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3304 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3305 and documents the missing references header update
3306
3307 and most important:
3308
3309 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3310 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3311 result)
3312
456682f5
PH
3313PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3314 Electronic Mail") by including:
3315
3316 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3317
3318 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3319 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3320 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3321 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3322 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3323
3324 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3325
3326 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3327
3328 The auto-replied keyword:
3329
3330 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3331 message by an automatic process,
3332
3333 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3334
3335 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3336 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3337
3338 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3339 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3340 other messages.
3341
3e46c1aa
PH
3342PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3343 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3344
49826d12
PH
3345PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3346
eba0c039
PH
3347PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3348 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3349 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3350
a0d6ba8a
PH
3351PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3352 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3353 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3354
f0917727
PH
3355PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3356 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3357 and treats the condition as false.
3358
096fee00
PH
3359PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3360
024bd3c2
PH
3361PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3362 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3363 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3364 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3365 not changing the active code.
3366
3367 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3368 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3369
3370 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3371 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3372
df199fec
PH
3373PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3374 (Bugzilla #53).
3375
d27f1df3
PH
3376PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3377 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3378 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3379 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3380 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3381 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3382 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3383 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3384 the text comparison.
3385
96776534
PH
3386PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3387 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3388 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3389 The same fix has been applied.
3390
5de37277 3391
9a799bc0
PH
3392Exim version 4.54
3393-----------------
3394
3395PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3396 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3397 It now does.
3398
99a4b039
PH
3399PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3400 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3401
3402PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3403
4b233853
PH
3404PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3405 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3406 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3407 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3408 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3409
8857ccfd
PH
3410TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3411 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3412 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3413 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3414 or /domain=).
3415
433a2980
PH
3416PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3417 testing suite.
3418
3e46c1aa 3419
9a799bc0 3420
e3a311ba
TK
3421Exim version 4.53
3422-----------------
3423
3424TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3425 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3426
13b685f9
PH
3427PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3428
395ff96d
PH
3429PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3430
5b68f6e4
PH
3431PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3432 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3433 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3434
1ab52c69
PH
3435PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3436 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3437 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3438
b07e6aa3
PH
3439PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3440 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3441 operating systems.
3442
254e032f
PH
3443PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3444 ${stat: expansion item.
3445
3af76a81
PH
3446PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3447 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3448
2548ba04
PH
3449PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3450 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3451 file for comments.
3452
b6c6011d
PH
3453PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3454
cf39cf57
PH
3455PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3456 setting.
3457
f1513293
PH
3458PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3459 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3460
727549a4
PH
3461TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3462
af46795e
PH
3463PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3464 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3465 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3466 the end of the subprocess.
3467
d7b47fd0
PH
3468PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3469 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3470 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3471 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3472 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3473
ee744174
JJ
3474JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3475
b582ab87
PH
3476TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3477
41a13e0a
PH
3478PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3479 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3480
f625cc5a
PH
3481PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3482
3483PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3484
21f7af35
PH
3485PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3486 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3487 HP-UX compiler.
3488
31480e42
PH
3489PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3490
2d280592
PH
3491PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3492 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3493 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3494
7cd1141b
PH
3495PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3496 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3497
3498PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3499 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3500
750af86e
PH
3501PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3502 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3503
3504 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3505 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3506
3507 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3508 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3509 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3510 contributed by a Radius user.
3511
3512PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3513 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3514
4304270b
TK
3515TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3516 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3517
750af86e
PH
3518PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3519 available.
3520
64ffc24f
PH
3521PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3522 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3523 received.
3524
5dd9625b
PH
3525PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3526 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3527 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3528 header lines when this was not necessary.
3529
5591031b
PH
3530PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3531
ba18e66a
PH
3532PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3533 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3534 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3535 exists".
3536
9cec981f
PH
3537PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3538 -bV or -d is used.
3539
aa2b5c79
PH
3540PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3541 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3542 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3543 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3544
48a53b7f
PH
3545PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3546
1c59d63b
PH
3547PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3548
671012da
TK
3549TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3550
1509d3a8
PH
3551PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3552
3553PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3554 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3555 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3556 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3557 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3558 settings.
3559
3560PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3561
2fe1a124
PH
3562PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3563 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3564 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3565 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3566 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3567 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3568 which is clearly wrong.
3569
8800895a
PH
3570PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3571
ccfdb010
PH
3572PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3573 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3574 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3575 subsequently added.
3576
1130bfb0
PH
3577PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3578 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3579
ebcb507f
PH
3580PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3581
c35e155c
PH
3582PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3583 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3584
95d1f782
PH
3585PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3586 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3587
fd6de02e
PH
3588PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3589 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3590
58de37c5
PH
3591PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3592 recipients, not senders.
3593
261cf466
TF
3594TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3595 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3596
3ee512ff
PH
3597PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3598
e08c430f
PH
3599PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3600
bef5a11f
PH
3601PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3602 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3603 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3604 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3605
7546de58
TF
3606TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3607
e5d5a95f
TF
3608TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3609 clock is set back in time.
3610
2e88a017
TF
3611TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3612 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3613
a5f65aa4
TF
3614TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3615 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3616
e7726cbf
PH
3617PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3618 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3619 (see PH/47 above).
3620
a7fdad5b
TF
3621TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3622 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3623 header rewrites.
3624
6af56900
PH
3625PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3626 type ("H").
3627
0925ede6
PH
3628PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3629
66afa403
TF
3630TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3631 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3632 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3633
0154e85a
TF
3634TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3635 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3636 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3637 helo verification defer as a failure.
3638
16f12c76
PH
3639PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3640 actual error message.
3641
bbe902f0 3642
e5a9dba6
PH
3643Exim version 4.52
3644-----------------
3645
3646TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3647
22c3b60b
PH
3648PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3649 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3650 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3651 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3652
06a9b4b5
PH
3653TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3654
c1ac6996
PH
3655PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3656 can still be requested.
3657
9c7a242c
PH
3658PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3659 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3660 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3661 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3662
87ba3f5f
PH
3663TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3664 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3665 circumstances, but probably never did.
3666
3667PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3668 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3669 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3670 in the header line.
3671
29aba418
TF
3672TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3673
fe0dab11
TF
3674TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3675 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3676
11d337a4
TK
3677TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3678
3679TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3680
415c8f3b
PH
3681PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3682 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3683 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 3684 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
3685 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3686 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3687
958541e9
PH
3688PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3689 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3690 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3691 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3692 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3693 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3694
c206415f
TK
3695TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3696 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3697
2a4be8f9
PH
3698PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3699 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3700
1cba11c5
SC
3701SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3702 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3703
4c04137d 3704SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
3705
3706SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3707
3708SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3709
3710SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3711
3712SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3713
3714SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3715
1005d00e
TK
3716TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3717
3718TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3719 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3720 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3721
3722TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3723 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3724 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3725 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3726
9b4768fa
PH
3727PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3728 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3729 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3730
3731PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3732 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3733 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3734 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3735
0d7eb84a
PH
3736PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3737 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3738 to be made).
3739
3740PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3741 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3742 should work with maildirs and everything.
3743
40727bee
TK
3744TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3745 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3746
554d2369
TF
3747TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3748 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3749
1f922db1
PH
3750PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3751 function for BDB 4.3.
3752
ef213c3b
PH
3753PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3754
8ac170f3
PH
3755PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3756 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3757 involved.
3758
b1c749bb
PH
3759PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3760 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3761 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3762 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3763 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3764 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3765
4aac9b49
PH
3766PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3767 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3768 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3769 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3770 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3771 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3772 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3773 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3774
294520c8
TK
3775TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3776 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3777 details.
3778
5bd022fe
PH
3779PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3780 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3781
90e9ce59
PH
3782PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3783 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3784 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3785 test. It is now used for both.
3786
5ea81592
PH
3787PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3788 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3789 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3790 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3791 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3792 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3793
c6c2dc1d
PH
3794PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3795 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3796 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3797 string_vformat().
3798
fffffe4c
PH
3799PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3800 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3801 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3802
9a26b6b2
PH
3803PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3804 experimental DomainKeys support:
3805
3806 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3807 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3808 the control was given.
3809
3810 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3811
4aee0225
PH
3812PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3813
32d668a5
PH
3814PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3815
8187c3f3
PH
3816PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3817 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3818 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3819 db.h files).
3820
ff790e47 3821PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3822 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3823 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3824 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3825 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3826 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3827 course.
ff790e47 3828
5417f6d1
PH
3829PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3830 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3831 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3832 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3833 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3834 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3835
59cf8544
PH
3836PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3837 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3838 do -d+all out of habit.
3839
e7ad8a65
PH
3840PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3841 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3842 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3843
ade42478
PH
3844PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3845 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3846 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3847 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3848 record types that Exim uses.
3849
182ad5cf
PH
3850PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3851 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3852 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3853 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3854 non-existent file that was broken.
3855
b0d9fc80
TK
3856TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3857 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3858
3859TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3860 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3861 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3862
3863TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3864
47c7a64a
PH
3865PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3866 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3867 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3868 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3869 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3870 same time.
3871
a388bce4
SC
3872SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3873 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3874 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3875 at a slight CPU cost.
3876
3877SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3878 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3879
3880SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3881 by Marc Sherman.
3882
0793e4ed
SC
3883SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3884
c58b88df
PH
3885PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3886 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3887
e7ad8a65 3888
7982096b
PH
3889Exim version 4.51
3890-----------------
3891
1a46a8c5
PH
3892TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3893 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3894
2f079f46 3895TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3896
3897TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3898
3899PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3900 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3901
3902PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3903 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3904 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3905 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3906 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3907 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3908 file.
3909
3910PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3911 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3912 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3913 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3914 these two options.
3915
3916PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3917 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3918 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3919 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3920 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3921 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3922 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3923 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3924
3925PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3926 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3927
3928PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3929 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3930 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3931 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3932 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3933 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3934
3935PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3936 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3937 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3938 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3939
3940PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3941 Finch).
3942
3943PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3944 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3945
49c2d5ea
PH
3946PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3947 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3948 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3949 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3950 message.
49c2d5ea 3951
bf759a8b
PH
3952PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3953
83364d30
PH
3954PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3955 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3956
7999bbd7
PH
3957PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3958 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3959 to what was transported.)
3960
7dbf77c9
PH
3961TF/01 Added $received_time.
3962
74e0617f
PH
3963PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3964 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3965 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3966 spamd_address settings.
3967
2f079f46
PH
3968PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3969 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3970 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3971 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3972 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3973
8c841523
PH
3974PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3975
7766a4f0
PH
3976PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3977 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3978 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3979 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3980 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3981
8b417f2c
PH
3982PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3983 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3984
901f42cb
PH
3985PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3986 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3987 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3988 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3989 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3990 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3991 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3992 for failure.
3993
f9b9210e
PH
3994PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3995 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3996 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3997 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3998 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3999 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4000 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4001 "input=".
4002
54cdb463
PH
4003PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4004
cf00dad6
PH
4005PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4006 driver and ACL definitions.
4007
acb1b346
PH
4008PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4009 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4010
c5ddb310
PH
4011PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4012 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4013 understands it better than I do:
4014
4015 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4016 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4017
4018 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4019 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4020 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4021 => three warnings about OTP not working
4022 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4023
4024 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4025 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4026 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4027 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4028 for each call.)
4029 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4030 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4031
4032 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4033 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4034 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4035
31619da6
PH
4036PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4037 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4038 specified.
4039
bebaf0fc
PH
4040PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4041 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4042 "Linux".
4043
475fe28a
PH
4044PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4045 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4046 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4047
4048 warn !verify = sender
4049 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4050
4051 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4052 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4053
7e8bec7a
PH
4054PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4055
4056 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4057 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4058
4059 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4060 nomenclature these days.)
4061
e4a89c47
PH
4062PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4063 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4064
5ca2a9a1
PH
4065PH/30 In these circumstances:
4066 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4067 . First host does not offer TLS;
4068 . First host accepts first address;
4069 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4070 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4071 . Second host accepts second address.
4072 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4073 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4074 address.
7e8bec7a 4075
c688b954
PH
4076PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4077 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4078 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4079 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4080 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4081
fed77020
PH
4082PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4083 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4084
7fe1560f
PH
4085PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4086 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4087
ebb6e6d5
PH
4088PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4089 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4090 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4091
9c4e8f60
PH
4092PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4093 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4094 overlooked.
4095
4096PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4097
d7174846
PH
4098PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4099 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4100 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4101 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4102 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4103 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4104 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4105
4106 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4107 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4108 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4109 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4110 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4111
4112 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4113 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4114 routed further.
4115
cfe75fc3
PH
4116PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4117 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4118 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4119 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4120 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4121 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4122
be22d70e
PH
4123PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4124
0612b098
PH
4125PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4126 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4127 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4128 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4129 printable escape sequences.
4130
2e0c1448
PH
4131PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4132 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4133 body only.
4134
447d236c
PH
4135PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4136 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4137 are as follows:
4138
4139 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4140 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4141 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4142 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4143 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4144
4145 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4146 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4147 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4148
d20976dc
PH
4149PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4150
f656d135
PH
4151PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4152 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4153 play with."
4154
2e2a30b4
PH
4155PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4156 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4157 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4158 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4159 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4160 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4161 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4162 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4163 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4164 the log output.
4165
9176e9f0
PH
4166PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4167 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4168 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4169 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4170 "make".
4171
7982096b 4172
bbe902f0
PH
4173A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4174----------------------------------------
4175
4176Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4177changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4178needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4179in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4180that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4181release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4182from 4.43.
4183
4184I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
41854.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4186those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4187historical information.
4188
4189
f7b63901 4190Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4191-----------------
4192
5fe762f6
PH
4193 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4194
139059f6 4195 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4196 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4197
7086e875
PH
4198 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4199 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4200 place.
4201
35af9f61
PH
4202 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4203 filter fails to execute.
4204
b668c215
PH
4205 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4206 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4207 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4208 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4209 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4210
a494b1e1
PH
4211 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4212
4213 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4214 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4215 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4216 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4217
c5fcb476
PH
4218 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4219 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4220 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4221 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4222 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4223
69358f02
PH
4224 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4225
5be20824
PH
422610. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4227
eb2c0248
PH
422811. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4229 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4230 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4231 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4232
2a3eea10
PH
423312. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4234 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4235 sender verification.
4236
423713. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4238 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4239
23c7ff99
PH
424014. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4241
4deaf07d
PH
424215. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4243 connection timeout.
4244
926e1192
PH
424516. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4246 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4247
650edc6f
PH
424817. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4249 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4250
2c7db3f5
PH
425118. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4252 information about exactly what failed.
4253
3d235903
PH
425419. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4255
7c7ad977
PH
425620. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4257 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4258 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4259
981756db
PH
426021. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4261 It is now set to "smtps".
4262
d4eb88df
PH
426322. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4264 ignore_target_hosts.
4265
426623. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4267 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4268 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4269 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4270 "[x.x.x.x]".
4271
7d468ab8
PH
427224. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4273 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4274 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4275
427625. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4277 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4278 wake it up if nothing else does.
4279
62c0818f
PH
428026. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4281 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4282 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4283 end up negative.
4284
26034054
PH
428527. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4286 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4287
af66f652
PH
428828. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4289
90af77f4
PH
429029. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4291 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4292 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4293 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4294 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4295 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4296 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4297 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4298
d8ef3577
PH
429930. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4300 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4301 than one IP address.
4302
5cb8cbc6
PH
430331. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4304 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4305 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4306 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4307
14702f5b
PH
430832. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4309 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4310 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4311 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4312 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4313 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4314
063b1e99
PH
431533. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4316 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4317 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4318 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4319
652e1b65
PH
432034. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4321 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4322 respected.
4323
6f0c9a4f
PH
432435. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4325 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4326 $sender_host_address.
4327
33397d19
PH
432836. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4329 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4330 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4331 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4332 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4333 very small.
4334
7bb56e1f
PH
433537. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4336
4337 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4338 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4339
ea3bc19b
PH
4340 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4341 just the host names, not the priorities.
4342
4343 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4344 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4345 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4346
ea3bc19b 4347 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4348 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4349
0bcb2a0e
PH
435038. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4351 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4352 domain.
4353
2ac0e484
PH
435439. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4355
4e1fde53
PH
435640. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4357 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4358
de365ded
PH
435941. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4360 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4361 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4362
f05da2e8
PH
436342. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4364
d6453af2
PH
436543. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4366
f7b63901
PH
436744. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4368
436945. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4370 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4371 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4372 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4373 because the tests only now provoked it.
4374
a444213a
PH
437546. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4376 (this can affect the format of dates).
4377
0ec020ea
PH
437847. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4379 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4380 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4381 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4382
b1206957
PH
438348. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4384
438549. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4386 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4387 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4388 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4389
26dd5a95
PH
439050. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4391 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4392 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4393
343b2385
PH
439451. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4395 autoreply.
4396
1c5466b9
PH
439752. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4398 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4399 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4400 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4401 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4402 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4403 is going on).
4404
55ee9ee3
PH
440553. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4406 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4407 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4408 the line.
4409
d38f8232
PH
441054. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4411 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4412 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4413
4414 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4415 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4416 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4417 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4418 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4419 so I produce this patch..."
4420
3295e65b
PH
4421 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4422 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4423 is not defined.
4424
7102e136
PH
442555. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4426 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4427 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4428 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4429 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4430
3ca0ba97
PH
443156. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4432
c2bcbe20
PH
443357. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4434 long debug lines gets shown.
4435
18ce445d
PH
443658. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4437 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4438
1f5b4c3d
PH
443959. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4440
4441 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4442 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4443 of $primary_hostname.
4444
b975ba52
PH
444560. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4446 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4447 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4448 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4449 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4450 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4451 by change 4.50/55 above.
4452
4453 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4454 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4455 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4456 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4457 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4458 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4459 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4460
446161. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4462 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4463 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4464 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4465
17ffcae7
PH
446662. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4467 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4468
d95f9fdb
PH
446963. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4470 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4471 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4472 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4473 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4474
86b8287f
PH
447564. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4476 This has been fixed.
4477
60dc5e56
PH
447865. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4479 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4480 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4481 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4482 the caching.)
4483
533244af
PH
448466. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4485
a5a28604
PH
448667. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4487 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4488 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4489 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4490
7e634d24
PH
449168. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4492 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4493
3e11c26b
PH
449469. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4495 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4496 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4497
6729cf78
PH
449870. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4499 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4500 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4501 message there.
4502
00f00ca5
PH
450371. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4504 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4505 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4506
c9bdd01c
PH
450772. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4508 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4509 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4510 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4511
d43194df
PH
451273. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4513 during host lookups.
4514
fe5b5d0b
PH
451574. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4516 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4517
4518 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4519
76a2d7ba
PH
452075. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4521 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4522 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4523 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4524 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4525 background.
4526
452776. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4528 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4529
04f7d5b9
PH
453077. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4531 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4532 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4533
bc60667e
PH
453478. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4535
bb6e88ff
PH
453679. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4537 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4538 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4539 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4540 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4541 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4542 process earlier.
4543
1e70f85b
PH
454480. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4545 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4546 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4547 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4548 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4549
455081. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4551 tables).
4552
4e01f9d6
PH
455382. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4554
1ee1cef2
PH
455583. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4556 "vacation" handling.
4557
6e2b4ccc
PH
455884. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4559 OS variants using glibc.
4560
8e669ac1
PH
456185. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4562
495ae4b0 4563
bbe902f0
PH
4564----------------------------------------------------
4565See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4566----------------------------------------------------
4567
4568
4569Exim version 4.44
4570-----------------
4571
4572 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4573 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4574 transport
4575
4576 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4577 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4578 place.
4579
4580 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4581 filter fails to execute.
4582
4583 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4584 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4585 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4586 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4587 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4588
4589 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4590 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4591 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4592 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4593
4594 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4595 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4596 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4597 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4598 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4599
4600 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4601
4602 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4603 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4604 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4605 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4606
4607 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4608 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4609 sender verification.
4610
461110. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4612 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4613
461411. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4615 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4616
461712. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4618 ignore_target_hosts.
4619
462013. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4621 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4622 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4623 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4624 "[x.x.x.x]".
4625
462614. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4627 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4628 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4629
463015. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4631 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4632 wake it up if nothing else does.
4633
463416. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4635 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4636 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4637 end up negative.
4638
463917. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4640 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4641
ea3a6f44 464218. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4643
464419. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4645 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4646 empty pattern.
4647
464820. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4649 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4650 one IP address.
4651
ea3a6f44
NM
465221. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4653 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4654 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4655 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4656 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4657 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4658
ea3a6f44
NM
465922. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4660 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4661 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4662
466323. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4664 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4665 $sender_host_address.
4666
466724. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4668
ea3a6f44
NM
466925. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4670 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4671 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4672
467326. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4674 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4675
ea3a6f44
NM
467627. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4677 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4678
ea3a6f44
NM
467928. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4680 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4681 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4682 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4683
468429. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4685 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4686 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4687
ea3a6f44
NM
468830. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4689 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4690 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4691 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4692
ea3a6f44
NM
469331. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4694 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4695 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4696
ea3a6f44
NM
469731. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4698 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4699
ea3a6f44
NM
470032. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4701 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4702 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4703 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4704 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4705 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4706 is going on).
bbe902f0 4707
ea3a6f44
NM
470833. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4709 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4710 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4711 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4712 CAN-2005-0021
4713
ea3a6f44
NM
471434. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4715 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4716 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4717 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4718 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4719 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4720 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4721
4722 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4723 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4724 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4725 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4726 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4727 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4728 CAN-2005-0021
4729
ea3a6f44
NM
473035. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4731 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4732 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4733 CAN-2005-0022
4734
ea3a6f44
NM
473536. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4736 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4737 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4738 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4739 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4740
ea3a6f44
NM
474137. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4742 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4743 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4744 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4745 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4746
ea3a6f44
NM
474738. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4748 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4749 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4750 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4751 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4752
4753
495ae4b0
PH
4754Exim version 4.43
4755-----------------
4756
4757 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4758 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4759 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4760 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4761 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4762 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4763 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4764
4765 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4766 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4767 the delivery.
4768
4769 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4770
4771 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4772
4773 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4774 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4775 to local_scan().
4776
4777 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4778 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4779 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4780 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4781 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4782
4783 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4784 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4785
4786 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4787
4788 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4789
479010. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4791 header_sender only.
4792
479311. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4794 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4795
479612. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4797 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4798 affecting debugging statements).
4799
480013. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4801
480214. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4803 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4804 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4805 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4806 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4807 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4808 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4809 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4810 after the received time, and all would be well.
4811
481215. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4813 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4814 condition in an expansion string.
4815
481616. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4817
481817. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4819 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4820 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4821 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4822 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4823 job under whatever limits there are.
4824
482518. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4826
482719. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4828 space).
4829
483020. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4831 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4832 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4833 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4834 return path is set.
4835
483621. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4837 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4838 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4839 binary data in such strings.
4840
484122. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4842
484323. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4844 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4845 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4846 failure, which is pointless.
4847
484824. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4849
485025. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4851
485226. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4853 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4854 Sender: header lines.
4855
485627. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4857 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4858 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4859
486028. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4861 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4862 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4863 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4864 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4865 happens.
4866
486729. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4868 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4869 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4870 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4871 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4872
487330. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4874 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4875 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4876 1024.
4877
487831. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4879 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4880
488132. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4882 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4883
488433. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4885
488632. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4887
488833. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4889
489034. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4891 syntax error.
4892
489335. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4894
489536. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4896
489737. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4898 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4899 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4900 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4901
490238. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4903 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4904
4905
4906Exim version 4.42
4907-----------------
4908
4909 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4910 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4911 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4912 it was not quoted.
4913 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4914 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4915 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4916 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4917 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4918 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4919
4920 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4921 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4922 verification failure".
4923
4924 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4925 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4926 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4927 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4928
4929 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4930 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4931 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4932 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4933 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4934 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4935 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4936 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4937 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4938 treated as a timeout.
4939
4940 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4941 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4942 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4943 not set for Exim filters).
4944
4945 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4946 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4947 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4948
4949 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4950
4951 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4952 try to make them clearer.
4953
4954 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4955 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4956
4957 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4958
4959 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4960
496110. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4962 only the Cygwin environment.
4963
496411. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4965 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4966 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4967 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4968 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4969
497012. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4971 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4972 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4973 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4974 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4975 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4976 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4977
497813. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4979 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4980
498114. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4982
4983 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4984 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4985 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4986
4987 To: susanne@some.where
4988
4989 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4990 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4991 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4992 of addresses in From: header lines).
4993
4994 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4995 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4996 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4997
4998 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4999 treated as non-personal.
5000
5001 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5002 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5003
500415. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5005
500616. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5007
500817. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5009 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5010 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5011
501218. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5013 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5014
501519. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5016 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5017 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5018 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5019 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5020 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5021
502220. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5023 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5024 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5025 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5026 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5027 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5028 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5029 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5030
5031 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5032
503321. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5034 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5035
503622. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5037 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5038 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5039
504023. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5041 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5042
504324. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5044 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5045 rather than long int.
5046
504725. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5048
504926. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5050
5051
5052Exim version 4.41
5053-----------------
5054
5055 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5056 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5057 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5058 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5059 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5060 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5061
5062
5063Exim version 4.40
5064-----------------
5065
5066 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5067 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5068
5069 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5070 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5071 socklen_t is defined.
5072
5073 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5074 always exist.
5075
5076 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5077 configured.
5078
5079 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5080 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5081 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5082 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5083 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5084
5085 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5086 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5087 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5088 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5089
5090 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5091 of flapping under certain conditions.
5092
5093 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5094 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5095 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5096
5097 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5098
509910. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5100
510111. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5102 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5103 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5104 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5105
510612. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5107 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5108 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5109 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5110 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5111 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5112 preserved with the message after it was received.
5113
511413. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5115 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5116 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5117 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5118 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5119 test suite worked just fine.
5120
512114. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5122 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5123 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5124
512515. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5126 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5127 string.
5128
512916. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5130 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5131 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5132 does not fully solve it.
5133
513417. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5135 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5136 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5137 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5138 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5139
514018. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5141 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5142 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5143
514419. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5145 string, for example:
5146
5147 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5148
5149 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5150 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5151 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5152 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5153 the routers could not see them.
5154
515520. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5156 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5157
515821. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5159 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5160 output).
5161
516222. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5163 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5164 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5165 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5166 that needed quoting.
5167
516823. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5169 was not being matched caselessly.
5170
517124. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5172 backslashes.
5173
517425. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5175 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5176 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5177 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5178 when use_sender is false.
5179
518026. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5181
518227. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5183
518428. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5185
518629. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5187 the configuration file.
5188
518930. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5190 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5191
519231. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5193
519432. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5195 bytes in the message body.
5196
519733. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5198 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5199 delivery.
5200
520134. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5202
520335. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5204
520536. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5206 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5207 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5208 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5209 another IP address.
5210
5211
5212Exim version 4.34
5213-----------------
5214
5215 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5216 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5217
5218 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5219 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5220 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5221 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5222 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5223
5224 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5225 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5226
5227 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5228 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5229 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5230
5231 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5232 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5233 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5234
5235 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5236 for routers.
5237
5238 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5239 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5240 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5241 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5242 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5243 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5244 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5245
5246
5247Exim version 4.33
5248-----------------
5249
5250 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5251 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5252 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5253 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5254 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5255 default (and expected) setting.
5256
5257 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5258 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5259 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5260 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5261
5262 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5263 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5264
5265 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5266 in domain lists.
5267
5268 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5269 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5270 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5271 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5272 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5273 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5274
5275 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5276 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5277 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5278
5279 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5280 part (NOT match_host).
5281
5282 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5283
5284 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5285 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5286 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5287 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5288 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5289 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5290 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5291 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5292 the same named file.
5293
529410. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5295 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5296 when Exim is built.
5297
529811. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5299 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5300 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5301 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5302 a host name.
5303
530412. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5305 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5306 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5307
530813. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5309
531014. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5311
531215. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5313
531416. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5315 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5316
531717. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5318 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5319 before starting the TLS session.
5320
532118. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5322
532319. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5324 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5325
532620. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5327 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5328 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5329 colon in the middle).
5330
5331
5332Exim version 4.32
5333-----------------
5334
5335 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5336 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5337 multiple configurations are in use.
5338
5339 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5340 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5341 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5342 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5343 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5344 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5345
5346 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5347 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5348
5349 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5350 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5351 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5352
5353 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5354 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5355 occurs.
5356
5357 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5358 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5359
5360 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5361
5362 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5363 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5364
5365 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5366
5367 -prval:sval
5368
5369 is equivalent to
5370
5371 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5372
5373 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5374 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5375 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5376 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5377 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5378
537910. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5380 Exim's behaviour:
5381
5382 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5383 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5384 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5385 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5386 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5387 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5388
5389 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5390 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5391 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5392 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5393 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5394 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5395 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5396 string.
5397
5398 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5399 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5400 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5401 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5402 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5403
540411. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5405
540612. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5407 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5408 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5409
541013. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5411
541214. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5413 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5414 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5415 information.
5416
541715. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5418 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5419
542016. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5421 Three changes have been made:
5422
5423 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5424 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5425 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5426 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5427 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5428
5429 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5430 been restored.
5431
5432 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5433 the modified behaviour.
5434
5435
5436Exim version 4.31
5437-----------------
5438
5439 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5440 Larry Rosenman.
5441
5442 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5443 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5444
5445 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5446 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5447 try to track down a specific problem.
5448
5449 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5450 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5451 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5452
5453 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5454 warning.
5455
5456 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5457 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5458 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5459 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5460 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5461 some earlier ones do not.
5462
5463 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5464
5465 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5466 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5467 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5468 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5469 address literals are enabled, of course).
5470
5471 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5472
547310. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5474 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5475 by a command such as
5476
5477 exim -f "" ...
5478
5479 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5480
548111. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5482
548312. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5484 remained set. It is now erased.
5485
548613. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5487 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5488
548914. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5490 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5491 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5492 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5493 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5494 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5495 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5496 appropriate error code.
5497
549815. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5499 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5500 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5501 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5502 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5503 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5504
550516. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5506 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5507 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5508
550917. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5510 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5511 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5512 terminate the header.
5513
551418. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5515 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5516 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5517
551819. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5519 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5520 (4.30/29). In particular:
5521
5522 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5523 imposed.
5524
5525 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5526 to write a maildirsize file.
5527
5528 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5529 the transport, the new value overrides.
5530
5531 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5532 count.
5533
553420. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5535 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5536 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5537 space or a tab.
5538
553921. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5540 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5541 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5542 the fallback hosts.
5543
554422. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5545 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5546 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5547
554823. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5549 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5550 using a union.
5551
555224. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5553 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5554 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5555
555625. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5557
555826. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5559
556027. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5561
556228. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5563 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5564 become corrupted.
5565
556629. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5567 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5568 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5569 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5570 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5571 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5572 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5573 too great.
5574
557530. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5576 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5577 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5578 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5579 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5580 incorrectly.
5581
558231. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5583 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5584 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5585 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5586 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5587 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5588 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5589 cached value only when the same options are set.
5590
559132. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5592
559333. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5594 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5595 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5596 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5597 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5598
559934: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5600 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5601 it is clearly obsolete.
5602
560335. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5604 transport.
5605
560636. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5607 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5608 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5609 times.
5610
561137. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5612 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5613 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5614 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5615 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5616
561738. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5618 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5619 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5620 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5621
562239. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5623
5624 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5625
5626 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5627 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5628 2^31.
5629
563040. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5631 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5632 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5633 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5634 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5635 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5636 $localpart_data.
5637
563841. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5639 with the -f command-line option.
5640
564142. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5642 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5643 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5644 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5645 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5646 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5647
564843. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5649 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5650 line.
5651
565244. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5653 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5654 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5655 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5656 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5657 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5658 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5659 buffer is too small.
5660
566145. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5662 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5663
566446. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5665 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5666 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5667 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5668 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5669 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5670 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5671 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5672 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5673
567447. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5675 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5676 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5677
567848. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5679 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5680 ACL").
5681
568249. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5683 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5684 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5685 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5686 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5687
568850. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5689 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5690 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5691 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5692 is set.
5693
569451. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5695
569652. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5697
569853. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5699 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5700
570154. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5702 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5703 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5704
570555. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5706 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5707 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5708 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5709 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5710
571156. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5712 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5713 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5714 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5715 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5716 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5717 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5718
571957. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5720 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5721 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5722 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5723 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5724 the test of how many are available.
5725
572658. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5727 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5728 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 5729 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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5730 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5731 new message is started.
5732
573359. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5734 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5735
573660. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5737 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5738
573961. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5740 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5741 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5742 is no long logged.
5743
574462. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5745 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5746 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5747 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5748 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5749 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5750 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5751
575263. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5753 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5754 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5755 interpreted as octal.
5756
575764. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5758 setting.
5759
576065. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5761 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5762 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5763 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5764 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5765 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5766
576766. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5768 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5769 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5770 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5771
5772 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5773 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5774 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5775 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5776
5777 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5778 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5779 is a bug fix.
5780
5781 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5782 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5783
578467. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5785
578668. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5787 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5788 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5789 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5790
579169. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5792 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5793 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5794 supplied", which is not helpful.
5795
579670. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5797 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5798 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5799
580071. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5801 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5802 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5803 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5804 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5805 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5806 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5807 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5808
580972. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5810 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5811 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5812 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5813 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5814
581573. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5816 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5817 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5818 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 5819 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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5820 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5821
582274. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5823 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5824 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5825
582675. Added write_rejectlog option.
5827
582876. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5829 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5830 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5831 variables.
5832
583377. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5834
583578. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5836 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5837 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5838 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5839 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5840 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5841 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5842 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5843
584479. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5845 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5846 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5847 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5848 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5849
585080. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5851 Haardt.
5852
585381. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5854 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5855 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5856 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5857 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5858 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5859 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5860 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5861 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5862
5863
5864Exim version 4.30
5865-----------------
5866
5867 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5868 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5869 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5870
5871 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5872 fixed.
5873
5874 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5875 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5876 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5877
5878 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5879 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5880 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5881 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5882 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 5883 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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5884
5885 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5886 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5887 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5888 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5889 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5890 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5891 the Exim test suite.
5892
5893 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5894 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5895 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5896 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5897
5898 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5899 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5900 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5901 specify it in this variable.
5902
5903 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5904 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5905 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5906 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5907
5908 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5909 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5910 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5911 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5912
5913 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5914 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5915 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5916 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5917 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5918
5919 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5920
592110. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5922 they are logged.
5923
592411. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5925 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5926 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5927 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5928 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5929
593012. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5931 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5932
593313. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5934 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 5935 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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5936 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5937 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5938
593914. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5940 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5941
594215. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5943 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5944 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5945
594616. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5947 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5948
594917. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5950 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5951
595218. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5953 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5954 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5955
595619. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5957 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5958
595920. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5960 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5961 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5962 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5963
596421. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5965
596622. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5967 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5968 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5969 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5970
597123. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5972
597324. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5974 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5975
597625. Added .include_if_exists.
5977
597826. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5979 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5980 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5981 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5982 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5983 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5984
598527. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5986
598728. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5988 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5989 this.
5990
599129. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5992
599330. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5994 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5995
5996 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5997 550 Sender verify failed
5998
5999 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6000 the final line of the response.
6001
600231. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6003 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6004 all other user lookups.
6005
600632. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6007 delivery time.
6008
600933. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6010 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6011 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6012 result into an int without checking.
6013
601434. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6015 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6016 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6017
601835. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6019 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6020 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6021 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6022
602336. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6024 correctly.
6025
602637. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6027 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6028
602938. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6030 to the empty sender.
6031
603239. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6033 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6034 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6035 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6036 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6037 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6038 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6039 panic log.
6040
604140. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6042 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6043 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6044 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6045 used.
6046
604741. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6048 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6049
605042. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6051 timestamps.
6052
605343. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6054 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6055
605644. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6057
605845. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6059 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6060 logs.
6061
606246. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6063 as soon as it is encountered.
6064
606547. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6066
606748. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6068 rewritten to "<>".
6069
607049. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6071 recognizes a tab character.
6072
607350. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6074 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6075 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6076 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6077
607851. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6079
608052. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6081 crash.
6082
608353. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6084
608554. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6086
608755. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6088 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6089 2822.
6090
609156. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6092 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6093 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6094 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6095 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6096
609757. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6098 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6099
610058. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6101 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6102 list (.included file names were always shown).
6103
610459. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6105 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6106 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6107 root at that time.
6108
610960. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6110 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6111
611261. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6113
611462. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6115
611663. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6117
611864. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6119 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6120 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6121 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6122 failures to open the logs.
6123
612465. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6125 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6126 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6127 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6128 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6129 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6130 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6131
6132
6133Exim version 4.24
6134-----------------
6135
6136 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6137 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6138 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6139 change 4.23/1.
6140
6141 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6142 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6143 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6144
6145 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6146 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6147 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6148
6149 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6150 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6151 causing some misleading effects.
6152
6153 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6154 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6155 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6156
6157 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6158 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6159 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6160 queue-runner function directly.
6161
6162
6163Exim version 4.23
6164-----------------
6165
6166 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6167 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6168
6169 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6170 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6171 was always written to the default place.
6172
6173 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6174 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6175 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6176
6177 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6178
6179 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6180
6181 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6182 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6183 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6184
6185 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6186 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6187 must start.
6188
6189 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6190 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6191 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6192
6193 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6194 command line option is disabled.
6195
6196 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6197 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6198
6199 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6200
6201 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6202
6203 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6204 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6205
620610. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6207
620811. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6209 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6210 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6211 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6212 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6213 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6214
621512. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6216 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6217 timeout.
6218
621913. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6220 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6221
622214. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6223 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6224
622515. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6226 received was valid base64.
6227
622816. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6229 name of the variable that was being set.
6230
623117. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6232
623318. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6234 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6235 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6236 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6237 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6238 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6239
624019. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6241
624220. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6243 nor realm was specified.
6244
624521. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6246 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6247 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6248 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6249
625022. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6251 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6252 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6253
625423. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6255 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6256 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6257
625824. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6259 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6260 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6261 some systems use these upper case variants.
6262
626325. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6264 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6265 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6266 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6267
626826. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6269
627027. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6271 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6272
627328. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6274 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6275 expansion variable.
6276
627729. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6278
627930. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6280 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6281 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6282 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6283
628431. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6285 using it.
6286
628732. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6288 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6289 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6290
629133. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6292 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6293
629434. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6295 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6296 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6297 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6298
629935. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6300 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6301 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6302
630336. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6304
630537. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6306 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6307 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6308 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6309 aborted.
6310
631138. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6312 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6313 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6314
631539. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6316
631740. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6318 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6319
632041. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6321 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6322
632342. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6324 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6325 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6326 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6327 when emails are that large.
6328
6329
6330
6331Exim version 4.22
6332-----------------
6333
6334 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6335 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6336
6337 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6338 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6339 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6340
6341 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6342 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6343 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6344
6345 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6346 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6347 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6348 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6349 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6350
6351 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6352 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6353 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6354 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6355 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6356 ever.
6357
6358 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6359 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6360 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6361 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6362 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6363 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6364 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6365 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6366 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6367 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6368 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6369 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6370 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6371 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6372
6373 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6374 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6375 parameterised it.
6376
6377 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6378 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6379 error should be diagnosed.
6380
6381 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6382 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6383 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6384 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6385 appeared instead of "NULL".
6386
638710. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6388 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6389 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6390 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6391 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6392 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6393 proceeds).
6394
6395 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6396 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6397 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6398
6399
6400Exim version 4.21
6401-----------------
6402
6403 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6404 or receiver verification errors.
6405
6406 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6407 name.
6408
6409 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6410 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6411 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6412 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6413
6414 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6415 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6416 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6417 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6418 shouldn't happen again.
6419
6420 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6421 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6422 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6423
6424 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6425 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6426
6427 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6428
6429 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6430 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6431
6432 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6433 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6434 RFC.
6435
643610. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6437 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6438 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6439
644011. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6441 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6442 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6443 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6444
644512. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6446 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6447 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6448 to define what should happen).
6449
645013. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6451 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6452 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6453
645414. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6455
645615. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6457
645816. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6459 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6460
4c04137d 646117. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
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6462 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6463 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6464 structure in all cases.
6465
6466 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6467 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6468 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6469 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6470
647118. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6472 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6473 domain name.
6474
647519. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6476 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6477
647820. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6479 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6480
648121. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6482 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6483 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6484
648522. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6486 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6487 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6488
648923. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6490 the book and for uniformity.
6491
649224. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6493
649425. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 6495 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
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6496 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6497 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6498 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6499 non-existent command as the problem.
6500
650126. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6502 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6503 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6504
650527. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6506
650728. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6508 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6509 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6510
651129. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6512 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6513 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6514 timestamps using strftime().
6515
651630. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6517 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6518
651932. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6520 transport-time rewrites.
6521
652233. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6523 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6524 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6525 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6526
652734. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6528 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6529
653035. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6531 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6532 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6533 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6534 comma and a space.
6535
653636. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6537 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6538 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6539 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6540 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6541 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6542 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6543
654437. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6545 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6546 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6547 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6548 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6549
655038. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6551 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6552 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6553 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6554 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6555 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6556 remaining text gets split now.
6557
655839. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6559 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6560 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6561 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6562
656340. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6564 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6565 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6566 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6567 $return_path.
6568
656941. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6570 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6571 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6572 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6573 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6574 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6575 passed through if needed.
6576
657742. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6578 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6579 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6580 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6581 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6582 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6583
658443. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6585 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6586 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6587 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6588 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6589
659044. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6591 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6592 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6593 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6594 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6595
659645. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6597 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6598 noticed.
6599
660046. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6601 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6602 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6603 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6604 mayhem of various kinds.
6605
660647. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6607 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 6608 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
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6609 the right test for positive values.
6610
661148. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6612 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6613 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6614 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6615 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6616 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6617 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6618 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6619 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6620 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6621 envelope.
6622
662349. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6624 module.
6625
662650. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6627 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6628 forbidding it.
6629
663051. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6631 the existing equality matching.
6632
663352. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6634 dealing with inode numbers.
6635
663653. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6637 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6638 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6639
664054. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6641 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6642 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6643 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6644 local_scan().
6645
664655. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6647 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6648 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6649 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6650 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6651 relay addresses has also been removed.
6652
665356. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6654
665557. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6656 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6657 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6658
665958. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6660 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6661 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6662 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6663 processing applies to CR:
6664
6665 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6666 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6667
6668 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6669 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6670 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6671 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6672
667359. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6674 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6675 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6676
667760. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6678 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6679 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6680 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6681 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6682 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6683 arisen.
6684
668561. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6686 program routers.
6687
668862. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6689 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6690 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6691 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6692 adds:
6693
6694 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6695
6696 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6697
6698 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6699
670063. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6701 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6702 not considered personal.
6703
670464. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6705
670665. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6707
670866. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6709
671067. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6711 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6712 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6713 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6714 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6715 header lines, and spool format errors.
6716
671768. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6718 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6719 for more flexibility.
6720
672169. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6722 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6723 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6724
672570. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6726 Sabourenkov.
6727
672871. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6729 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6730 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6731 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6732 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6733 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6734 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6735 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6736 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6737
673872. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6739 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6740 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6741 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6742 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6743 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6744 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6745
674673. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6747 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6748 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6749
675074. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6751 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6752 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6753 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6754 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6755 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6756 instead of killing the process with assert().
6757
675875. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6759 than Unicode encoding.
6760
676176. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6762 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6763 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6764 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6765
676677. Added process_log_path.
6767
676878. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6769 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6770
677179. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6772 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6773
677480. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6775 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6776 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6777
677881. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6779 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6780 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6781 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6782 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6783 were applied:
6784
6785 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6786 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6787 as invalid.
6788
678982. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6790 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6791 they will be used during message reception.
6792
6793
6794Exim version 4.20
6795-----------------
6796
6797The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6798
6799****