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3Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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9PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
10 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
11 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
12
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13PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
14 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
15
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16JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
17
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18PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
19
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20PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
21
22PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_codedump option for pipe transports.
23
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24PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
25
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26PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
27 without a peer certificate (I believe), leading to a segfault because of
28 an assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
29 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
30
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31PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
32 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
33 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
34
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35PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
36
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37PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
38
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39PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
40
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41PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
42
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43PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
44
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46Exim version 4.72
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48
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49JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
50 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
51 typos
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53JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
54 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
55 (Finput)
edae0343 56
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57NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
58 Patch from Alain Williams
59
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60NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
61
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62NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
63 Patch from Andreas Metzler
64
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65NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
66 Patch from Kirill Miazine
67
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68NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
69
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70JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
71
a466095c 72NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 73 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 74
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75TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
76
77TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
78
79MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
80 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
81 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
82
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83NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
84 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 85
b26eacf1 86NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
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87 Patch by Simon Arlott
88
179c5980 89PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 90 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 91
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93Exim version 4.71
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95
7d9f747b 96TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 97
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98NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
99
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100NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
101
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102NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
103
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104NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
105
7c6d71af 106
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107Exim version 4.70
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109
cdd3bb85 110TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 111 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
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112
113TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
114 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 115 Hirsch).
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116
117TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
118 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 119 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
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120
121TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
122 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
123
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124NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
125 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
126 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
127 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
128
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129NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
130 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 131 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 132
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133TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
134
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135TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
136
dae9d94e 137NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 138 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 139
7d9f747b 140NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 141
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142TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
143 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
144 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
145 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
146
65a7d8c3 147NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 148 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 149
23510047 150TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 151
7d9f747b 152NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 153
7d8eec3a 154NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 155 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 156
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157TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
158 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 159
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160TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
161 that they are available at delivery time.
162
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163TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
164
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165TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
166 incoming_port log selectors.
167
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168TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
169 setting expands to an empty string.
170
ce552449 171NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 172 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 173
e765a0f1 174NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 175 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 176
4f054c63 177NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 178 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 179
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180NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
181 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 182
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183NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
184 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 185
b52bc06e 186NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 187 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 188
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189NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
190
4c69d561 191NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 192 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 193
d5c39246 194NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 195 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 196
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197TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
198
8f3414a1 199NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 200 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 201
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202NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
203
204NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 205
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206NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
207 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 208
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209NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
210 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 211
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212NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
213 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 214
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215NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
216 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 217
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218NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
219 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 220
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221NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
222 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 223
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224NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
225 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 226
7d9f747b 227NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 228 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 229
7d9f747b 230NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 231
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232NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
233 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 234
7d9f747b 235NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 236
7d9f747b 237NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 238
7d9f747b 239NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 240
7d9f747b 241NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 242
17792b53 243NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 244 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 245
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246NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
247 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 248
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249NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mistmatches.
250 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 251
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252NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
253 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 254
7d9f747b 255NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 256
7d9f747b 257NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 258
7d9f747b 259NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 260
7d9f747b 261NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
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267TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
268 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
269 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
270
271 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
272 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
273 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
274 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
275 build errors in sieve.c.
276
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277NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
278 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
279 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
280
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281SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
282
7d9f747b 283NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 284
7d9f747b 285NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 286
7d9f747b 287NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
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293PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
294
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295PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
296 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
297 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
298 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
299 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
300 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
301 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
302 for iplsearch lookups.
303
304 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
305 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
306 previously such lookups could never work.
307
308 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
309 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
310 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
311
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312TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
313 version.
314
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315MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
316 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
317 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
318 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
319 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
320 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
321
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322TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
323 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
324
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325MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
326 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
327 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
328 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
329 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
330 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
331
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332PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
333 local_scan API.
334
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335PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
336
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337PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
338 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
339 encrypted.
340
341PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
342 by clients under certain conditions.
343
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344PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
345 "_responses" off the end of the name.
346
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347PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
348
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349PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
350 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
351
352PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
353
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354PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
355
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356PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
357
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358PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
359 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
360
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361PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
362
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363PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
364 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
365
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366PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
367
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368PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
369
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370PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
371 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
372 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
373 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 374
ddea74fa 375PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
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376 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
377 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
378
ddea74fa 379PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
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380 and InterBase are left for another time.)
381
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382PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
383
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384PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
385
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386PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
387
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388PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
389 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
390 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
391
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395
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396MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
397 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
398 Jan Srzednicki.
399
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400PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
401 issue a MAIL command.
402
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403PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
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405 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
406
407 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
408 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
409 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
410 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
411 item. This has been fixed.
412
413PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
414 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
415
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416PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
417 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
418
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419PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
420 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
421 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
422
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423SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
424
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425PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
426 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
427 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
428 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
429 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
430
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431MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
432 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
433 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
434
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435PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
436 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
437 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
438 the server_setid option was incorrect.
439
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440PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
441
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442PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
443
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444PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
445 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
446 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
447 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
448 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
449
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450PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
451
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452PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
453 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
454 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
455 values).
456
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457PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
458
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459PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
460
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461PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
462
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463PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
464
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465PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
466
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467PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
468 no_callout_flush is set.
469
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470PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
471 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
472 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
473 fixed.
474
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475PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
476
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477PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
478 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
479 other ACL rejections are.
480
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481PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
482 with slight modification.
483
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484PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
485 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
486
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487PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
488 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
489 connection.
490
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491PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
492 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
493
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494SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
495
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496PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
497 expansion side effects.
498
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499PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
500 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
501 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
502 be the same.
503
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504MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
505 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
506 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
507
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508PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
509 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
510 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
511 were accidentally chopped off.
512
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513PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
514 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
515 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
516 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
517 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
518 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
519 pipelining has not been advertised.
520
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521PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
522
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523PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
524 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
525 This has been fixed.
526
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527PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
528 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
529 reported on Solaris.
530
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531PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
532 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
533 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
534 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
535 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
536 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
537 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
538
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539PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
540 cpus.
541
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542PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
543
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544PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
545
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546PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
547 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
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548 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
549 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
550 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
551 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 552
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553PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
554 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
555 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
556 host_all_ignored option.
557
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558PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
559 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
560 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
561 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
562 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
563 is what is supposed to happen).
564
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565PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
566 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
567 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
568 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
569 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
570 uses the Exim user.
571
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572PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
573 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
574 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
575 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
576 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
577 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
578 users.
579
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580PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
581
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582SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
583 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
584 (Jez Hancock).
585 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
586 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
587
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588SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
589
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590PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
591
58eb016e 592PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
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593 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
594 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
595 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
596 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
597 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
598 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
599 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 600 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
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601 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
602 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 603
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604PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
605 advertised in response to EHLO.
606
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608Exim version 4.66
609-----------------
610
611PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
612 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
613
614 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
615 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
616
617 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
618 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
619 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
620
621 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
622 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
623 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
624 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
625 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
626
627
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628Exim version 4.65
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630
631TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
632 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
633 versions. (#438)
634
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635MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
636 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
637 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
638
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639PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
640 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
641 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
642 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
643 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
644 rather than extend the field.
645
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647Exim version 4.64
648-----------------
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650TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
651 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
652 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
653 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
654 these files.
655
656TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
657 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
658 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
659
660TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
661 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
662 hence the _LINUX specificness.
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663
664TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
665 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
666 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
667 in the field name.
668
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669PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
670 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
671 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
672 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
673 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
674 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
675 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
676 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
677 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
678 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
679 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
680
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681PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
682 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
683
684PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
685 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
686 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
687 ignores EPIPE as well.
688
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689PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
690 (quoted-printable decoding).
691
cc2ed8f7 692PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 693 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 694
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695PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
696
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697PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
698
699PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
700
38a0a95f 701PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 702 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 703
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704JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
705 in 4.64-PH/09.
706
707JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
708 miscellaneous code fixes
709
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710PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
711 rejections.
712
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713PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
714 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
715 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
716 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
717 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
718 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
719 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
720 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 721
14aa5a05 722PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 723 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
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724 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
725 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
726 function.
727 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
728 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
729 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
730 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
731 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
732 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
733 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
734 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
735 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
736
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737PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
738 decoding.
739
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740PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
741 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
742 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
743 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
744 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
745 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
746 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
747 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
748
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749PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
750 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
751 list.
752
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753PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
754 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
755 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
756 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
757 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
758 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
759 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
760 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
761 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
762 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
763 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
764 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
765 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
766
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767PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
768 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
769 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
770 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
771 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
772 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
773 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
774
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775PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
776 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
777 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
778 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
779 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
780 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
781 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
782 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
783 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
784 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
785
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786PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
787 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
788 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
789 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
790 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
791
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792PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
793 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
794 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
795 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
796 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
797 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
798 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
799
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800PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
801 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
802 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
803 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
804 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
805 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
806 been verified.
807
48da4259 808PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
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809 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
810 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
811 and authorization.)
812
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813PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
814 if any retry times were supplied.
815
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816PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
817 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
818 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
819
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820PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
821
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822PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
823
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824PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
825 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
826 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
827 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
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828 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
829 before) are ignored.
fd700877 830
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831PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
832 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
833
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834PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
835 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
836 committing the later change.]
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837
838PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
839 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
840 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
841 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
842 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
843 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
844 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
845 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
846 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
847
848 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
849 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
850 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
851 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
852 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
853 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
854 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
855 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
856 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
857
858 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
859 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
860 hammering the server.
861
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862PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
863 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
864
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865PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
866
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867PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
868 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
869 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
870
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871PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
872 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
873 one case where this was not true.
874
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875PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
876 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
877 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
878 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
879 fails.
880
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881PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
882 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
883 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
884 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
885 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
886 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
887 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
888 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
889 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
890 smtp transport.
891
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892PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
893 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
894 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
895 same for both kinds of LMTP.
896
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897PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
898 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
899
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900PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
901 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
902 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
903
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904PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
905
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906PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
907
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908PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
909
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910PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
911 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
912 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
913 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
914
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915PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
916 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
917
4e88a19f
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918PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
919 be meaningful with "accept".
920
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921SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
922 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
923
924SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
925 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
926 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
927
928SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
929 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
930 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
931 there is data to show.
932 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
933
934SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
935 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
936 as well as the number of messages.
937
938SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
939 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
940 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
941
942SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
943 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
944 have a flag are now skipped.
945
946SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
947 Added the -emptyok flag.
948
949SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
950 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
951
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952JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
953 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
954 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
955
956JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
957 match 4.64-PH/13
958
959JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
960 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
961
962JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
963
964JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
965 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
966
8a10f5a4
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967PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
968
30e18802
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969PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
970 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
971 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
972 contravention of the specifications.
973
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974PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
975 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
976 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 977
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978PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
979 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
980 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
981
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982PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
983
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984MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
985 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
986 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
987 some point in the past.
988
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989PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
990 transport during callout processing was broken.
991
56f5d9bd
PH
992PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
993 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
994
922e1c28
PH
995PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
996 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
997
21eb6e72
PH
998PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
999 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1000
a0540757
PH
1001PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1002
944e9e9c 1003
478be7b0
SC
1004Exim version 4.63
1005-----------------
1006
1007SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1008 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1009
1010SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1011 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1012 there is data to show.
1013 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1014
1015SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1016 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1017
2b965a65
TF
1018TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1019 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1020
45b91596
PH
1021TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1022 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1023
c59f5781
TF
1024TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1025 submissions from trusted users.
1026
90fc3069
TF
1027TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1028 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1029
6083aca0
TF
1030TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1031 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1032 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1033 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1034 there is now a framework to start from.
1035
765b530f
PH
1036PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1037 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1038 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1039
4e167a8c
PH
1040PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1041
4608d683
PH
1042PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1043
b8dc3e4a
PH
1044PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1045
5418e93b
PH
1046PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1047 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1048 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1049
b4a9bda2
PH
1050PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1051 libradius.
1052
45b91596
PH
1053PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1054 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1055 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1056
5547e2c5
PH
1057PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1058 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1059 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1060 its arguments.
1061
dbcef0ea
PH
1062PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1063 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1064 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1065 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1066 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1067
25257489
PH
1068PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1069 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1070
c816d124
PH
1071PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1072
a9ccd69a
PH
1073PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1074 operations in malware.c.
1075
75fa1910
PH
1076PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1077 signatures.
1078
a7d7aa58
PH
1079PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1080 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1081 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1082 all.
1083
42119b09
PH
1084PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1085 statements to "add_header".
1086
41609df5
PH
1087PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1088 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1089
a5bd321b
PH
1090PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1091 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1092 latter.
1093
e85a7ad5 1094PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1095 so that it is now:
1096
e85a7ad5
PH
1097 ${if or { \
1098 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1099 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1100 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1101 }{no}{yes}}
1102
e85a7ad5
PH
1103 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1104 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1105
d8fe1c03
PH
1106PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1107 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1108
16282d2b
PH
1109PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1110 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1111 any possible encoding problems.
1112
35d40a98
PH
1113PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1114 but not after initializing Perl.
1115
034d99ab
PH
1116PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1117 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1118 apparently, which is not desirable.
1119
6ec97b1b
PH
1120PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1121 queries.
1122
e22ca4ac
JJ
1123JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1124 --not options
1125
1126JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1127
33d73e3b
PH
1128PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1129 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1130 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1131 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1132
9ecb03f3
PH
1133PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1134 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1135 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1136
084efe8d
PH
1137PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1138 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1139 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1140 0.12.
1141
366fc9f0
PH
1142PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1143 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1144 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1145 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1146 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1147
c59f5781 1148
c887c79e
TF
1149Exim version 4.62
1150-----------------
1151
1152TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1153 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1154
1cce3af8
PH
1155PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1156 patch).
1157
afb3eaaf
PH
1158PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1159 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1160 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1161 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1162 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1163 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1164 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1165 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1166 451 error is used.
1167
e173618b
PH
1168PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1169
dd16e114
PH
1170PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1171 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1172 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1173
f7fd3850
PH
1174PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1175 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1176 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1177 odd errors.
1178
d87df92c
PH
1179PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1180 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1181
7e9f683d
PH
1182PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1183 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1184 option (which defaults to 0600).
1185
bfad5236
PH
1186PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1187
01c490df
PH
1188PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1189 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1190 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1191 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1192 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1193 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1194 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1195
d6629cdc
PH
1196PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1197
1cce3af8 1198
214e2000
PH
1199Exim version 4.61
1200-----------------
1201
1202PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1203 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1204 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1205 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1206 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1207 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1208 addresses as local.
1209
f9daeae0
PH
1210PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1211 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1212
7e66e54d
PH
1213PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1214
c8ea1597
PH
1215PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1216 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1217 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1218 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1219 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1220 grumble.
1221
911f6fde
PH
1222PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1223 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1224
47ca6d6c
PH
1225PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1226 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1227 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1228 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1229 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1230
ed0e9820
PH
1231PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1232 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1233 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1234 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1235
eff37e47
PH
1236PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1237 be the same on different OS.
1238
1921d2ea
PH
1239PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1240 testing.
1241
b3f69ca8
JJ
1242JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1243 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1244
1245JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1246 in 4.61-PH/06
1247
424a1c63
PH
1248PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1249 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1250 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1251 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1252 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1253 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1254 bounce message.
1255
7a100415
PH
1256PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1257 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1258 when Exim was called.
1259
19b9dc85
PH
1260PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1261 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1262
309bd837
PH
1263PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1264 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1265 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1266 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1267
59e82a2a
PH
1268PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1269 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1270 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1271 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1272 changes:
1273
1274 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1275 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1276 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1277
1278 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1279 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1280 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1281
9edc04ce
PH
1282PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1283 feature).
1284
1349e1e5
PH
1285PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1286 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1287 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1288 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1289 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1290 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1291 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1292 values from the SRV records were lost.
1293
ea49d0e1
PH
1294PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1295 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1296 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1297
064a94c9
PH
1298PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1299 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1300 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1301
727071f8
PH
1302PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1303 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1304 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1305 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1306 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1307 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1308 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1309 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1310 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 1311 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 1312
f78eb7c6
PH
1313PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1314 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1315 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1316
21c28500
PH
1317PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1318 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1319
1320PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1321 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1322 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1323 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1324 is given.
1325
1688f43b
PH
1326PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1327 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1328 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1329
1330PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1331 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1332 PH/23 above applies.
1333
9675b384
PH
1334PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1335 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1336 (for which there is an explicit test).
1337
6a3f1455
PH
1338PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1339
dac79d3e
PH
1340PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1341 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1342 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1343 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1344 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 1345
5977a0b3
PH
1346PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1347 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1348 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1349 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1350
c91535f3
PH
1351PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1352 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1353 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1354
0d46a8c8
PH
1355PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1356
278c6e6c
PH
1357PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1358
2cbb4081
PH
1359PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1360 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1361 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1362
3eef829e
PH
1363PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1364 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1365 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1366 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1367 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1368
1ab95fa6
PH
1369PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1370 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1371 the message gets confusing).
1372
230205fc
PH
1373PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1374 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
1375 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
1376 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
1377
75e0e026
PH
1378PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
1379 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
1380 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
1381 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
1382 same order.
1383
1384PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
1385 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
1386 the different processes.
1387
145396a6
PH
1388PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
1389
3cd34f13
PH
1390PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
1391
11121d3d
JJ
1392JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
1393 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
1394
1395JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
1396 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
1397
1398JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
1399 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
1400 messages matching specified criteria.
1401
8def5aaf
PH
1402PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
1403
929ba01c
PH
1404PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
1405 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
1406
2632889e
PH
1407PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
1408 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
1409 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
1410 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
1411 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
1412 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
1413 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
1414 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
1415 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
1416 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
1417
944a9c55
PH
1418PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
1419 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
1420 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
1421
4a23603b
PH
1422PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
1423
4730f942
PH
1424PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
1425 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
1426 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
1427 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
1428 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
1429 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
1430 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
1431 the variable.
1432
30dba1e6
PH
1433PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
1434 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
1435
382afc6b
PH
1436PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
1437
a86229cf
PH
1438PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
1439
50c99ba6
PH
1440PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1441
d35e429d
PH
1442PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
1443 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
1444 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
1445 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
1446 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
1447 size of the count of files.
1448
f90d018c
PH
1449PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
1450
75def545
PH
1451PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
1452 used in LMTP mode:
1453
1454 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
1455 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
1456 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
1457 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
1458
1459 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
1460 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
1461 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
1462
1463PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
1464 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
1465 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
1466 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
1467 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
1468
c46782ef
PH
1469PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
1470 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
1471
71fafd95
PH
1472PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
1473 will now be deprecated.
1474
2c5db4fd
PH
1475PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
1476
9cf6b11a
JJ
1477JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
1478 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
1479 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
1480
1481JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
1482 with very large, slow to parse queues
1483
1484JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
1485
1486JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
1487
898d150f
PH
1488PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
1489 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
1490 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
1491 SMTP output lines.
1492
46218253
PH
1493PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
1494 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
1495 Sieve code now uses this.
1496
e97957bc
PH
1497PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
1498 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
1499
81e509d7
PH
1500PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
1501 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
1502
3d240ff7
PH
1503PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
1504
b37c4101
PH
1505PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
1506 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
1507 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
1508 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
1509 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
1510
79378e0f
PH
1511PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
1512 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
1513 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
1514 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
1515
e49c7bb4
PH
1516PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
1517
d114ec46
PH
1518PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
1519
f3d7df6c
PH
1520PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
1521 is preferred over IPv4.
1522
715ab376
PH
1523PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
1524 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
1525 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
1526 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
1527 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
1528 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
1529 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
1530
6b31b150
PH
1531PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
1532 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
1533 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
1534
1535PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
1536
d515a917
PH
1537PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
1538 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
1539 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
1540 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
1541 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
1542 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
1543 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
1544 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
1545 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
1546 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
1547 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
1548
9b8fadde
PH
1549PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
1550 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
1551 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
1552
214e2000 1553
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1554Exim version 4.60
1555-----------------
1556
cc38ddbf
PH
1557PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
1558
1559 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
1560 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
1561
1562 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
1563 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
1564 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 1565
72fdd6ae
PH
1566PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
1567
1568 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
1569 not a single digit.
1570
1571 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
1572 string.
1573
1574 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
1575 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
1576 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
1577 silly things.
1578
1579 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
1580 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
1581
1582 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
1583 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 1584
cb741023
PH
1585PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
1586 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
1587 "/bin:/usr/bin".
1588
f174f16e
PH
1589PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
1590 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 1591
c25242d7
PH
1592PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
1593 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
1594
1595 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
1596
1597 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
1598 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
1599 this:
1600
1601 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
1602
82c19f95
PH
1603PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
1604 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
1605 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
1606 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
1607 identical. For example:
1608
1609 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
1610
1611 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
1612 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
1613 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
1614
d7ffbc12
PH
1615PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
1616 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
1617 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
1618 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
1619
9f526266
PH
1620PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
1621 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
1622 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
1623 message.
1624
87fcc8b9
PH
1625PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
1626
1627 o fixes some comments
1628 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
1629 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
1630 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
1631 and documents the missing references header update
1632
1633 and most important:
1634
1635 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
1636 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
1637 result)
1638
456682f5
PH
1639PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
1640 Electronic Mail") by including:
1641
1642 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
1643
1644 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
1645 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
1646 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
1647 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
1648 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
1649
1650 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
1651
1652 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
1653
1654 The auto-replied keyword:
1655
1656 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
1657 message by an automatic process,
1658
1659 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
1660
1661 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
1662 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
1663
1664 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
1665 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
1666 other messages.
1667
3e46c1aa
PH
1668PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
1669 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 1670
49826d12
PH
1671PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
1672
eba0c039
PH
1673PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
1674 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
1675 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
1676
a0d6ba8a
PH
1677PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
1678 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
1679 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
1680
f0917727
PH
1681PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
1682 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
1683 and treats the condition as false.
1684
096fee00
PH
1685PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
1686
024bd3c2
PH
1687PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
1688 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
1689 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
1690 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
1691 not changing the active code.
1692
1693 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
1694 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
1695
1696 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
1697 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
1698
df199fec
PH
1699PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
1700 (Bugzilla #53).
1701
d27f1df3
PH
1702PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
1703 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
1704 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
1705 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
1706 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
1707 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
1708 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
1709 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
1710 the text comparison.
1711
96776534
PH
1712PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
1713 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
1714 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
1715 The same fix has been applied.
1716
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1718Exim version 4.54
1719-----------------
1720
1721PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
1722 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
1723 It now does.
1724
99a4b039
PH
1725PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
1726 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
1727
1728PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
1729
4b233853
PH
1730PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
1731 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
1732 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
1733 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
1734 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
1735
8857ccfd
PH
1736TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
1737 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
1738 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
1739 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
1740 or /domain=).
1741
433a2980
PH
1742PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
1743 testing suite.
1744
3e46c1aa 1745
9a799bc0 1746
e3a311ba
TK
1747Exim version 4.53
1748-----------------
1749
1750TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
1751 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
1752
13b685f9
PH
1753PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
1754
395ff96d
PH
1755PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
1756
5b68f6e4
PH
1757PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
1758 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
1759 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
1760
1ab52c69
PH
1761PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
1762 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
1763 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
1764
b07e6aa3
PH
1765PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
1766 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
1767 operating systems.
1768
254e032f
PH
1769PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
1770 ${stat: expansion item.
1771
3af76a81
PH
1772PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
1773 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
1774
2548ba04
PH
1775PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
1776 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
1777 file for comments.
1778
b6c6011d
PH
1779PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
1780
cf39cf57
PH
1781PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
1782 setting.
1783
f1513293
PH
1784PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
1785 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
1786
727549a4
PH
1787TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
1788
af46795e
PH
1789PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
1790 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
1791 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
1792 the end of the subprocess.
1793
d7b47fd0
PH
1794PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
1795 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
1796 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
1797 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
1798 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
1799
ee744174
JJ
1800JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
1801
b582ab87
PH
1802TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
1803
41a13e0a
PH
1804PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
1805 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
1806
f625cc5a
PH
1807PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
1808
1809PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
1810
21f7af35
PH
1811PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
1812 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
1813 HP-UX compiler.
1814
31480e42
PH
1815PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
1816
2d280592
PH
1817PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
1818 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
1819 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
1820
7cd1141b
PH
1821PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
1822 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
1823
1824PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
1825 host errors such as "Connection refused".
1826
750af86e
PH
1827PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
1828 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
1829
1830 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
1831 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
1832
1833 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
1834 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
1835 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
1836 contributed by a Radius user.
1837
1838PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
1839 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
1840
4304270b
TK
1841TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
1842 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
1843
750af86e
PH
1844PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
1845 available.
1846
64ffc24f
PH
1847PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
1848 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
1849 received.
1850
5dd9625b
PH
1851PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
1852 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
1853 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
1854 header lines when this was not necessary.
1855
5591031b
PH
1856PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
1857
ba18e66a
PH
1858PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
1859 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
1860 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
1861 exists".
1862
9cec981f
PH
1863PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
1864 -bV or -d is used.
1865
aa2b5c79
PH
1866PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
1867 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
1868 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
1869 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 1870
48a53b7f
PH
1871PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
1872
1c59d63b
PH
1873PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
1874
671012da
TK
1875TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
1876
1509d3a8
PH
1877PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
1878
1879PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
1880 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
1881 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
1882 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
1883 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
1884 settings.
1885
1886PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
1887
2fe1a124
PH
1888PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
1889 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
1890 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
1891 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
1892 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
1893 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
1894 which is clearly wrong.
1895
8800895a
PH
1896PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
1897
ccfdb010
PH
1898PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
1899 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
1900 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
1901 subsequently added.
1902
1130bfb0
PH
1903PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
1904 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
1905
ebcb507f
PH
1906PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
1907
c35e155c
PH
1908PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
1909 the "build-* directories that it finds.
1910
95d1f782
PH
1911PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
1912 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
1913
fd6de02e
PH
1914PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
1915 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
1916
58de37c5
PH
1917PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
1918 recipients, not senders.
1919
261cf466
TF
1920TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
1921 the ratelimit ACL was added.
1922
3ee512ff
PH
1923PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
1924
e08c430f
PH
1925PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
1926
bef5a11f
PH
1927PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
1928 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
1929 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
1930 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
1931
7546de58
TF
1932TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
1933
e5d5a95f
TF
1934TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
1935 clock is set back in time.
1936
2e88a017
TF
1937TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
1938 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
1939
a5f65aa4
TF
1940TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
1941 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
1942
e7726cbf
PH
1943PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
1944 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
1945 (see PH/47 above).
1946
a7fdad5b
TF
1947TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
1948 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
1949 header rewrites.
1950
6af56900
PH
1951PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
1952 type ("H").
1953
0925ede6
PH
1954PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
1955
66afa403
TF
1956TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
1957 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
1958 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
1959
0154e85a
TF
1960TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
1961 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
1962 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
1963 helo verification defer as a failure.
1964
16f12c76
PH
1965PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
1966 actual error message.
1967
bbe902f0 1968
e5a9dba6
PH
1969Exim version 4.52
1970-----------------
1971
1972TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
1973
22c3b60b
PH
1974PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
1975 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
1976 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
1977 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
1978
06a9b4b5
PH
1979TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
1980
c1ac6996
PH
1981PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
1982 can still be requested.
1983
9c7a242c
PH
1984PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
1985 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
1986 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
1987 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
1988
87ba3f5f
PH
1989TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
1990 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
1991 circumstances, but probably never did.
1992
1993PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
1994 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
1995 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
1996 in the header line.
1997
29aba418
TF
1998TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
1999
fe0dab11
TF
2000TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2001 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2002
11d337a4
TK
2003TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2004
2005TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2006
415c8f3b
PH
2007PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2008 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2009 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2010 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2011 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2012 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2013
958541e9
PH
2014PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2015 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2016 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2017 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2018 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2019 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2020
c206415f
TK
2021TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2022 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2023
2a4be8f9
PH
2024PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2025 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2026
1cba11c5
SC
2027SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2028 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2029
2030SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2031
2032SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2033
2034SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2035
2036SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2037
2038SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2039
2040SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2041
1005d00e
TK
2042TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2043
2044TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2045 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2046 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2047
2048TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2049 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2050 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2051 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2052
9b4768fa
PH
2053PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2054 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2055 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2056
2057PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2058 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2059 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2060 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2061
0d7eb84a
PH
2062PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2063 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2064 to be made).
2065
2066PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2067 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2068 should work with maildirs and everything.
2069
40727bee
TK
2070TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2071 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2072
554d2369
TF
2073TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2074 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2075
1f922db1
PH
2076PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2077 function for BDB 4.3.
2078
ef213c3b
PH
2079PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2080
8ac170f3
PH
2081PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2082 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2083 involved.
2084
b1c749bb
PH
2085PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2086 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2087 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2088 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2089 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2090 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2091
4aac9b49
PH
2092PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2093 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2094 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2095 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2096 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2097 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2098 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2099 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2100
294520c8
TK
2101TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2102 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2103 details.
2104
5bd022fe
PH
2105PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2106 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2107
90e9ce59
PH
2108PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2109 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2110 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2111 test. It is now used for both.
2112
5ea81592
PH
2113PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2114 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2115 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2116 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2117 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2118 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2119
c6c2dc1d
PH
2120PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2121 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2122 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2123 string_vformat().
2124
fffffe4c
PH
2125PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2126 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2127 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 2128
9a26b6b2
PH
2129PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2130 experimental DomainKeys support:
2131
2132 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2133 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2134 the control was given.
2135
2136 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2137
4aee0225
PH
2138PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2139
32d668a5
PH
2140PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2141
8187c3f3
PH
2142PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2143 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2144 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2145 db.h files).
2146
ff790e47 2147PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
2148 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2149 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2150 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2151 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2152 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2153 course.
ff790e47 2154
5417f6d1
PH
2155PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2156 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2157 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2158 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2159 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2160 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2161
59cf8544
PH
2162PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2163 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2164 do -d+all out of habit.
2165
e7ad8a65
PH
2166PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2167 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2168 x86_64 Fedora Core.
2169
ade42478
PH
2170PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2171 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2172 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2173 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2174 record types that Exim uses.
2175
182ad5cf
PH
2176PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2177 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2178 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2179 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2180 non-existent file that was broken.
2181
b0d9fc80
TK
2182TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2183 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2184
2185TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2186 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2187 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2188
2189TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2190
47c7a64a
PH
2191PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2192 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2193 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2194 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2195 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2196 same time.
2197
a388bce4
SC
2198SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2199 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2200 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2201 at a slight CPU cost.
2202
2203SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2204 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2205
2206SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2207 by Marc Sherman.
2208
0793e4ed
SC
2209SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2210
c58b88df
PH
2211PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2212 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2213
e7ad8a65 2214
7982096b
PH
2215Exim version 4.51
2216-----------------
2217
1a46a8c5
PH
2218TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2219 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2220
2f079f46 2221TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
2222
2223TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2224
2225PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2226 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2227
2228PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2229 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2230 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2231 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2232 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2233 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2234 file.
2235
2236PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2237 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2238 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2239 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2240 these two options.
2241
2242PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2243 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2244 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2245 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2246 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2247 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2248 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 2249 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
2250
2251PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2252 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2253
2254PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2255 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2256 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2257 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2258 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2259 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2260
2261PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2262 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2263 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2264 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2265
2266PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2267 Finch).
2268
2269PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2270 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 2271
49c2d5ea
PH
2272PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2273 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
2274 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2275 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2276 message.
49c2d5ea 2277
bf759a8b
PH
2278PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2279
83364d30
PH
2280PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2281 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2282
7999bbd7
PH
2283PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2284 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2285 to what was transported.)
2286
7dbf77c9
PH
2287TF/01 Added $received_time.
2288
74e0617f
PH
2289PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2290 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2291 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2292 spamd_address settings.
2293
2f079f46
PH
2294PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2295 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2296 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2297 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2298 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2299
8c841523
PH
2300PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2301
7766a4f0
PH
2302PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2303 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2304 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2305 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2306 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2307
8b417f2c
PH
2308PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2309 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2310
901f42cb
PH
2311PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2312 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2313 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2314 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2315 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2316 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2317 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2318 for failure.
2319
f9b9210e
PH
2320PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2321 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2322 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2323 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2324 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2325 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2326 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2327 "input=".
2328
54cdb463
PH
2329PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2330
cf00dad6
PH
2331PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2332 driver and ACL definitions.
2333
acb1b346
PH
2334PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2335 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2336
c5ddb310
PH
2337PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2338 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2339 understands it better than I do:
2340
2341 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2342 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2343
2344 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2345 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2346 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2347 => three warnings about OTP not working
2348 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2349
2350 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2351 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2352 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2353 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2354 for each call.)
2355 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2356 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2357
2358 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2359 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2360 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2361
31619da6
PH
2362PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2363 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2364 specified.
2365
bebaf0fc
PH
2366PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2367 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2368 "Linux".
2369
475fe28a
PH
2370PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2371 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2372 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2373
2374 warn !verify = sender
2375 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
2376
2377 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
2378 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
2379
7e8bec7a
PH
2380PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
2381
2382 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
2383 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
2384
2385 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
2386 nomenclature these days.)
2387
e4a89c47
PH
2388PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
2389 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
2390
5ca2a9a1
PH
2391PH/30 In these circumstances:
2392 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
2393 . First host does not offer TLS;
2394 . First host accepts first address;
2395 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
2396 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
2397 . Second host accepts second address.
2398 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
2399 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
2400 address.
7e8bec7a 2401
c688b954
PH
2402PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
2403 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
2404 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
2405 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
2406 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
2407
fed77020
PH
2408PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
2409 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
2410
7fe1560f
PH
2411PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
2412 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 2413
ebb6e6d5
PH
2414PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
2415 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
2416 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
2417
9c4e8f60
PH
2418PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
2419 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
2420 overlooked.
2421
2422PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
2423
d7174846
PH
2424PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
2425 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
2426 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
2427 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
2428 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
2429 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
2430 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
2431
2432 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
2433 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
2434 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
2435 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
2436 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
2437
2438 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
2439 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
2440 routed further.
2441
cfe75fc3
PH
2442PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
2443 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
2444 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
2445 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
2446 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
2447 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
2448
be22d70e
PH
2449PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
2450
0612b098
PH
2451PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
2452 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
2453 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
2454 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
2455 printable escape sequences.
2456
2e0c1448
PH
2457PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
2458 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
2459 body only.
2460
447d236c
PH
2461PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
2462 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
2463 are as follows:
2464
2465 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
2466 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
2467 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
2468 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
2469 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
2470
2471 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
2472 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
2473 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
2474
d20976dc
PH
2475PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
2476
f656d135
PH
2477PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
2478 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
2479 play with."
2480
2e2a30b4
PH
2481PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
2482 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
2483 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
2484 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
2485 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
2486 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
2487 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
2488 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
2489 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
2490 the log output.
2491
9176e9f0
PH
2492PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
2493 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
2494 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
2495 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
2496 "make".
2497
7982096b 2498
bbe902f0
PH
2499A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
2500----------------------------------------
2501
2502Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
2503changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
2504needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
2505in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
2506that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
2507release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
2508from 4.43.
2509
2510I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
25114.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
2512those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
2513historical information.
2514
2515
f7b63901 2516Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
2517-----------------
2518
5fe762f6
PH
2519 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
2520
139059f6 2521 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 2522 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 2523
7086e875
PH
2524 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
2525 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
2526 place.
2527
35af9f61
PH
2528 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
2529 filter fails to execute.
2530
b668c215
PH
2531 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
2532 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
2533 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
2534 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
2535 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
2536
a494b1e1
PH
2537 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
2538
2539 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
2540 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
2541 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
2542 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 2543
c5fcb476
PH
2544 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
2545 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
2546 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
2547 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
2548 control that does not make sense is encountered.
2549
69358f02
PH
2550 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
2551
5be20824
PH
255210. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
2553
eb2c0248
PH
255411. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
2555 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
2556 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
2557 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
2558
2a3eea10
PH
255912. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
2560 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
2561 sender verification.
2562
256313. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
2564 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
2565
23c7ff99
PH
256614. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
2567
4deaf07d
PH
256815. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
2569 connection timeout.
2570
926e1192
PH
257116. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
2572 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
2573
650edc6f
PH
257417. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
2575 the spool by the -Mrm option.
2576
2c7db3f5
PH
257718. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
2578 information about exactly what failed.
2579
3d235903
PH
258019. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
2581
7c7ad977
PH
258220. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
2583 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
2584 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
2585
981756db
PH
258621. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
2587 It is now set to "smtps".
2588
d4eb88df
PH
258922. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
2590 ignore_target_hosts.
2591
259223. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
2593 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
2594 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
2595 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
2596 "[x.x.x.x]".
2597
7d468ab8
PH
259824. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
2599 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
2600 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
2601
260225. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
2603 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
2604 wake it up if nothing else does.
2605
62c0818f
PH
260626. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
2607 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
2608 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
2609 end up negative.
2610
26034054
PH
261127. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
2612 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
2613
af66f652
PH
261428. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
2615
90af77f4
PH
261629. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
2617 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
2618 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
2619 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
2620 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
2621 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
2622 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
2623 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
2624
d8ef3577
PH
262530. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
2626 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
2627 than one IP address.
2628
5cb8cbc6
PH
262931. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
2630 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
2631 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
2632 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
2633
14702f5b
PH
263432. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
2635 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
2636 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
2637 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
2638 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
2639 1024 to 2048 bytes.
2640
063b1e99
PH
264133. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
2642 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
2643 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
2644 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
2645
652e1b65
PH
264634. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
2647 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
2648 respected.
2649
6f0c9a4f
PH
265035. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
2651 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
2652 $sender_host_address.
2653
33397d19
PH
265436. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
2655 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
2656 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
2657 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
2658 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
2659 very small.
2660
7bb56e1f
PH
266137. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
2662
2663 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
2664 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
2665
ea3bc19b
PH
2666 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
2667 just the host names, not the priorities.
2668
2669 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
2670 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
2671 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 2672
ea3bc19b 2673 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 2674 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 2675
0bcb2a0e
PH
267638. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
2677 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
2678 domain.
2679
2ac0e484
PH
268039. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
2681
4e1fde53
PH
268240. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
2683 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
2684
de365ded
PH
268541. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
2686 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
2687 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
2688
f05da2e8
PH
268942. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
2690
d6453af2
PH
269143. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
2692
f7b63901
PH
269344. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
2694
269545. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
2696 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
2697 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
2698 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
2699 because the tests only now provoked it.
2700
a444213a
PH
270146. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
2702 (this can affect the format of dates).
2703
0ec020ea
PH
270447. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
2705 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
2706 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
2707 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
2708
b1206957
PH
270948. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
2710
271149. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
2712 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
2713 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
2714 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
2715
26dd5a95
PH
271650. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
2717 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
2718 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
2719
343b2385
PH
272051. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
2721 autoreply.
2722
1c5466b9
PH
272352. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
2724 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
2725 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
2726 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
2727 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
2728 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
2729 is going on).
2730
55ee9ee3
PH
273153. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
2732 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
2733 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
2734 the line.
2735
d38f8232
PH
273654. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
2737 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
2738 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
2739
2740 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
2741 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
2742 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
2743 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
2744 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
2745 so I produce this patch..."
2746
3295e65b
PH
2747 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
2748 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
2749 is not defined.
2750
7102e136
PH
275155. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
2752 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
2753 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
2754 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 2755 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 2756
3ca0ba97
PH
275756. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
2758
c2bcbe20
PH
275957. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
2760 long debug lines gets shown.
2761
18ce445d
PH
276258. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
2763 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
2764
1f5b4c3d
PH
276559. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
2766
2767 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
2768 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
2769 of $primary_hostname.
2770
b975ba52
PH
277160. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
2772 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
2773 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
2774 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
2775 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
2776 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
2777 by change 4.50/55 above.
2778
2779 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
2780 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
2781 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
2782 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
2783 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
2784 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 2785 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
2786
278761. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
2788 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
2789 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 2790 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 2791
17ffcae7
PH
279262. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
2793 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
2794
d95f9fdb
PH
279563. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
2796 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
2797 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
2798 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
2799 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
2800
86b8287f
PH
280164. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
2802 This has been fixed.
2803
60dc5e56
PH
280465. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
2805 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
2806 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
2807 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
2808 the caching.)
2809
533244af
PH
281066. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
2811
a5a28604
PH
281267. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
2813 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
2814 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
2815 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
2816
7e634d24
PH
281768. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
2818 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
2819
3e11c26b
PH
282069. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
2821 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
2822 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
2823
6729cf78
PH
282470. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
2825 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
2826 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
2827 message there.
2828
00f00ca5
PH
282971. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
2830 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
2831 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
2832
c9bdd01c
PH
283372. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
2834 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
2835 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
2836 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
2837
d43194df
PH
283873. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
2839 during host lookups.
2840
fe5b5d0b
PH
284174. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
2842 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
2843
2844 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
2845
76a2d7ba
PH
284675. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
2847 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
2848 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
2849 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
2850 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
2851 background.
2852
285376. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
2854 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
2855
04f7d5b9
PH
285677. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
2857 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
2858 for the non-SMTP ACL.
2859
bc60667e
PH
286078. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
2861
bb6e88ff
PH
286279. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
2863 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
2864 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
2865 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
2866 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
2867 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
2868 process earlier.
2869
1e70f85b
PH
287080. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
2871 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
2872 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
2873 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
2874 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
2875
287681. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
2877 tables).
2878
4e01f9d6
PH
287982. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
2880
1ee1cef2
PH
288183. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
2882 "vacation" handling.
2883
6e2b4ccc
PH
288484. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
2885 OS variants using glibc.
2886
8e669ac1
PH
288785. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
2888
495ae4b0 2889
bbe902f0
PH
2890----------------------------------------------------
2891See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
2892----------------------------------------------------
2893
2894
2895Exim version 4.44
2896-----------------
2897
2898 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
2899 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
2900 transport
2901
2902 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
2903 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
2904 place.
2905
2906 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
2907 filter fails to execute.
2908
2909 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
2910 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
2911 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
2912 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
2913 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
2914
2915 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
2916 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
2917 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
2918 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
2919
2920 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
2921 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
2922 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
2923 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
2924 control that does not make sense is encountered.
2925
2926 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
2927
2928 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
2929 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
2930 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
2931 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
2932
2933 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
2934 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
2935 sender verification.
2936
293710. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
2938 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
2939
294011. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
2941 the spool by the -Mrm option.
2942
294312. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
2944 ignore_target_hosts.
2945
294613. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
2947 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
2948 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
2949 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
2950 "[x.x.x.x]".
2951
295214. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
2953 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
2954 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
2955
295615. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
2957 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
2958 wake it up if nothing else does.
2959
296016. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
2961 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
2962 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
2963 end up negative.
2964
296517. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
2966 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
2967
ea3a6f44 296818. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
2969
297019. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
2971 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
2972 empty pattern.
2973
297420. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
2975 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
2976 one IP address.
2977
ea3a6f44
NM
297821. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
2979 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
2980 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
2981 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
2982 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
2983 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 2984
ea3a6f44
NM
298522. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
2986 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
2987 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
2988
298923. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
2990 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
2991 $sender_host_address.
2992
299324. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
2994
ea3a6f44
NM
299525. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
2996 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
2997 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
2998
299926. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3000 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3001
ea3a6f44
NM
300227. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3003 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3004
ea3a6f44
NM
300528. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3006 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3007 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3008 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3009
301029. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3011 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3012 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3013
ea3a6f44
NM
301430. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3015 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3016 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3017 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3018
ea3a6f44
NM
301931. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3020 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3021 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3022
ea3a6f44
NM
302331. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3024 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3025
ea3a6f44
NM
302632. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3027 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3028 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3029 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3030 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3031 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3032 is going on).
bbe902f0 3033
ea3a6f44
NM
303433. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3035 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3036 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3037 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3038 CAN-2005-0021
3039
ea3a6f44
NM
304034. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3041 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3042 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3043 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3044 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3045 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3046 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3047
3048 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3049 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3050 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3051 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3052 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3053 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3054 CAN-2005-0021
3055
ea3a6f44
NM
305635. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3057 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3058 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3059 CAN-2005-0022
3060
ea3a6f44
NM
306136. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3062 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3063 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3064 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3065 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3066
ea3a6f44
NM
306737. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3068 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3069 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3070 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3071 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3072
ea3a6f44
NM
307338. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3074 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3075 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3076 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3077 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3078
3079
495ae4b0
PH
3080Exim version 4.43
3081-----------------
3082
3083 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3084 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3085 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3086 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3087 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3088 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3089 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3090
3091 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3092 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3093 the delivery.
3094
3095 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3096
3097 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3098
3099 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3100 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3101 to local_scan().
3102
3103 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3104 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3105 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3106 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3107 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3108
3109 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3110 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3111
3112 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3113
3114 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3115
311610. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3117 header_sender only.
3118
311911. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3120 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3121
312212. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3123 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3124 affecting debugging statements).
3125
312613. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3127
312814. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3129 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3130 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3131 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3132 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3133 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3134 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3135 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3136 after the received time, and all would be well.
3137
313815. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3139 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3140 condition in an expansion string.
3141
314216. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3143
314417. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3145 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3146 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3147 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3148 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3149 job under whatever limits there are.
3150
315118. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3152
315319. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3154 space).
3155
315620. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3157 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3158 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3159 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3160 return path is set.
3161
316221. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3163 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3164 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3165 binary data in such strings.
3166
316722. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3168
316923. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3170 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3171 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3172 failure, which is pointless.
3173
317424. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3175
317625. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3177
317826. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3179 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3180 Sender: header lines.
3181
318227. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3183 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3184 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3185
318628. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3187 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3188 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3189 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3190 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3191 happens.
3192
319329. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3194 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3195 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3196 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3197 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3198
319930. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3200 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3201 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3202 1024.
3203
320431. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3205 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3206
320732. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3208 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3209
321033. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3211
321232. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3213
321433. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3215
321634. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3217 syntax error.
3218
321935. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3220
322136. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3222
322337. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3224 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3225 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3226 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3227
322838. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3229 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3230
3231
3232Exim version 4.42
3233-----------------
3234
3235 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3236 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3237 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3238 it was not quoted.
3239 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3240 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3241 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3242 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3243 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3244 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3245
3246 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3247 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3248 verification failure".
3249
3250 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3251 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3252 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3253 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3254
3255 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3256 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3257 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3258 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3259 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3260 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3261 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3262 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3263 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3264 treated as a timeout.
3265
3266 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3267 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3268 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3269 not set for Exim filters).
3270
3271 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3272 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3273 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3274
3275 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3276
3277 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3278 try to make them clearer.
3279
3280 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3281 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3282
3283 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3284
3285 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3286
328710. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3288 only the Cygwin environment.
3289
329011. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3291 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3292 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3293 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3294 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
3295
329612. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
3297 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
3298 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
3299 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
3300 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
3301 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
3302 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
3303
330413. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
3305 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
3306
330714. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
3308
3309 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
3310 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
3311 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
3312
3313 To: susanne@some.where
3314
3315 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
3316 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
3317 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
3318 of addresses in From: header lines).
3319
3320 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
3321 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
3322 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
3323
3324 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
3325 treated as non-personal.
3326
3327 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
3328 because it now seems ill-conceived.
3329
333015. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
3331
333216. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
3333
333417. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
3335 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
3336 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
3337
333818. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
3339 ACL and the local_scan() function.
3340
334119. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
3342 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
3343 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
3344 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
3345 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
3346 (I found it when inspecting the code).
3347
334820. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
3349 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
3350 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
3351 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
3352 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
3353 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
3354 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
3355 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
3356
3357 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
3358
335921. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
3360 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
3361
336222. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
3363 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
3364 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
3365
336623. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
3367 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
3368
336924. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
3370 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
3371 rather than long int.
3372
337325. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3374
337526. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
3376
3377
3378Exim version 4.41
3379-----------------
3380
3381 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
3382 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
3383 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
3384 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
3385 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
3386 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
3387
3388
3389Exim version 4.40
3390-----------------
3391
3392 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
3393 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
3394
3395 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
3396 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
3397 socklen_t is defined.
3398
3399 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
3400 always exist.
3401
3402 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
3403 configured.
3404
3405 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
3406 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
3407 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
3408 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
3409 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
3410
3411 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
3412 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
3413 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
3414 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
3415
3416 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
3417 of flapping under certain conditions.
3418
3419 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
3420 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
3421 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
3422
3423 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3424
342510. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
3426
342711. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
3428 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
3429 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
3430 the duration of the SMTP connection.
3431
343212. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
3433 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
3434 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
3435 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
3436 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
3437 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
3438 preserved with the message after it was received.
3439
344013. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
3441 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
3442 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
3443 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
3444 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
3445 test suite worked just fine.
3446
344714. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
3448 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
3449 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
3450
345115. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
3452 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
3453 string.
3454
345516. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
3456 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
3457 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
3458 does not fully solve it.
3459