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3Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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6Exim version 4.72
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8
9JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength, $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and typos
10
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11JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue (Finput)
12
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13NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
14 Patch from Alain Williams
15
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16NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
17
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18NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
19 Patch from Andreas Metzler
20
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21NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
22 Patch from Kirill Miazine
23
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24NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
25
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26JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
27
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28NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
29 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg
30
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31TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
32
33TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
34
35MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
36 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
37 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
38
39
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41Exim version 4.71
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43
44TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body
45
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46NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
47
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48NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
49
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50NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
51
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52NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
53
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55Exim version 4.70
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57
cdd3bb85 58TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 59 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
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60
61TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
62 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
63 Hirsch)
64
65TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
66 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 67 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
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69TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
70 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
71
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72NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
73 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
74 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
75 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
76
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77NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
78 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
79 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine
80
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81TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
82
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83TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
84
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85NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
86 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima
87
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88NM/04 Bugzilla 667: close socket used by dovecot authenticator
89
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90TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
91 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
92 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
93 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
94
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95NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
96 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt
97
23510047 98TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 99
7d8eec3a 100NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000
5f28a6e8 101
7d8eec3a 102NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
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103 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki
104
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105TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
106 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 107
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108TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
109 that they are available at delivery time.
110
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111TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
112
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113TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
114 incoming_port log selectors.
115
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116TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
117 setting expands to an empty string.
118
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119NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
120 Patch provided by Phil Pennock
121
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122NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
123 Patch provided by Richard Godbee
124
4f054c63 125NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 126 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 127
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128NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format
129 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak
130
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131NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to accept()
132 Patch provided by Maxim Dounin
133
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134NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
135 Patch provided by Phil Pennock
136
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137NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
138
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139NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
140 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch
141
d5c39246 142NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
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143 Patch provided by Dean Brooks
144
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145TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
146
8f3414a1 147NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
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148 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler
149
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150NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
151
152NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 153
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154NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in lsearch
155
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156NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting
157 Patch provided by Phil Pennock
158
159NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support
160 Patch provided by Phil Pennock
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162NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken clients
163 Patch provided by Phil Pennock
164
7496b417 165NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date
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166 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch
167
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168NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats
169 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann
170
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171NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid
172 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann
173
f4cd9433 174NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file
1da77999 175 plus update to original patch.
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177NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit
dc988b7e 178
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179NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection
180 Patch provided by David Brownlee
181
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182NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging
183
184NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes
ec5a421b 185
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186NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes
187
0cc09577 188NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix
51473862 189
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190NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
191 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree
192
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193NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix
194 Patch by Todd Rinaldo
195
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196NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mistmatches
197 Patch by Serge Demonchaux
198
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199NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes
200 Patch by Jakob Hirsch
201
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202NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code
203
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204NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling
205
206NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed
96535b98 207
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208NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script
209
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211Exim version 4.69
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214TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
215 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
216 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
217
218 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
219 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
220 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
221 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
222 build errors in sieve.c.
223
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224NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
225 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
226 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
227
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228SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
229
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230NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr
231
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232NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp
233
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234NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall)
235
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237Exim version 4.68
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239
240PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
241
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242PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
243 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
244 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
245 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
246 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
247 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
248 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
249 for iplsearch lookups.
250
251 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
252 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
253 previously such lookups could never work.
254
255 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
256 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
257 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
258
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259TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
260 version.
261
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262MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
263 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
264 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
265 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
266 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
267 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
268
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269TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
270 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
271
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272MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
273 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
274 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
275 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
276 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
277 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
278
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279PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
280 local_scan API.
281
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282PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
283
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284PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
285 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
286 encrypted.
287
288PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
289 by clients under certain conditions.
290
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291PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
292 "_responses" off the end of the name.
293
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294PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
295
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296PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
297 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
298
299PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
300
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301PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
302
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303PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
304
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305PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
306 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
307
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308PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
309
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310PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
311 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
312
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313PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
314
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315PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
316
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317PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
318 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
319 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
320 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 321
ddea74fa 322PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
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323 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
324 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
325
ddea74fa 326PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
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327 and InterBase are left for another time.)
328
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329PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
330
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331PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
332
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333PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
334
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335PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
336 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
337 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
338
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342
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343MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
344 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
345 Jan Srzednicki.
346
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347PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
348 issue a MAIL command.
349
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350PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
351
352 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
353
354 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
355 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
356 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
357 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
358 item. This has been fixed.
359
360PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
361 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
362
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363PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
364 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
365
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366PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
367 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
368 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
369
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370SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
371
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372PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
373 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
374 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
375 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
376 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
377
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378MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
379 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
380 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
381
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382PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
383 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
384 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
385 the server_setid option was incorrect.
386
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387PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
388
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389PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
390
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391PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
392 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
393 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
394 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
395 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
396
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397PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
398
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399PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
400 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
401 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
402 values).
403
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404PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
405
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406PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
407
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408PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
409
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410PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
411
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412PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
413
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414PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
415 no_callout_flush is set.
416
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417PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
418 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
419 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
420 fixed.
421
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422PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
423
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424PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
425 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
426 other ACL rejections are.
427
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428PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
429 with slight modification.
430
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431PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
432 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
433
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434PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
435 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
436 connection.
437
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438PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
439 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
440
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441SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
442
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443PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
444 expansion side effects.
445
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446PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
447 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
448 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
449 be the same.
450
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451MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
452 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
453 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
454
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455PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
456 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
457 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
458 were accidentally chopped off.
459
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460PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
461 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
462 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
463 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
464 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
465 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
466 pipelining has not been advertised.
467
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468PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
469
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470PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
471 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
472 This has been fixed.
473
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474PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
475 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
476 reported on Solaris.
477
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478PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
479 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
480 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
481 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
482 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
483 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
484 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
485
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486PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
487 cpus.
488
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489PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
490
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491PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
492
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493PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
494 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
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495 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
496 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
497 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
498 criteria to be more general.
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500PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
501 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
502 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
503 host_all_ignored option.
504
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505PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
506 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
507 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
508 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
509 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
510 is what is supposed to happen).
511
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512PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
513 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
514 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
515 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
516 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
517 uses the Exim user.
518
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519PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
520 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
521 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
522 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
523 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
524 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
525 users.
526
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527PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
528
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529SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
530 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
531 (Jez Hancock).
532 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
533 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
534
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535SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
536
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537PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
538
58eb016e 539PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
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540 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
541 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
542 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
543 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
544 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
545 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
546 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 547 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
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548 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
549 least in a lot of common cases.
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551PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
552 advertised in response to EHLO.
553
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557
558PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
559 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
560
561 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
562 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
563
564 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
565 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
566 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
567
568 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
569 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
570 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
571 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
572 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
573
574
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577
578TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
579 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
580 versions. (#438)
581
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582MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
583 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
584 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
585
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586PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
587 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
588 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
589 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
590 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
591 rather than extend the field.
592
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597TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
598 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
599 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
600 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
601 these files.
602
603TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
604 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
605 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
606
607TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
608 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
609 hence the _LINUX specificness.
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611TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
612 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
613 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
614 in the field name.
615
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616PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
617 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
618 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
619 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
620 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
621 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
622 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
623 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
624 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
625 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
626 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
627
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628PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
629 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
630
631PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
632 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
633 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
634 ignores EPIPE as well.
635
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636PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
637 (quoted-printable decoding).
638
cc2ed8f7 639PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 640 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
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642PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
643
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644PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
645
646PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
647
38a0a95f 648PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 649 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
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651JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
652 in 4.64-PH/09.
653
654JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
655 miscellaneous code fixes
656
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657PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
658 rejections.
659
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660PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
661 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
662 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
663 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
664 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
665 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
666 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
667 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 668
14aa5a05 669PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 670 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
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671 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
672 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
673 function.
674 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
675 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
676 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
677 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
678 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
679 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
680 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
681 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
682 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
683
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684PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
685 decoding.
686
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687PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
688 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
689 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
690 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
691 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
692 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
693 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
694 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
695
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696PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
697 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
698 list.
699
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700PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
701 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
702 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
703 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
704 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
705 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
706 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
707 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
708 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
709 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
710 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
711 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
712 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
713
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714PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
715 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
716 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
717 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
718 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
719 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
720 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
721
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722PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
723 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
724 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
725 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
726 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
727 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
728 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
729 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
730 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
731 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
732
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733PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
734 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
735 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
736 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
737 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
738
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739PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
740 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
741 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
742 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
743 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
744 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
745 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
746
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747PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
748 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
749 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
750 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
751 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
752 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
753 been verified.
754
48da4259 755PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
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756 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
757 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
758 and authorization.)
759
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760PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
761 if any retry times were supplied.
762
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763PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
764 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
765 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
766
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767PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
768
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769PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
770
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771PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
772 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
773 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
774 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
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775 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
776 before) are ignored.
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778PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
779 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
780
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781PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
782 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
783 committing the later change.]
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784
785PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
786 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
787 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
788 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
789 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
790 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
791 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
792 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
793 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
794
795 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
796 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
797 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
798 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
799 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
800 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
801 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
802 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
803 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
804
805 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
806 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
807 hammering the server.
808
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809PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
810 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
811
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812PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
813
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814PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
815 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
816 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
817
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818PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
819 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
820 one case where this was not true.
821
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822PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
823 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
824 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
825 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
826 fails.
827
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828PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
829 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
830 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
831 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
832 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
833 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
834 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
835 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
836 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
837 smtp transport.
838
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839PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
840 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
841 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
842 same for both kinds of LMTP.
843
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844PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
845 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
846
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847PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
848 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
849 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
850
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851PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
852
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853PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
854
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855PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
856
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857PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
858 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
859 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
860 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
861
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862PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
863 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
864
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865PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
866 be meaningful with "accept".
867
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868SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
869 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
870
871SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
872 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
873 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
874
875SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
876 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
877 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
878 there is data to show.
879 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
880
881SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
882 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
883 as well as the number of messages.
884
885SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
886 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
887 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
888
889SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
890 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
891 have a flag are now skipped.
892
893SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
894 Added the -emptyok flag.
895
896SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
897 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
898
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899JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
900 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
901 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
902
903JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
904 match 4.64-PH/13
905
906JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
907 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
908
909JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
910
911JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
912 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
913
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914PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
915
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916PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
917 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
918 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
919 contravention of the specifications.
920
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921PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
922 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
923 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 924
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925PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
926 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
927 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
928
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929PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
930
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931MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
932 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
933 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
934 some point in the past.
935
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936PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
937 transport during callout processing was broken.
938
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939PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
940 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
941
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942PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
943 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
944
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945PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
946 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
947
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948PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
949
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953
954SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
955 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
956
957SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
958 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
959 there is data to show.
960 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
961
962SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
963 as the number of messages in eximstats.
964
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965TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
966 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
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968TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
969 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
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971TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
972 submissions from trusted users.
973
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974TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
975 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
976
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977TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
978 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
979 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
980 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
981 there is now a framework to start from.
982
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983PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
984 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
985 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
986
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987PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
988
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989PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
990
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991PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
992
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993PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
994 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
995 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
996
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997PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
998 libradius.
999
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1000PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1001 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1002 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1003
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1004PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1005 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1006 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1007 its arguments.
1008
dbcef0ea
PH
1009PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1010 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1011 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1012 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1013 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1014
25257489
PH
1015PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1016 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1017
c816d124
PH
1018PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1019
a9ccd69a
PH
1020PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1021 operations in malware.c.
1022
75fa1910
PH
1023PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1024 signatures.
1025
a7d7aa58
PH
1026PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1027 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1028 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1029 all.
1030
42119b09
PH
1031PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1032 statements to "add_header".
1033
41609df5
PH
1034PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1035 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1036
a5bd321b
PH
1037PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1038 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1039 latter.
1040
e85a7ad5 1041PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1042 so that it is now:
1043
e85a7ad5
PH
1044 ${if or { \
1045 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1046 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1047 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1048 }{no}{yes}}
1049
e85a7ad5
PH
1050 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1051 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1052
d8fe1c03
PH
1053PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1054 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1055
16282d2b
PH
1056PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1057 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1058 any possible encoding problems.
1059
35d40a98
PH
1060PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1061 but not after initializing Perl.
1062
034d99ab
PH
1063PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1064 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1065 apparently, which is not desirable.
1066
6ec97b1b
PH
1067PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1068 queries.
1069
e22ca4ac
JJ
1070JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1071 --not options
1072
1073JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1074
33d73e3b
PH
1075PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1076 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1077 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1078 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1079
9ecb03f3
PH
1080PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1081 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1082 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1083
084efe8d
PH
1084PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1085 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1086 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1087 0.12.
1088
366fc9f0
PH
1089PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1090 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1091 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1092 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1093 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1094
c59f5781 1095
c887c79e
TF
1096Exim version 4.62
1097-----------------
1098
1099TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1100 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1101
1cce3af8
PH
1102PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1103 patch).
1104
afb3eaaf
PH
1105PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1106 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1107 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1108 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1109 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1110 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1111 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1112 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1113 451 error is used.
1114
e173618b
PH
1115PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1116
dd16e114
PH
1117PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1118 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1119 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1120
f7fd3850
PH
1121PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1122 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1123 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1124 odd errors.
1125
d87df92c
PH
1126PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1127 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1128
7e9f683d
PH
1129PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1130 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1131 option (which defaults to 0600).
1132
bfad5236
PH
1133PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1134
01c490df
PH
1135PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1136 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1137 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1138 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1139 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1140 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1141 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1142
d6629cdc
PH
1143PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1144
1cce3af8 1145
214e2000
PH
1146Exim version 4.61
1147-----------------
1148
1149PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1150 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1151 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1152 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1153 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1154 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1155 addresses as local.
1156
f9daeae0
PH
1157PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1158 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1159
7e66e54d
PH
1160PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1161
c8ea1597
PH
1162PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1163 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1164 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1165 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1166 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1167 grumble.
1168
911f6fde
PH
1169PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1170 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1171
47ca6d6c
PH
1172PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1173 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1174 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1175 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1176 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1177
ed0e9820
PH
1178PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1179 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1180 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1181 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1182
eff37e47
PH
1183PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1184 be the same on different OS.
1185
1921d2ea
PH
1186PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1187 testing.
1188
b3f69ca8
JJ
1189JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1190 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1191
1192JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1193 in 4.61-PH/06
1194
424a1c63
PH
1195PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1196 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1197 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1198 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1199 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1200 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1201 bounce message.
1202
7a100415
PH
1203PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1204 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1205 when Exim was called.
1206
19b9dc85
PH
1207PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1208 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1209
309bd837
PH
1210PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1211 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1212 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1213 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1214
59e82a2a
PH
1215PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1216 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1217 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1218 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1219 changes:
1220
1221 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1222 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1223 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1224
1225 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1226 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1227 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1228
9edc04ce
PH
1229PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1230 feature).
1231
1349e1e5
PH
1232PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1233 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1234 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1235 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1236 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1237 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1238 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1239 values from the SRV records were lost.
1240
ea49d0e1
PH
1241PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1242 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1243 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1244
064a94c9
PH
1245PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1246 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1247 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1248
727071f8
PH
1249PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1250 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1251 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1252 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1253 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1254 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1255 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1256 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1257 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 1258 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 1259
f78eb7c6
PH
1260PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1261 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1262 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1263
21c28500
PH
1264PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1265 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1266
1267PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1268 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1269 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1270 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1271 is given.
1272
1688f43b
PH
1273PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1274 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1275 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1276
1277PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1278 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1279 PH/23 above applies.
1280
9675b384
PH
1281PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1282 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1283 (for which there is an explicit test).
1284
6a3f1455
PH
1285PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1286
dac79d3e
PH
1287PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1288 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1289 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1290 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1291 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 1292
5977a0b3
PH
1293PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1294 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1295 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1296 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1297
c91535f3
PH
1298PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1299 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1300 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1301
0d46a8c8
PH
1302PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1303
278c6e6c
PH
1304PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1305
2cbb4081
PH
1306PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1307 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1308 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1309
3eef829e
PH
1310PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1311 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1312 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1313 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1314 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1315
1ab95fa6
PH
1316PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1317 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1318 the message gets confusing).
1319
230205fc
PH
1320PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1321 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
1322 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
1323 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
1324
75e0e026
PH
1325PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
1326 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
1327 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
1328 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
1329 same order.
1330
1331PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
1332 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
1333 the different processes.
1334
145396a6
PH
1335PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
1336
3cd34f13
PH
1337PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
1338
11121d3d
JJ
1339JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
1340 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
1341
1342JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
1343 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
1344
1345JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
1346 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
1347 messages matching specified criteria.
1348
8def5aaf
PH
1349PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
1350
929ba01c
PH
1351PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
1352 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
1353
2632889e
PH
1354PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
1355 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
1356 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
1357 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
1358 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
1359 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
1360 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
1361 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
1362 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
1363 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
1364
944a9c55
PH
1365PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
1366 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
1367 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
1368
4a23603b
PH
1369PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
1370
4730f942
PH
1371PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
1372 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
1373 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
1374 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
1375 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
1376 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
1377 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
1378 the variable.
1379
30dba1e6
PH
1380PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
1381 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
1382
382afc6b
PH
1383PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
1384
a86229cf
PH
1385PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
1386
50c99ba6
PH
1387PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1388
d35e429d
PH
1389PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
1390 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
1391 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
1392 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
1393 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
1394 size of the count of files.
1395
f90d018c
PH
1396PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
1397
75def545
PH
1398PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
1399 used in LMTP mode:
1400
1401 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
1402 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
1403 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
1404 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
1405
1406 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
1407 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
1408 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
1409
1410PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
1411 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
1412 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
1413 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
1414 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
1415
c46782ef
PH
1416PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
1417 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
1418
71fafd95
PH
1419PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
1420 will now be deprecated.
1421
2c5db4fd
PH
1422PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
1423
9cf6b11a
JJ
1424JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
1425 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
1426 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
1427
1428JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
1429 with very large, slow to parse queues
1430
1431JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
1432
1433JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
1434
898d150f
PH
1435PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
1436 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
1437 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
1438 SMTP output lines.
1439
46218253
PH
1440PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
1441 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
1442 Sieve code now uses this.
1443
e97957bc
PH
1444PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
1445 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
1446
81e509d7
PH
1447PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
1448 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
1449
3d240ff7
PH
1450PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
1451
b37c4101
PH
1452PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
1453 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
1454 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
1455 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
1456 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
1457
79378e0f
PH
1458PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
1459 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
1460 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
1461 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
1462
e49c7bb4
PH
1463PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
1464
d114ec46
PH
1465PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
1466
f3d7df6c
PH
1467PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
1468 is preferred over IPv4.
1469
715ab376
PH
1470PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
1471 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
1472 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
1473 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
1474 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
1475 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
1476 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
1477
6b31b150
PH
1478PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
1479 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
1480 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
1481
1482PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
1483
d515a917
PH
1484PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
1485 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
1486 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
1487 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
1488 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
1489 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
1490 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
1491 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
1492 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
1493 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
1494 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
1495
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1496PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
1497 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
1498 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
1499
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1502-----------------
1503
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1504PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
1505
1506 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
1507 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
1508
1509 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
1510 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
1511 statements are most likely to be submissions.
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1513PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
1514
1515 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
1516 not a single digit.
1517
1518 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
1519 string.
1520
1521 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
1522 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
1523 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
1524 silly things.
1525
1526 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
1527 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
1528
1529 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
1530 inside the third argument.
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1532PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
1533 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
1534 "/bin:/usr/bin".
1535
f174f16e
PH
1536PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
1537 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 1538
c25242d7
PH
1539PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
1540 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
1541
1542 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
1543
1544 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
1545 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
1546 this:
1547
1548 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
1549
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PH
1550PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
1551 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
1552 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
1553 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
1554 identical. For example:
1555
1556 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
1557
1558 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
1559 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
1560 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
1561
d7ffbc12
PH
1562PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
1563 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
1564 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
1565 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
1566
9f526266
PH
1567PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
1568 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
1569 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
1570 message.
1571
87fcc8b9
PH
1572PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
1573
1574 o fixes some comments
1575 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
1576 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
1577 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
1578 and documents the missing references header update
1579
1580 and most important:
1581
1582 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
1583 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
1584 result)
1585
456682f5
PH
1586PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
1587 Electronic Mail") by including:
1588
1589 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
1590
1591 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
1592 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
1593 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
1594 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
1595 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
1596
1597 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
1598
1599 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
1600
1601 The auto-replied keyword:
1602
1603 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
1604 message by an automatic process,
1605
1606 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
1607
1608 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
1609 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
1610
1611 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
1612 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
1613 other messages.
1614
3e46c1aa
PH
1615PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
1616 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 1617
49826d12
PH
1618PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
1619
eba0c039
PH
1620PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
1621 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
1622 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
1623
a0d6ba8a
PH
1624PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
1625 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
1626 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
1627
f0917727
PH
1628PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
1629 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
1630 and treats the condition as false.
1631
096fee00
PH
1632PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
1633
024bd3c2
PH
1634PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
1635 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
1636 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
1637 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
1638 not changing the active code.
1639
1640 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
1641 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
1642
1643 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
1644 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
1645
df199fec
PH
1646PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
1647 (Bugzilla #53).
1648
d27f1df3
PH
1649PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
1650 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
1651 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
1652 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
1653 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
1654 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
1655 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
1656 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
1657 the text comparison.
1658
96776534
PH
1659PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
1660 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
1661 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
1662 The same fix has been applied.
1663
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1666-----------------
1667
1668PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
1669 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
1670 It now does.
1671
99a4b039
PH
1672PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
1673 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
1674
1675PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
1676
4b233853
PH
1677PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
1678 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
1679 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
1680 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
1681 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
1682
8857ccfd
PH
1683TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
1684 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
1685 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
1686 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
1687 or /domain=).
1688
433a2980
PH
1689PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
1690 testing suite.
1691
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1694Exim version 4.53
1695-----------------
1696
1697TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
1698 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
1699
13b685f9
PH
1700PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
1701
395ff96d
PH
1702PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
1703
5b68f6e4
PH
1704PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
1705 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
1706 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
1707
1ab52c69
PH
1708PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
1709 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
1710 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
1711
b07e6aa3
PH
1712PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
1713 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
1714 operating systems.
1715
254e032f
PH
1716PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
1717 ${stat: expansion item.
1718
3af76a81
PH
1719PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
1720 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
1721
2548ba04
PH
1722PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
1723 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
1724 file for comments.
1725
b6c6011d
PH
1726PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
1727
cf39cf57
PH
1728PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
1729 setting.
1730
f1513293
PH
1731PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
1732 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
1733
727549a4
PH
1734TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
1735
af46795e
PH
1736PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
1737 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
1738 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
1739 the end of the subprocess.
1740
d7b47fd0
PH
1741PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
1742 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
1743 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
1744 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
1745 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
1746
ee744174
JJ
1747JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
1748
b582ab87
PH
1749TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
1750
41a13e0a
PH
1751PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
1752 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
1753
f625cc5a
PH
1754PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
1755
1756PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
1757
21f7af35
PH
1758PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
1759 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
1760 HP-UX compiler.
1761
31480e42
PH
1762PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
1763
2d280592
PH
1764PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
1765 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
1766 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
1767
7cd1141b
PH
1768PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
1769 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
1770
1771PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
1772 host errors such as "Connection refused".
1773
750af86e
PH
1774PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
1775 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
1776
1777 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
1778 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
1779
1780 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
1781 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
1782 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
1783 contributed by a Radius user.
1784
1785PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
1786 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
1787
4304270b
TK
1788TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
1789 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
1790
750af86e
PH
1791PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
1792 available.
1793
64ffc24f
PH
1794PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
1795 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
1796 received.
1797
5dd9625b
PH
1798PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
1799 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
1800 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
1801 header lines when this was not necessary.
1802
5591031b
PH
1803PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
1804
ba18e66a
PH
1805PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
1806 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
1807 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
1808 exists".
1809
9cec981f
PH
1810PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
1811 -bV or -d is used.
1812
aa2b5c79
PH
1813PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
1814 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
1815 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
1816 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 1817
48a53b7f
PH
1818PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
1819
1c59d63b
PH
1820PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
1821
671012da
TK
1822TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
1823
1509d3a8
PH
1824PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
1825
1826PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
1827 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
1828 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
1829 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
1830 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
1831 settings.
1832
1833PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
1834
2fe1a124
PH
1835PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
1836 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
1837 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
1838 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
1839 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
1840 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
1841 which is clearly wrong.
1842
8800895a
PH
1843PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
1844
ccfdb010
PH
1845PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
1846 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
1847 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
1848 subsequently added.
1849
1130bfb0
PH
1850PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
1851 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
1852
ebcb507f
PH
1853PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
1854
c35e155c
PH
1855PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
1856 the "build-* directories that it finds.
1857
95d1f782
PH
1858PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
1859 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
1860
fd6de02e
PH
1861PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
1862 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
1863
58de37c5
PH
1864PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
1865 recipients, not senders.
1866
261cf466
TF
1867TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
1868 the ratelimit ACL was added.
1869
3ee512ff
PH
1870PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
1871
e08c430f
PH
1872PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
1873
bef5a11f
PH
1874PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
1875 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
1876 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
1877 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
1878
7546de58
TF
1879TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
1880
e5d5a95f
TF
1881TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
1882 clock is set back in time.
1883
2e88a017
TF
1884TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
1885 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
1886
a5f65aa4
TF
1887TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
1888 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
1889
e7726cbf
PH
1890PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
1891 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
1892 (see PH/47 above).
1893
a7fdad5b
TF
1894TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
1895 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
1896 header rewrites.
1897
6af56900
PH
1898PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
1899 type ("H").
1900
0925ede6
PH
1901PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
1902
66afa403
TF
1903TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
1904 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
1905 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
1906
0154e85a
TF
1907TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
1908 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
1909 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
1910 helo verification defer as a failure.
1911
16f12c76
PH
1912PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
1913 actual error message.
1914
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1916Exim version 4.52
1917-----------------
1918
1919TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
1920
22c3b60b
PH
1921PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
1922 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
1923 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
1924 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
1925
06a9b4b5
PH
1926TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
1927
c1ac6996
PH
1928PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
1929 can still be requested.
1930
9c7a242c
PH
1931PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
1932 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
1933 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
1934 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
1935
87ba3f5f
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1936TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
1937 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
1938 circumstances, but probably never did.
1939
1940PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
1941 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
1942 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
1943 in the header line.
1944
29aba418
TF
1945TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
1946
fe0dab11
TF
1947TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
1948 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 1949
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1950TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
1951
1952TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
1953
415c8f3b
PH
1954PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
1955 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
1956 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
1957 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
1958 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
1959 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 1960
958541e9
PH
1961PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
1962 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
1963 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
1964 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
1965 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
1966 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
1967
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1968TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
1969 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
1970
2a4be8f9
PH
1971PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
1972 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
1973
1cba11c5
SC
1974SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
1975 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
1976
1977SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
1978
1979SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
1980
1981SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
1982
1983SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
1984
1985SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
1986
1987SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
1988
1005d00e
TK
1989TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
1990
1991TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
1992 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
1993 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
1994
1995TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
1996 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
1997 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
1998 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
1999
9b4768fa
PH
2000PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2001 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2002 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2003
2004PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2005 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2006 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2007 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2008
0d7eb84a
PH
2009PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2010 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2011 to be made).
2012
2013PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2014 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2015 should work with maildirs and everything.
2016
40727bee
TK
2017TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2018 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2019
554d2369
TF
2020TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2021 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2022
1f922db1
PH
2023PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2024 function for BDB 4.3.
2025
ef213c3b
PH
2026PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2027
8ac170f3
PH
2028PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2029 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2030 involved.
2031
b1c749bb
PH
2032PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2033 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2034 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2035 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2036 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2037 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2038
4aac9b49
PH
2039PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2040 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2041 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2042 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2043 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2044 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2045 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2046 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2047
294520c8
TK
2048TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2049 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2050 details.
2051
5bd022fe
PH
2052PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2053 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2054
90e9ce59
PH
2055PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2056 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2057 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2058 test. It is now used for both.
2059
5ea81592
PH
2060PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2061 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2062 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2063 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2064 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2065 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2066
c6c2dc1d
PH
2067PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2068 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2069 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2070 string_vformat().
2071
fffffe4c
PH
2072PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2073 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2074 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 2075
9a26b6b2
PH
2076PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2077 experimental DomainKeys support:
2078
2079 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2080 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2081 the control was given.
2082
2083 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2084
4aee0225
PH
2085PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2086
32d668a5
PH
2087PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2088
8187c3f3
PH
2089PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2090 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2091 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2092 db.h files).
2093
ff790e47 2094PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
2095 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2096 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2097 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2098 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2099 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2100 course.
ff790e47 2101
5417f6d1
PH
2102PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2103 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2104 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2105 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2106 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2107 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2108
59cf8544
PH
2109PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2110 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2111 do -d+all out of habit.
2112
e7ad8a65
PH
2113PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2114 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2115 x86_64 Fedora Core.
2116
ade42478
PH
2117PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2118 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2119 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2120 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2121 record types that Exim uses.
2122
182ad5cf
PH
2123PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2124 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2125 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2126 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2127 non-existent file that was broken.
2128
b0d9fc80
TK
2129TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2130 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2131
2132TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2133 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2134 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2135
2136TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2137
47c7a64a
PH
2138PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2139 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2140 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2141 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2142 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2143 same time.
2144
a388bce4
SC
2145SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2146 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2147 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2148 at a slight CPU cost.
2149
2150SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2151 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2152
2153SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2154 by Marc Sherman.
2155
0793e4ed
SC
2156SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2157
c58b88df
PH
2158PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2159 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2160
e7ad8a65 2161
7982096b
PH
2162Exim version 4.51
2163-----------------
2164
1a46a8c5
PH
2165TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2166 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2167
2f079f46 2168TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
2169
2170TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2171
2172PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2173 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2174
2175PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2176 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2177 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2178 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2179 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2180 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2181 file.
2182
2183PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2184 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2185 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2186 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2187 these two options.
2188
2189PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2190 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2191 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2192 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2193 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2194 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2195 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 2196 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
2197
2198PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2199 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2200
2201PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2202 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2203 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2204 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2205 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2206 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2207
2208PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2209 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2210 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2211 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2212
2213PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2214 Finch).
2215
2216PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2217 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 2218
49c2d5ea
PH
2219PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2220 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
2221 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2222 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2223 message.
49c2d5ea 2224
bf759a8b
PH
2225PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2226
83364d30
PH
2227PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2228 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2229
7999bbd7
PH
2230PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2231 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2232 to what was transported.)
2233
7dbf77c9
PH
2234TF/01 Added $received_time.
2235
74e0617f
PH
2236PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2237 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2238 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2239 spamd_address settings.
2240
2f079f46
PH
2241PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2242 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2243 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2244 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2245 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2246
8c841523
PH
2247PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2248
7766a4f0
PH
2249PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2250 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2251 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2252 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2253 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2254
8b417f2c
PH
2255PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2256 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2257
901f42cb
PH
2258PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2259 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2260 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2261 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2262 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2263 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2264 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2265 for failure.
2266
f9b9210e
PH
2267PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2268 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2269 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2270 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2271 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2272 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2273 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2274 "input=".
2275
54cdb463
PH
2276PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2277
cf00dad6
PH
2278PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2279 driver and ACL definitions.
2280
acb1b346
PH
2281PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2282 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2283
c5ddb310
PH
2284PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2285 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2286 understands it better than I do:
2287
2288 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2289 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2290
2291 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2292 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2293 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2294 => three warnings about OTP not working
2295 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2296
2297 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2298 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2299 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2300 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2301 for each call.)
2302 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2303 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2304
2305 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2306 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2307 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2308
31619da6
PH
2309PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2310 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2311 specified.
2312
bebaf0fc
PH
2313PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2314 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2315 "Linux".
2316
475fe28a
PH
2317PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2318 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2319 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2320
2321 warn !verify = sender
2322 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
2323
2324 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
2325 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
2326
7e8bec7a
PH
2327PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
2328
2329 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
2330 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
2331
2332 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
2333 nomenclature these days.)
2334
e4a89c47
PH
2335PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
2336 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
2337
5ca2a9a1
PH
2338PH/30 In these circumstances:
2339 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
2340 . First host does not offer TLS;
2341 . First host accepts first address;
2342 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
2343 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
2344 . Second host accepts second address.
2345 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
2346 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
2347 address.
7e8bec7a 2348
c688b954
PH
2349PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
2350 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
2351 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
2352 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
2353 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
2354
fed77020
PH
2355PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
2356 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
2357
7fe1560f
PH
2358PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
2359 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 2360
ebb6e6d5
PH
2361PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
2362 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
2363 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
2364
9c4e8f60
PH
2365PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
2366 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
2367 overlooked.
2368
2369PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
2370
d7174846
PH
2371PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
2372 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
2373 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
2374 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
2375 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
2376 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
2377 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
2378
2379 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
2380 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
2381 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
2382 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
2383 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
2384
2385 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
2386 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
2387 routed further.
2388
cfe75fc3
PH
2389PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
2390 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
2391 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
2392 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
2393 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
2394 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
2395
be22d70e
PH
2396PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
2397
0612b098
PH
2398PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
2399 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
2400 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
2401 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
2402 printable escape sequences.
2403
2e0c1448
PH
2404PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
2405 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
2406 body only.
2407
447d236c
PH
2408PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
2409 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
2410 are as follows:
2411
2412 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
2413 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
2414 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
2415 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
2416 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
2417
2418 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
2419 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
2420 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
2421
d20976dc
PH
2422PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
2423
f656d135
PH
2424PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
2425 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
2426 play with."
2427
2e2a30b4
PH
2428PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
2429 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
2430 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
2431 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
2432 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
2433 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
2434 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
2435 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
2436 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
2437 the log output.
2438
9176e9f0
PH
2439PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
2440 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
2441 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
2442 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
2443 "make".
2444
7982096b 2445
bbe902f0
PH
2446A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
2447----------------------------------------
2448
2449Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
2450changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
2451needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
2452in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
2453that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
2454release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
2455from 4.43.
2456
2457I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
24584.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
2459those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
2460historical information.
2461
2462
f7b63901 2463Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
2464-----------------
2465
5fe762f6
PH
2466 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
2467
139059f6 2468 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 2469 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 2470
7086e875
PH
2471 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
2472 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
2473 place.
2474
35af9f61
PH
2475 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
2476 filter fails to execute.
2477
b668c215
PH
2478 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
2479 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
2480 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
2481 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
2482 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
2483
a494b1e1
PH
2484 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
2485
2486 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
2487 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
2488 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
2489 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 2490
c5fcb476
PH
2491 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
2492 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
2493 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
2494 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
2495 control that does not make sense is encountered.
2496
69358f02
PH
2497 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
2498
5be20824
PH
249910. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
2500
eb2c0248
PH
250111. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
2502 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
2503 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
2504 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
2505
2a3eea10
PH
250612. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
2507 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
2508 sender verification.
2509
251013. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
2511 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
2512
23c7ff99
PH
251314. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
2514
4deaf07d
PH
251515. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
2516 connection timeout.
2517
926e1192
PH
251816. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
2519 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
2520
650edc6f
PH
252117. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
2522 the spool by the -Mrm option.
2523
2c7db3f5
PH
252418. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
2525 information about exactly what failed.
2526
3d235903
PH
252719. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
2528
7c7ad977
PH
252920. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
2530 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
2531 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
2532
981756db
PH
253321. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
2534 It is now set to "smtps".
2535
d4eb88df
PH
253622. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
2537 ignore_target_hosts.
2538
253923. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
2540 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
2541 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
2542 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
2543 "[x.x.x.x]".
2544
7d468ab8
PH
254524. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
2546 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
2547 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
2548
254925. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
2550 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
2551 wake it up if nothing else does.
2552
62c0818f
PH
255326. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
2554 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
2555 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
2556 end up negative.
2557
26034054
PH
255827. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
2559 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
2560
af66f652
PH
256128. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
2562
90af77f4
PH
256329. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
2564 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
2565 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
2566 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
2567 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
2568 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
2569 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
2570 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
2571
d8ef3577
PH
257230. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
2573 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
2574 than one IP address.
2575
5cb8cbc6
PH
257631. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
2577 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
2578 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
2579 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
2580
14702f5b
PH
258132. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
2582 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
2583 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
2584 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
2585 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
2586 1024 to 2048 bytes.
2587
063b1e99
PH
258833. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
2589 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
2590 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
2591 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
2592
652e1b65
PH
259334. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
2594 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
2595 respected.
2596
6f0c9a4f
PH
259735. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
2598 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
2599 $sender_host_address.
2600
33397d19
PH
260136. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
2602 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
2603 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
2604 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
2605 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
2606 very small.
2607
7bb56e1f
PH
260837. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
2609
2610 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
2611 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
2612
ea3bc19b
PH
2613 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
2614 just the host names, not the priorities.
2615
2616 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
2617 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
2618 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 2619
ea3bc19b 2620 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 2621 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 2622
0bcb2a0e
PH
262338. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
2624 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
2625 domain.
2626
2ac0e484
PH
262739. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
2628
4e1fde53
PH
262940. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
2630 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
2631
de365ded
PH
263241. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
2633 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
2634 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
2635
f05da2e8
PH
263642. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
2637
d6453af2
PH
263843. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
2639
f7b63901
PH
264044. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
2641
264245. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
2643 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
2644 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
2645 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
2646 because the tests only now provoked it.
2647
a444213a
PH
264846. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
2649 (this can affect the format of dates).
2650
0ec020ea
PH
265147. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
2652 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
2653 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
2654 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
2655
b1206957
PH
265648. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
2657
265849. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
2659 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
2660 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
2661 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
2662
26dd5a95
PH
266350. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
2664 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
2665 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
2666
343b2385
PH
266751. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
2668 autoreply.
2669
1c5466b9
PH
267052. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
2671 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
2672 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
2673 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
2674 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
2675 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
2676 is going on).
2677
55ee9ee3
PH
267853. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
2679 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
2680 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
2681 the line.
2682
d38f8232
PH
268354. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
2684 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
2685 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
2686
2687 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
2688 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
2689 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
2690 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
2691 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
2692 so I produce this patch..."
2693
3295e65b
PH
2694 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
2695 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
2696 is not defined.
2697
7102e136
PH
269855. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
2699 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
2700 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
2701 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 2702 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 2703
3ca0ba97
PH
270456. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
2705
c2bcbe20
PH
270657. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
2707 long debug lines gets shown.
2708
18ce445d
PH
270958. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
2710 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
2711
1f5b4c3d
PH
271259. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
2713
2714 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
2715 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
2716 of $primary_hostname.
2717
b975ba52
PH
271860. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
2719 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
2720 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
2721 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
2722 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
2723 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
2724 by change 4.50/55 above.
2725
2726 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
2727 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
2728 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
2729 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
2730 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
2731 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 2732 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
2733
273461. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
2735 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
2736 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 2737 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 2738
17ffcae7
PH
273962. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
2740 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
2741
d95f9fdb
PH
274263. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
2743 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
2744 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
2745 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
2746 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
2747
86b8287f
PH
274864. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
2749 This has been fixed.
2750
60dc5e56
PH
275165. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
2752 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
2753 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
2754 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
2755 the caching.)
2756
533244af
PH
275766. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
2758
a5a28604
PH
275967. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
2760 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
2761 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
2762 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
2763
7e634d24
PH
276468. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
2765 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
2766
3e11c26b
PH
276769. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
2768 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
2769 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
2770
6729cf78
PH
277170. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
2772 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
2773 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
2774 message there.
2775
00f00ca5
PH
277671. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
2777 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
2778 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
2779
c9bdd01c
PH
278072. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
2781 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
2782 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
2783 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
2784
d43194df
PH
278573. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
2786 during host lookups.
2787
fe5b5d0b
PH
278874. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
2789 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
2790
2791 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
2792
76a2d7ba
PH
279375. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
2794 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
2795 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
2796 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
2797 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
2798 background.
2799
280076. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
2801 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
2802
04f7d5b9
PH
280377. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
2804 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
2805 for the non-SMTP ACL.
2806
bc60667e
PH
280778. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
2808
bb6e88ff
PH
280979. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
2810 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
2811 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
2812 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
2813 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
2814 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
2815 process earlier.
2816
1e70f85b
PH
281780. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
2818 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
2819 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
2820 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
2821 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
2822
282381. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
2824 tables).
2825
4e01f9d6
PH
282682. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
2827
1ee1cef2
PH
282883. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
2829 "vacation" handling.
2830
6e2b4ccc
PH
283184. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
2832 OS variants using glibc.
2833
8e669ac1
PH
283485. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
2835
495ae4b0 2836
bbe902f0
PH
2837----------------------------------------------------
2838See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
2839----------------------------------------------------
2840
2841
2842Exim version 4.44
2843-----------------
2844
2845 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
2846 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
2847 transport
2848
2849 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
2850 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
2851 place.
2852
2853 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
2854 filter fails to execute.
2855
2856 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
2857 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
2858 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
2859 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
2860 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
2861
2862 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
2863 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
2864 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
2865 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
2866
2867 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
2868 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
2869 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
2870 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
2871 control that does not make sense is encountered.
2872
2873 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
2874
2875 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
2876 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
2877 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
2878 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
2879
2880 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
2881 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
2882 sender verification.
2883
288410. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
2885 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
2886
288711. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
2888 the spool by the -Mrm option.
2889
289012. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
2891 ignore_target_hosts.
2892
289313. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
2894 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
2895 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
2896 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
2897 "[x.x.x.x]".
2898
289914. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
2900 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
2901 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
2902
290315. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
2904 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
2905 wake it up if nothing else does.
2906
290716. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
2908 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
2909 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
2910 end up negative.
2911
291217. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
2913 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
2914
ea3a6f44 291518. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
2916
291719. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
2918 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
2919 empty pattern.
2920
292120. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
2922 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
2923 one IP address.
2924
ea3a6f44
NM
292521. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
2926 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
2927 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
2928 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
2929 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
2930 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 2931
ea3a6f44
NM
293222. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
2933 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
2934 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
2935
293623. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
2937 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
2938 $sender_host_address.
2939
294024. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
2941
ea3a6f44
NM
294225. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
2943 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
2944 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
2945
294626. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 2947 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 2948
ea3a6f44
NM
294927. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
2950 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 2951
ea3a6f44
NM
295228. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
2953 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
2954 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
2955 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
2956
295729. eximstats updated to version 1.35
2958 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
2959 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
2960
ea3a6f44
NM
296130. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
2962 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
2963 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
2964 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 2965
ea3a6f44
NM
296631. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
2967 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
2968 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 2969
ea3a6f44
NM
297031. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
2971 autoreply.
bbe902f0 2972
ea3a6f44
NM
297332. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
2974 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
2975 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
2976 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
2977 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
2978 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
2979 is going on).
bbe902f0 2980
ea3a6f44
NM
298133. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
2982 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
2983 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
2984 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
2985 CAN-2005-0021
2986
ea3a6f44
NM
298734. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
2988 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
2989 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
2990 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
2991 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
2992 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
2993 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
2994
2995 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
2996 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
2997 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
2998 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
2999 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3000 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3001 CAN-2005-0021
3002
ea3a6f44
NM
300335. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3004 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3005 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3006 CAN-2005-0022
3007
ea3a6f44
NM
300836. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3009 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3010 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3011 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3012 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3013
ea3a6f44
NM
301437. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3015 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3016 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3017 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3018 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3019
ea3a6f44
NM
302038. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3021 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3022 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3023 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3024 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3025
3026
495ae4b0
PH
3027Exim version 4.43
3028-----------------
3029
3030 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3031 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3032 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3033 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3034 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3035 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3036 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3037
3038 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3039 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3040 the delivery.
3041
3042 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3043
3044 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3045
3046 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3047 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3048 to local_scan().
3049
3050 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3051 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3052 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3053 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3054 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3055
3056 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3057 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3058
3059 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3060
3061 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3062
306310. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3064 header_sender only.
3065
306611. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3067 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3068
306912. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3070 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3071 affecting debugging statements).
3072
307313. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3074
307514. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3076 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3077 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3078 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3079 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3080 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3081 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3082 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3083 after the received time, and all would be well.
3084
308515. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3086 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3087 condition in an expansion string.
3088
308916. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3090
309117. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3092 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3093 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3094 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3095 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3096 job under whatever limits there are.
3097
309818. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3099
310019. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3101 space).
3102
310320. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3104 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3105 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3106 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3107 return path is set.
3108
310921. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3110 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3111 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3112 binary data in such strings.
3113
311422. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3115
311623. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3117 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3118 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3119 failure, which is pointless.
3120
312124. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3122
312325. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3124
312526. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3126 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3127 Sender: header lines.
3128
312927. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3130 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3131 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3132
313328. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3134 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3135 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3136 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3137 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3138 happens.
3139
314029. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3141 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3142 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3143 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3144 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3145
314630. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3147 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3148 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3149 1024.
3150
315131. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3152 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3153
315432. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3155 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3156
315733. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3158
315932. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3160
316133. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3162
316334. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3164 syntax error.
3165
316635. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3167
316836. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3169
317037. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3171 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3172 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3173 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3174
317538. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3176 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3177
3178
3179Exim version 4.42
3180-----------------
3181
3182 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3183 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3184 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3185 it was not quoted.
3186 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3187 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3188 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3189 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3190 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3191 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3192
3193 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3194 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3195 verification failure".
3196
3197 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3198 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3199 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3200 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3201
3202 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3203 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3204 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3205 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3206 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3207 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3208 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3209 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3210 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3211 treated as a timeout.
3212
3213 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3214 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3215 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3216 not set for Exim filters).
3217
3218 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3219 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3220 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3221
3222 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3223
3224 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3225 try to make them clearer.
3226
3227 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3228 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3229
3230 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3231
3232 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3233
323410. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3235 only the Cygwin environment.
3236
323711. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3238 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3239 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3240 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3241 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
3242
324312. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
3244 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
3245 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
3246 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
3247 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
3248 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
3249 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
3250
325113. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
3252 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
3253
325414. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
3255
3256 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
3257 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
3258 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
3259
3260 To: susanne@some.where
3261
3262 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
3263 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
3264 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
3265 of addresses in From: header lines).
3266
3267 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
3268 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
3269 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
3270
3271 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
3272 treated as non-personal.
3273
3274 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
3275 because it now seems ill-conceived.
3276
327715. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
3278
327916. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
3280
328117. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
3282 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
3283 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
3284
328518. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
3286 ACL and the local_scan() function.
3287
328819. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
3289 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
3290 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
3291 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
3292 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
3293 (I found it when inspecting the code).
3294
329520. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
3296 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
3297 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
3298 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
3299 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
3300 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
3301 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
3302 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
3303
3304 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
3305
330621. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
3307 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
3308
330922. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
3310 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
3311 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
3312
331323. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
3314 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
3315
331624. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
3317 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
3318 rather than long int.
3319
332025. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3321
332226. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
3323
3324
3325Exim version 4.41
3326-----------------
3327
3328 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
3329 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
3330 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
3331 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
3332 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
3333 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
3334
3335
3336Exim version 4.40
3337-----------------
3338
3339 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
3340 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
3341
3342 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
3343 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
3344 socklen_t is defined.
3345
3346 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
3347 always exist.
3348
3349 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
3350 configured.
3351
3352 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
3353 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
3354 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
3355 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
3356 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
3357
3358 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
3359 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
3360 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
3361 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
3362
3363 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
3364 of flapping under certain conditions.
3365
3366 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
3367 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
3368 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
3369
3370 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3371
337210. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
3373
337411. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
3375 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
3376 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
3377 the duration of the SMTP connection.
3378
337912. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
3380 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
3381 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
3382 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
3383 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
3384 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
3385 preserved with the message after it was received.
3386
338713. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
3388 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
3389 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
3390 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
3391 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
3392 test suite worked just fine.
3393
339414. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
3395 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
3396 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
3397
339815. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
3399 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
3400 string.
3401
340216. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
3403 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
3404 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
3405 does not fully solve it.
3406
340717. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
3408 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
3409 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
3410 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
3411 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
3412
341318. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
3414 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
3415 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
3416
341719. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
3418 string, for example:
3419
3420 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
3421
3422 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
3423 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
3424 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
3425 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
3426 the routers could not see them.
3427
342820. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
3429 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
3430
343121. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
3432 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
3433 output).
3434
343522. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
3436 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
3437 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
3438 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
3439 that needed quoting.
3440
344123. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
3442 was not being matched caselessly.
3443
344424. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
3445 backslashes.
3446
344725. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
3448 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
3449 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
3450 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
3451 when use_sender is false.
3452
345326. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
3454
345527. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
3456
345728. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
3458
345929. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
3460 the configuration file.
3461
346230. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
3463 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
3464
346531. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
3466
346732. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
3468 bytes in the message body.
3469
347033. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
3471 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
3472 delivery.
3473
347434. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
3475
347635. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
3477
347836. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
3479 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
3480 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
3481 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
3482 another IP address.
3483
3484
3485Exim version 4.34
3486-----------------
3487
3488 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
3489 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
3490
3491 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
3492 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
3493 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
3494 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
3495 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
3496
3497 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
3498 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
3499
3500 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
3501 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
3502 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
3503
3504 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
3505