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495ae4b0 1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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8Exim version 4.90
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10
11JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
12 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
13 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
14 pairs of long lines into single ones.
15
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16PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
17 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
18
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19JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
20 This permits better logging.
21
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22JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
23 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
24 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
25 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
26 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 27 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
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29JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
30 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
31 "exiwhat" output.
32
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33PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
34 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
35 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
36
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37JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
38 than 255 are no longer allowed.
39
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40JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
41 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
42 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
43 client, there is no benefit for these.
44 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
45 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
46 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
47 is used (3.2.4 +).
48
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49PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
50 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
51
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52JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
53 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
54 erroneously found still-pending ones.
55
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56JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
57 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
58
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59JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
60 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
61 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
62 signature and again for transmission.
63
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64JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
65 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 66 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
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68JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
69 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
70 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
71 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
72 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
73 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
74 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
75
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76JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
77 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
78 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
79 awareness of the SMTP input buferring.
80
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81PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
82 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
83 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
84 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
85 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
86 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
87 processing options.
88
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89JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS, with GnuTLS. Previously, although safe, no
90 advantage was taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA,
91 and (server) responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this
92 usually means a single packet). As a side issue, we can now detect
93 over-eager senders in non-pipelined mode.
94
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9427e879 99JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 100 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 101
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102JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
103
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104PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
105 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
106
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107JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
108 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
109
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110JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
111 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
112 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
113 before acknowledging the chunk.
114
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115PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
116 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
117 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
118
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119JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
120 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
121 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
122 should.
123
124JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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125 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
126 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
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bd8fbe36 128JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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129 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
130
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131JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
132 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
133 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
134 body hash calculated value.
135
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136JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
137 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
138 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
139
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140JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
141
142JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
143 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
144
145JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
146 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
147 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
148
149JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
150 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
151 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
152 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
153 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
154 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
155
156JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
157 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
158 past that check, despite the cost.
159
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160JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
161 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
162 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
163
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164PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
165 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
166 TLS library to consume.
167
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168PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
169
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170PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
171
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172JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
173 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
174 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
175 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
176 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
177 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
178 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
179
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180PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
181
182PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
183
184PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
185 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
186 should be warning-free.
187
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188JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
189
190HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
191 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
192
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193HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
194 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
195 general solution here.
196
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197PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
198 already-broken messages in the queue.
199
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200JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
201
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202JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
203
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205Exim version 4.88
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208JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
209 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 210
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211JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
212 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
213 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
214
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215JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
216 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
217 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
218 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
219 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
220 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
221 if one fails this test.
222 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
223 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
224
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225JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
226 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
227
23bb6982 228JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 229 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 230
0bd1b1ed 231JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 232 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 233
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234JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
235 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
236
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237JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
238 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
239
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240JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
241
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242JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
243 certificate).
244
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245JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
246 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
247 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
248 connection after a verify cache hit.
249 Do not update it with the verify result either.
250
251JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
252 when routing results in more than one destination address.
253
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254JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
255 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
256 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
257 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
258 when the cutthrough connection is made).
259
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260JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
261 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
262
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263JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
264 Previously they were not counted.
265
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266JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
267 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
268 that needed the lookup.
269
4c04137d 270JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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271 distinguished as "(=".
272
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273JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
274 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
275
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276JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
277
278JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
279 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 280
4c04137d 281JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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282 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
283
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284JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
285 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
286 compatible.
287
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288JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
289 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
290 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
291 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
292
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293JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
294
f59aaaaa 295JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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296 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
297 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 298
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299JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
300 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
301 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
302 be lost.
303
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304JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
305 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
306 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
307 itself :(
308
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309JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
310 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
311 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
312
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313JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
314 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
315 options.
316
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317JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
318
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319PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
320 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
321
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322PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
323 are not in the system include path.
324
ad7fc6eb 325JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 326 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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327 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
328 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 329
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330JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
331 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
332 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
333
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334JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
335
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336HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
337 an incoming connection.
338
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339HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
340 to rspamd.
341
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342HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
343 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 344
87cb4a16 345JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 346 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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347
348
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349Exim version 4.87
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352JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
353 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
354 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
355 client dropping the TLS connection.
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357TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
358 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
359
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360TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
361 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
362 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
363 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
364 outgoing I= field.
365
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366JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
367 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
368 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
369 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
370 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
371 check on the next write.
372
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373HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
374 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
375 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
376 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
377 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
378
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379JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
380 mime_regex ACL conditions.
381
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382JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
383 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
384 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
385
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386JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
387 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
388 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
389 an authenticate fail is not an error.
390
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391HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
392 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
393
4c04137d 394JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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395 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
396
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397JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
398 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
399 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
400 distinct.
401
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402JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
403
404JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
405
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406JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
407
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408JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
409 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
410
98b98887 411JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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412 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
413
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414JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
415
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416JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
417 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
418
419JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
420
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421JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
422 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
423
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424JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
425
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426JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
427 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 428 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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429 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
430 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
431 they will retry in-clear.
432 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
433 at installation time.
434
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435HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
436 with the $config_file variable.
437
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438JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
439 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
440 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
441 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 442 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 443
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444GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
445 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
446 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
447 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
448 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
449
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450JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
451
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452JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
453 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
454 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
455 list order is no longer honoured.
456
4c04137d 457JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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458 for DKIM processing.
459
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460JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
461 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 462
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463JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
464 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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465 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
466 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 467
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468JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
469 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
470
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471JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
472 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
473
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474JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
475 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
476
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477JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
478
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479JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
480 cached by the daemon.
481
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482JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
483 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
484
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485JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
486 keys are given for lookup.
487
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488JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
489 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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490 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
491 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 492
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493JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
494 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
495 server-side so match that on older versions.
496
07c73177 497JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 498 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 499 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 500
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501JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
502 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
503
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504JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
505 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
506 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 507 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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508 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
509 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
510 initial truncated version.
511
ab9152ff 512JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 513
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514JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
515
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516JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
517 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
518
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519JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
520
bc3c7bb7 521HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 522
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523JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
524 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
525 induced overflows.
526
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527JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
528 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
529 stage.
530
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531JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
532 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
533
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534JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
535 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
536 former class.
537
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538JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
539 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
540 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
541
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542JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
543 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
544 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
545 extraction. Accept either.
546
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551JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
552 expanded.
553
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554JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
555
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556JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
557 it.
558
01a4a5c5 559JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 560 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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561 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
562 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
563
cb1d7830 564JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 565 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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566 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
567
610ff438 568JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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569 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
570 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
571 TLS connections
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573JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
574 sites use this now.
575
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576JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
577 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
578 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
579 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
580 have a dsn_lasthop option.
581
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582JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
583 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 584 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 585
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586JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
587
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588JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
589 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
590
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591JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
592 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
593
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594JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
595 /defer_ok option.
596
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597JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
598 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
599
fd4d8871 600JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 601 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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602 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
603
604JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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605 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
606 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 607
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608JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
609 timeout value per server.
610
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611JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
612 now have the list separator specified.
613
8a512ed5 614JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 615 option values.
8a512ed5 616
82c0c8ea 617JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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618 under OpenSSL.
619
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620JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
621
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622JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
623 rather than the verbs used.
624
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625JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
626 from 255 to 1024 chars.
627
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628JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
629
cfab9d68 630HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 631 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 632
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633JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
634 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
635
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636HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
637 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
638
4c04137d 639JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 640
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641JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
642
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643JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
644 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 645 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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646 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
647
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648JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
649
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650JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
651 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
652
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653JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
654 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
655
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656JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
657
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658JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
659
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660JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
661
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662JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
663 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
664
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665JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
666 added for tls authenticator.
667
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668HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
669
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674TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
675 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
676 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
677 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
678 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
679 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
680 the script parsing/test process like normal.
681
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682TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
683 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
684 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
685 function when detected.
686
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687JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
688 cause callback expansion.
689
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690TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
691 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
692 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
693 instead of bool when processing it.
694
0f06b4f2 695JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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696 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
697
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698JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
699
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700JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
701
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702TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
703
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704TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
705 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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707JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
708 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
709 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
710 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 711 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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712 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
713
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714JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
715 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
716 exceeded it.
717
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718JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
719 version 3.3.6 or later.
720
4c04137d 721JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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722 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
723 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 724 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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725 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
726 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
727 option is defined.
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729TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
730 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
731
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732JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
733 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
734 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
735 matches.
736
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737JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
738 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
739 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
740
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741JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
742 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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743
744JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
745 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
746 syntax errors.
747
3394b36a 748JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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749
750JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
751 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
752
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753TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
754 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
755 tarball.
756
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757JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
758
4c04137d 759JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
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760 Bug 1561.
761
762JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
763 output list separator was used.
764
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768TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
769 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
770 return.
1f0ebb98 771
a612424f 772JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 773 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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775JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
776
777TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 778 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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783
784TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
785
786 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
787 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
788 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
789 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
790 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
791 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
792
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793TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
794 utilities have not been installed.
795
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796JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
797 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
798
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799TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
800 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
801
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802TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
803 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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804 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
805 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
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807JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
808
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809TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
810 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
811
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812PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
813 not dns_use_dnssec.
814
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815JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
816
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817TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
818 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
819 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
820
8ddef691 821TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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822 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
823 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
824 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
825 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 826 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 827
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828JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
829
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830JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
831 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
832
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833JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
834 failed delivery.
835
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836JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
837
511a6c14 838JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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839
840JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
841 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 842
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843JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
844 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
845
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846TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
847
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848JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
849
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850JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
851 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
852
853 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
854 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
855 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
856
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857TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
858 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
859 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
860 analysis.
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862JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
863
8c51eead 864JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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865 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
866 lookup).
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868TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
869 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
870 Schlichting.
35aba663 871
fd3b6a4a 872JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 873 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 874
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875TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
876 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
877
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878JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
879
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880TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
881 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
882 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
883
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884JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
885 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
886
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887JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
888 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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889 hosts_request_ocsp.
890
ed3bba5f 891JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 892 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 893 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
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895JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
896
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897TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
898 Christian Aistleitner.
899
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900JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
901
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902TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
903 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
904
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905JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
906 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
907
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908JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
909 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
910
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911TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
912 support and error reporting did not work properly.
913
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914TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
915 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
916
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917TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
918 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
919 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
920
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921JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
922
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923PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
924 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
925 Jasper Wallace.
926
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927JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
928
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929TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
930 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
931 CVE-2014-2972
932
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937PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
938
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939PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
940 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
941
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942PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
943 by GnuTLS.
944
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945PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
946 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
947 routines.
948
13363eba 949PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 950
66645890 951PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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952 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
953 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
954 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
955 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 956
a3fb9793 957PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
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958 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
959 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
960 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 961 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 962 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 963
d27f98fe 964TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 965
6822b909
TL
966TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
967
e7568d51
TL
968TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
969 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
970
ae0e32ee 971TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 972 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 973 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
TL
974
975TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 976
e2658fff
TL
977TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
978
83712b39
TL
979TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
980 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
981
976b7e9f
JH
982JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
983
be4a1376
JH
984JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
985
ec4b68e5
PP
986PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
987
d7148a07
NM
988NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
989 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 990
585121e2 991JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 992
2519e60d
TL
993PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
994 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
995 function.
a5f239e4 996
13d08c90
PP
997PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
998 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
999
bef3ea7f
JH
1000JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1001 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1002 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1003
846726c5
JH
1004JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1005
3a796370
JH
1006JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1007
ea722490 1008JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1009 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1010
b1b05573
JH
1011JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1012 Bugzilla 884.
1013
362145b5
JH
1014JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1015 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1016
3c0a92dc
JH
1017JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1018 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1019
6d7c6175
PP
1020PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1021 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1022 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1023
6f123593
JH
1024JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1025 authenticators.
1026
c8e2fc1e
JH
1027JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1028 for control.
1029
005ac57f
PP
1030PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1031
3f1df0e3
PP
1032PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1033 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1034 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1035 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1036
67bd1ab3
TF
1037TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1038
1039 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1040 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1041 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1042 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1043 the retry rules.
1044
1045 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1046 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1047 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1048
1049 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1050 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1051 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1052 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1053
1ddeb334
TF
1054 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1055 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1056 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1057 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1058 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1059 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1060 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1061
1062 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1063 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1064
326cdc37
TF
1065TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1066
1067 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1068
1069 Resent-From: f
1070
1071 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1072 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1073 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1074 username as equal to the username.
1075
1076 This change corrects that bug.
1077
f62514b3
GF
1078GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1079 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1080 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1081
eb505532
TF
1082TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1083
14c7b357
PP
1084PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1085 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1086 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1087 NULL dereference and crash.
1088
94eaf700
PP
1089JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1090
6f5a440a
PP
1091PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1092 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1093 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1094
514ee161
SC
1095SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1096
fd98a5c6
JH
1097JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1098 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1099 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1100 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1101 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1102 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1103 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1104 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1105 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1106 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1107 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1108
035c7f1e
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1109PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1110 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1111
ff284120
PP
1112PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1113 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1114 Bugzilla 880.
1115
26e72755
PP
1116PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1117 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1118 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1119 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1120 an empty string is now equivalent.
1121
0fbd9bff
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1122PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1123 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1124 not performing validation itself.
1125
700d22f3
PP
1126PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1127 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1128
fcc8e047
JH
1129JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1130 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1131
4c04137d 1132TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1133
8c020188
PP
1134PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1135 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1136 other false fix of the same issue.
1137 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1138 Bugzilla 1363.
1139
d13cdd30
PP
1140PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1141 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1142
e2fbf4a2
PP
1143PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1144 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1145 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1146
f4c1088b
PP
1147PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1148 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1149 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1150
c5c2182f
PP
1151TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1152
73431ca9
JH
1153JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1154
2d07a215
TL
1155TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1156 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1157
a30a8861
TL
1158TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1159 Alexander Miroch.
1160
33382dd9
TL
1161TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1162 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1163 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1164 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1165 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1166
046172e6
TL
1167TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1168 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1169
581d7bee 1170TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1171 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1172 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1173
1174TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1175 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1176 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1177 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1178
237b2cf2
TL
1179TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1180
9fc5a352
TL
1181TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1182 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1183 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1184
b10e4ec2
TL
1185TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1186
e2cebd74
TL
1187TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1188 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1189 interaction.
1190
1191TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1192 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1193
2519e60d
TL
1194TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1195 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1196
e78e6ecf 1197
4263f395
PP
1198Exim version 4.80.1
1199-------------------
1200
1201PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1202 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1203 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1204
ea722490 1205
b1770b6e 1206Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1207-----------------
1208
1209PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1210 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1211 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1212
23c7e742
NM
1213NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1214
b322aac8
NM
1215NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1216 improved.
1217
4a891427
NM
1218NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1219
c1e794ba 1220PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1221
97753960
PP
1222PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1223
1224PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1225 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1226
df6303fa
PP
1227PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1228 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1229
7e6a8985
PP
1230PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1231 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1232
f1e05cc7 1233PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1234 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1235 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1236
4c287009
PP
1237PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1238
b98bb9ac
PP
1239PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1240 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1241
4a6a987a
PP
1242PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1243
c45dd180 1244PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1245
7db8d074
PP
1246PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1247 non-compliant senders.
1248 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1249
eae0036b 1250NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1251 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1252 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1253
dec5017e
PP
1254PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1255 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1256 in spool file corruption.
1257
c80c5570
PP
1258PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1259 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1260 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1261 "Got SSL error 2".
1262
076b11e2
PP
1263TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1264 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1265 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1266
5407bfff
JH
1267JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1268 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1269
9e45c72b
PP
1270JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1271
e74376d8
PP
1272PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1273 diagnostics.
1274 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1275
4c04137d 1276PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1277 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1278 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1279
7be682ca
PP
1280PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1281 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1282 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1283 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1284
ef840681
PP
1285PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1286 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1287
5bfb4cdf
PP
1288PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1289 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1290 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1291 resolver implementation change.
1292
c6e95d22
PP
1293PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1294 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1295
9cbad13b
PP
1296PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1297
9ee44efb
PP
1298PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1299
6a6084f8
PP
1300PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1301 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1302
12dd53c7
PP
1303PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1304 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1305
9e45c72b 1306JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1307 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1308
17c76198
PP
1309PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1310 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1311 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1312 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1313 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1314
53947857 1315PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1316
eae0036b 1317PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1318 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1319 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1320
9e45c72b 1321JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1322
7390e768
PP
1323PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1324 read-only, out of scope).
1325 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1326
08488c86
PP
1327PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1328 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1329 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1330 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1331
6475bd82
PP
1332PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1333
81f91683
PP
1334PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1335 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1336 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1337 real issues in debug logging.
1338
5779e6aa
PP
1339PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1340 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1341
3375e053
PP
1342PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1343 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1344 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1345
1346PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1347 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1348 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1349 problems.
3375e053 1350
9d26b8c0
PP
1351PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1352 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1353
57eb9e91 1354PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1355 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1356 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1357 needs to override this, it can.
1358
16880d1a
PP
1359PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1360 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1361 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1362
a799883d
PP
1363PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1364 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1365 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1366 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1367
3ecab157 1368PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1369
0599f9cf 1370
867fcbf5
PP
1371Exim version 4.77
1372-----------------
1373
1374PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1375 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1376
f1a29782
TF
1377TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1378
ab42bd23
TK
1379TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1380 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1381
0ca0cf52
TF
1382TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1383 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1384
921b12ca
TF
1385TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1386 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1387 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1388
1389 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1390 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1391 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1392 not safe for signals.
1393
1394 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1395 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1396 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1397 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1398 exiwhat.
1399
c99ce5c9
TF
1400TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1401
1402 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1403 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1404 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1405 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1406 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1407
1408 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1409 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1410 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1411 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1412 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1413 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1414
1415 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1416 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1417 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1418 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1419
1420 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1421 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1422 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1423 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1424
1425 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1426 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1427 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1428 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1429 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1430 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1431 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1432 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1433 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1434
1435 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1436 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1437 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1438 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1439
1440 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1441 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1442 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1443 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1444 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1445 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1446 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1447 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1448 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1449 details in the main documentation.
1450
3634fc25
TF
1451TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1452
792e8a19
TF
1453TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1454
5901f0ab
TF
1455TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1456 repository when doing development or release builds.
1457
7f2a2a43
PP
1458PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1459 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1460
061b7ebd
PP
1461PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1462 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1463 Bugzilla 97.
1464
e12f8c32
PP
1465PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1466
9e949f00 1467PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1468 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1469
1470PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1471 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1472
555ae6af 1473PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1474 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1475
1476PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1477 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1478
6f7fe114
PP
1479PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1480 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1481
c566dd90
PP
1482PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1483 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1484 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1485 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1486
d6cc7c78 1487PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1488 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1489 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1490
0d0e4455
PP
1491PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1492
3399bb60 1493PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1494
1495PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1496 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1497
0ca0cf52 1498
10906672
PP
1499Exim version 4.76
1500-----------------
1501
1502PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1503
754a0503
PP
1504PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1505 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1506
c0c7b2da
PP
1507PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1508
e97d1f08
PP
1509PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1510
084c1d8c
PP
1511PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1512 Bugzilla 1098.
1513
4e7ee012
PP
1514PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1515 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1516
c8d52a00
PP
1517TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1518 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1519
54e7ce4a
PP
1520PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1521 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1522
5ee6f336
PP
1523PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1524 Bugzilla 1104.
1525
c8d52a00 1526TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1527 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1528
1529TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1530 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1531 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1532 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1533
1534PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1535 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1536
10906672 1537
aa097c4c
NM
1538Exim version 4.75
1539-----------------
1540
4c04137d 1541NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1542 Bugzilla 1073
1543
7f3d9eff
TF
1544TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1545 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1546 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1547
159f52d2
TF
1548TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1549 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1550
0cc9542a
PP
1551PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1552 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1553 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1554
f7274286
PP
1555PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1556 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1557
7b797365
PP
1558PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1559 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1560
caacae52
NM
1561NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1562 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1563
09dcaba9
NM
1564NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1565 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1566
bc19a55b
PP
1567PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1568 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1569
bd4c9759
NM
1570NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1571 Fixes bug 943.
1572
b72aab72
PP
1573PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1574 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1575
2fe76745
PP
1576PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1577 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1578
76aa570c
PP
1579PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1580 SQL string expansion failure details.
1581 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1582
f1e5fef5
PP
1583PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1584 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1585
4d805ee9
PP
1586PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1587 extern declarations in function scope.
1588 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1589
cd59ab18
PP
1590PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1591 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1592 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1593 a kernel bug).
1594
332f5cf3
PP
1595PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1596 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1597
29cfeb94
PP
1598PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1599 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1600
660242ad
PP
1601PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1602 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1603
bc4bc4c5
PP
1604PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1605 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1606
2e64baa9
NM
1607NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1608 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1609 Dennis Davis.
1610
4c04137d 1611PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 1612
6bac1a9a
PP
1613PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1614
552193f0
NM
1615NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1616 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1617
1b587e48
TF
1618TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1619 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1620
aa097c4c 1621
8c07b69f
TF
1622Exim version 4.74
1623-----------------
1624
1625TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1626 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1627
c0ea85ab
TF
1628TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1629 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1630
0761d44e
TF
1631TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1632
0a349494
PP
1633DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1634 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1635 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1636
1637PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1638 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1639 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1640
fea24b2e
PP
1641PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1642 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1643 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1644 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1645
6545de78
PP
1646PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1647 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1648 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1649 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1650
1670ef10
PP
1651PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1652 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1653 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1654 arbitrary files.
1655
c0886197
PP
1656PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1657 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1658
b7487bce
PP
1659PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1660 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1661 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1662 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1663 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1664
8c07b69f 1665
97fd1e48 1666Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1667-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1668
1669PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1670 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1671 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1672
6901c596
PP
1673PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1674 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1675
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1676JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1677
77bb000f
PP
1678PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1679
a29e5231
PP
1680PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1681
ec5a0394 1682PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1683
55c75993
PP
1684PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1685
453a6645 1686PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1687 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1688 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1689 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1690
8544e77a
PP
1691PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1692 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1693 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1694 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1695 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1696
83e029d5
PP
1697PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1698
ed7f7860
PP
1699PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1700
7d9f747b
PP
1701PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1702
4b2241d2
PP
1703PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1704
10385c15
PP
1705PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1706
dbc4b90d
PP
1707PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1708
532be449
PP
1709PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1710
6a8de854 1711PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1712 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1713 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1714
5dc43717
JJ
1715JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1716
1717JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1718 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1719
3346ab01
PP
1720PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1721 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1722
491fab4c
PP
1723PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1724 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1725 Notification from John Horne.
1726
13eb9497
PP
1727PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1728 compatible.
1729
1730PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1731 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1732 it normally works.
1733
7f36d675
DW
1734DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1735 access.
1736
c1d94452
DW
1737DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1738 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1739 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1740
e2f5dc15
DW
1741DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1742 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1743 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1744 configuration file.
1745
cd25e41d
DW
1746DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1747 option (effectively making it always true).
1748
261dc43e
DW
1749DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1750 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1751
fa32850b
DW
1752DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1753 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1754
79d4bc3d
PP
1755PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1756 run-time user, instead of root.
1757
43236f35 1758PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1759 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1760
fb08281f
DW
1761DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1762 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1763 arguments.
3346ab01 1764
74935b98
DW
1765DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1766 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1767 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1768
90b6341f
DW
1769DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1770
57730b52
ML
1771NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1772
66581d1e 1773
465e92cf
JJ
1774Exim version 4.72
1775-----------------
1776
453a6645
PP
1777JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1778 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1779 typos
465e92cf 1780
453a6645
PP
1781JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1782 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1783 (Finput)
edae0343 1784
9bd3e22c
NM
1785NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1786 Patch from Alain Williams
1787
bb576ff7
NM
1788NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1789
5a1a5845
NM
1790NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1791 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1792
981a9fad
NM
1793NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1794 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1795
7fc497ee
NM
1796NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1797
1a41defa
JJ
1798JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1799
a466095c 1800NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1801 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1802
94a6bd0b
NM
1803TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1804
1805TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1806
1807MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1808 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1809 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1810
c1b141a8
NM
1811NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1812 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1813
b26eacf1 1814NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1815 Patch by Simon Arlott
1816
179c5980 1817PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1818 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1819
9bd3e22c 1820
7c6d71af
NM
1821Exim version 4.71
1822-----------------
1823
7d9f747b 1824TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1825
f013fb92
NM
1826NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1827
0eb8eedd
NM
1828NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1829
663ee6d9
NM
1830NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1831
177ebd9b
NM
1832NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1833
7c6d71af 1834
210f147e
NM
1835Exim version 4.70
1836-----------------
1837
cdd3bb85 1838TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1839 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1840
1841TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1842 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1843 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1844
1845TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1846 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1847 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1848
1849TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1850 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1851
210f147e
NM
1852NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1853 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1854 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1855 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1856
deafd5b3
NM
1857NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1858 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1859 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1860
089793a4
TF
1861TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1862
5f16ca82
TF
1863TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1864
dae9d94e 1865NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1866 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1867
7d9f747b 1868NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1869
06864c44
TF
1870TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1871 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1872 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1873 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1874
65a7d8c3 1875NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1876 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1877
23510047 1878TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1879
7d9f747b 1880NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1881
7d8eec3a 1882NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1883 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1884
89dec7b6
TF
1885TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1886 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1887
a99de90c
TF
1888TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1889 that they are available at delivery time.
1890
e2803e40
TF
1891TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1892
7199e1ee
TF
1893TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1894 incoming_port log selectors.
1895
e276e04b
TF
1896TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1897 setting expands to an empty string.
1898
ce552449 1899NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1900 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1901
e765a0f1 1902NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1903 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1904
4f054c63 1905NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1906 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1907
7d9f747b
PP
1908NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1909 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1910
7d9f747b
PP
1911NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1912 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1913
b52bc06e 1914NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1915 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1916
447de4b0
NM
1917NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1918
4c69d561 1919NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1920 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1921
d5c39246 1922NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1923 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1924
0b23848a
TK
1925TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1926
8f3414a1 1927NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1928 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1929
fb6f955d
NM
1930NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1931
1932NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1933
7d9f747b
PP
1934NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1935 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1936
7d9f747b
PP
1937NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1938 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1939
7d9f747b
PP
1940NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1941 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1942
7d9f747b
PP
1943NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1944 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1945
7d9f747b
PP
1946NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1947 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1948
7d9f747b
PP
1949NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1950 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1951
7d9f747b
PP
1952NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1953 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1954
7d9f747b 1955NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1956 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1957
7d9f747b 1958NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1959
7d9f747b
PP
1960NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1961 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1962
7d9f747b 1963NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1964
7d9f747b 1965NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1966
7d9f747b 1967NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1968
7d9f747b 1969NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1970
17792b53 1971NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1972 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1973
7d9f747b
PP
1974NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1975 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1976
91576cec 1977NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1978 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1979
7d9f747b
PP
1980NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1981 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1982
7d9f747b 1983NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1984
7d9f747b 1985NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1986
7d9f747b 1987NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1988
7d9f747b 1989NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1990
deafd5b3 1991
47db1125
NM
1992Exim version 4.69
1993-----------------
1994
4b3504d0
TK
1995TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1996 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1997 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1998
1999 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2000 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2001 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2002 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2003 build errors in sieve.c.
2004
81ea09ca
NM
2005NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2006 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2007 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2008
f13cddcb
SC
2009SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2010
7d9f747b 2011NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2012
7d9f747b 2013NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2014
7d9f747b 2015NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2016
2017
eb4c0de6
PH
2018Exim version 4.68
2019-----------------
2020
2021PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2022
6a3bceb1
PH
2023PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2024 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2025 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2026 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2027 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2028 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2029 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2030 for iplsearch lookups.
2031
2032 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2033 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2034 previously such lookups could never work.
2035
4c04137d 2036 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2037 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2038 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2039
2e30fa9d
TK
2040TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2041 version.
2042
0806a9c5
MH
2043MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2044 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2045 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2046 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2047 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2048 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2049
ae276964
TK
2050TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2051 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2052
0f2cbd1b
MH
2053MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2054 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2055 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2056 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2057 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2058 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2059
2b85bce7
PH
2060PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2061 local_scan API.
2062
93655c46
PH
2063PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2064
6c512171
PH
2065PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2066 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2067 encrypted.
2068
2069PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2070 by clients under certain conditions.
2071
aa6dc513
PH
2072PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2073 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2074
a96603a0
PH
2075PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2076
8f240103
PH
2077PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2078 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2079
2080PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2081
d677b2f2
PH
2082PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2083
d52120f2
PH
2084PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2085
64f2600a
PH
2086PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2087 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2088
8669f003
PH
2089PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2090
a4dc33a8
PH
2091PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2092 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2093
d6a60c0f
PH
2094PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2095
8f128379
PH
2096PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2097
8932dffe
PH
2098PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2099 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2100 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2101 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2102
ddea74fa 2103PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2104 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2105 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2106
ddea74fa 2107PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2108 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2109
ddea74fa
PH
2110PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2111
ce9f225c
PH
2112PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2113
19897d52
PH
2114PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2115
bc64a74d
PH
2116PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2117 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2118 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2119
eb4c0de6 2120
b4ed4da0
PH
2121Exim version 4.67
2122-----------------
2123
22ad45c9
MH
2124MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2125 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2126 Jan Srzednicki.
2127
b4ed4da0
PH
2128PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2129 issue a MAIL command.
2130
431b7361
PH
2131PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2132
2133 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2134
2135 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2136 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2137 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2138 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2139 item. This has been fixed.
2140
2141PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2142 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2143
83da1223
PH
2144PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2145 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2146
54fc8428
PH
2147PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2148 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2149 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2150
34c5e8dd
SC
2151SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2152
bbe15da8
PH
2153PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2154 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2155 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2156 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2157 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2158
0e8a9471
MH
2159MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2160 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2161 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2162
f0872424
PH
2163PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2164 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2165 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2166 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2167
b01dd148
PH
2168PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2169
6bf342e1
PH
2170PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2171
273f34d0
PH
2172PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2173 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2174 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2175 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2176 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2177
cf8b11a5
PH
2178PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2179
41c7c167
PH
2180PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2181 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2182 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2183 values).
2184
9c57cbc0
PH
2185PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2186
f3f065bb
PH
2187PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2188
047bdd8c
PH
2189PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2190
0ce9abe6
PH
2191PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2192
0e22dfd1
PH
2193PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2194
4c590bd1
PH
2195PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2196 no_callout_flush is set.
2197
09945f1e
PH
2198PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2199 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2200 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2201 fixed.
2202
c51b8e75
PH
2203PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2204
e28326d8 2205PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2206 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2207 other ACL rejections are.
2208
75b1493f
PH
2209PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2210 with slight modification.
2211
7c5214ec
PH
2212PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2213 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2214
4311097e
PH
2215PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2216 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2217 connection.
2218
29f89cad
PH
2219PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2220 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2221
5e687460
SC
2222SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2223
c3611384
PH
2224PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2225 expansion side effects.
2226
5a11a7b4
PH
2227PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2228 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2229 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2230 be the same.
2231
0e20aff9
MH
2232MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2233 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2234 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2235
ca86f471
PH
2236PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2237 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2238 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2239 were accidentally chopped off.
2240
a14e5636
PH
2241PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2242 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2243 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2244 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2245 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2246 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2247 pipelining has not been advertised.
2248
ec95d1a6
PH
2249PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2250
42855d71
PH
2251PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2252 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2253 This has been fixed.
2254
57c2c631
PH
2255PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2256 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2257 reported on Solaris.
2258
58c01c94
PH
2259PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2260 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2261 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2262 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2263 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2264 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2265 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2266
dee5a20a
PH
2267PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2268 cpus.
2269
d2ee6114
PH
2270PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2271
b2d5182b
PH
2272PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2273
79749a79
PH
2274PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2275 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2276 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2277 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2278 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2279 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2280
c456d9bb
PH
2281PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2282 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2283 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2284 host_all_ignored option.
2285
cd9868ec
PH
2286PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2287 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2288 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2289 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2290 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2291 is what is supposed to happen).
2292
ebeaf996
PH
2293PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2294 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2295 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2296 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2297 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2298 uses the Exim user.
2299
2679d413
PH
2300PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2301 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2302 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2303 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2304 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2305 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2306 users.
2307
84024b72
PH
2308PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2309
8005d38e
SC
2310SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2311 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2312 (Jez Hancock).
2313 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2314 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2315
3298c6c6
SC
2316SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2317
a43a27c5
PH
2318PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2319
58eb016e 2320PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2321 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2322 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2323 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2324 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2325 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2326 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2327 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2328 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2329 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2330 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2331
b43a74ea
PH
2332PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2333 advertised in response to EHLO.
2334
b4ed4da0 2335
5dd1517f
PH
2336Exim version 4.66
2337-----------------
2338
2339PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2340 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2341
2342 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2343 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2344
2345 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2346 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2347 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2348
2349 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2350 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2351 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2352 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2353 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2354
2355
93cfa765
TK
2356Exim version 4.65
2357-----------------
2358
2359TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2360 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2361 versions. (#438)
2362
d6066548
MH
2363MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2364 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2365 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2366
4362ff0d
PH
2367PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2368 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2369 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2370 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2371 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2372 rather than extend the field.
2373
93cfa765 2374
944e9e9c
TF
2375Exim version 4.64
2376-----------------
aa41d2de 2377
21d74bd9
TK
2378TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2379 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2380 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2381 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2382 these files.
2383
2384TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2385 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2386 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2387
2388TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2389 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2390 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2391
2392TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2393 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2394 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2395 in the field name.
2396
2b1c6e3a
PH
2397PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2398 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2399 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2400 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2401 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2402 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2403 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2404 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2405 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2406 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2407 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2408
1f872c80
PH
2409PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2410 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2411
2412PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2413 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2414 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2415 ignores EPIPE as well.
2416
d203e649
PH
2417PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2418 (quoted-printable decoding).
2419
cc2ed8f7 2420PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2421 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2422
ddfcd446
PH
2423PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2424
d45b1de8
PH
2425PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2426
2427PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2428
38a0a95f 2429PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2430 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2431
a2405d83
JJ
2432JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2433 in 4.64-PH/09.
2434
2435JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2436 miscellaneous code fixes
2437
6ea85e9a
PH
2438PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2439 rejections.
2440
26da7e20
PH
2441PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2442 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2443 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2444 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2445 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2446 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2447 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2448 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2449
14aa5a05 2450PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2451 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2452 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2453 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2454 function.
2455 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2456 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2457 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2458 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2459 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2460 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2461 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2462 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2463 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2464
ff75a1f7
PH
2465PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2466 decoding.
2467
e6f6568e
PH
2468PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2469 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2470 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2471 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2472 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2473 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2474 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2475 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2476
d6f6e0dc
PH
2477PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2478 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2479 list.
2480
322050c2
PH
2481PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2482 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2483 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2484 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2485 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2486 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2487 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2488 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2489 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2490 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2491 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2492 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2493 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2494
08955dd3
PH
2495PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2496 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2497 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2498 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2499 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2500 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2501 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2502
1eccaa59
PH
2503PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2504 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2505 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2506 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2507 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2508 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2509 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2510 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2511 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2512 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2513
602e59e5
PH
2514PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2515 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2516 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2517 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2518 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2519
411ef850
PH
2520PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2521 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2522 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2523 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2524 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2525 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2526 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2527
7befa435
PH
2528PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2529 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2530 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2531 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2532 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2533 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2534 been verified.
2535
48da4259 2536PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2537 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2538 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2539 and authorization.)
2540
48da4259
PH
2541PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2542 if any retry times were supplied.
2543
d1d5595c
PH
2544PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2545 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2546 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2547
0ef732d9
PH
2548PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2549
328895cc
PH
2550PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2551
fd700877
PH
2552PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2553 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2554 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2555 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2556 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2557 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2558
8dce1a6f
PH
2559PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2560 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2561
17af4a17
PH
2562PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2563 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2564 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2565
2566PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2567 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2568 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2569 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2570 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2571 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2572 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2573 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2574 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2575
2576 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2577 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2578 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2579 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2580 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2581 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2582 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2583 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2584 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2585
2586 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2587 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2588 hammering the server.
2589
c1114884
PH
2590PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2591 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2592
7a0743eb
PH
2593PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2594
0d85fa3f
PH
2595PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2596 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2597 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2598
1bf43b78
PH
2599PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2600 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2601 one case where this was not true.
2602
520de300
PH
2603PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2604 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2605 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2606 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2607 fails.
2608
48c7f9e2
PH
2609PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2610 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2611 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2612 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 2613 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
2614 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2615 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2616 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2617 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2618 smtp transport.
2619
99ea1c86
PH
2620PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2621 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2622 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2623 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2624
a2042e78
PH
2625PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2626 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2627
4fbcfc2e
PH
2628PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2629 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2630 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2631
aa41d2de
PH
2632PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2633
af561417
PH
2634PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2635
3cc66b45
PH
2636PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2637
194cc0e4
PH
2638PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2639 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2640 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2641 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2642
a401ddaa
PH
2643PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2644 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2645
4e88a19f
PH
2646PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2647 be meaningful with "accept".
2648
d7d7b289
SC
2649SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2650 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2651
2652SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2653 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2654 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2655
2656SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2657 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2658 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2659 there is data to show.
2660 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2661
2662SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2663 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2664 as well as the number of messages.
2665
2666SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2667 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2668 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2669
2670SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2671 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2672 have a flag are now skipped.
2673
2674SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2675 Added the -emptyok flag.
2676
2677SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2678 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2679
0ea2a468
JJ
2680JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2681 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 2682 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
2683
2684JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2685 match 4.64-PH/13
2686
2687JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2688 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2689
2690JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2691
2692JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2693 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2694
8a10f5a4
PH
2695PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2696
30e18802
PH
2697PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2698 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2699 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2700 contravention of the specifications.
2701
55728a4f
PH
2702PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2703 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2704 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2705
d7837193
PH
2706PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2707 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2708 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2709
87054a31
PH
2710PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2711
ea2c01d2
MH
2712MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2713 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2714 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2715 some point in the past.
2716
e4fa6968
PH
2717PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2718 transport during callout processing was broken.
2719
56f5d9bd
PH
2720PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2721 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2722
922e1c28
PH
2723PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2724 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2725
21eb6e72
PH
2726PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2727 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2728
a0540757
PH
2729PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2730
944e9e9c 2731
478be7b0
SC
2732Exim version 4.63
2733-----------------
2734
2735SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2736 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2737
2738SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2739 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2740 there is data to show.
2741 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2742
2743SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2744 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2745
2b965a65
TF
2746TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2747 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2748
45b91596
PH
2749TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2750 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2751
c59f5781
TF
2752TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2753 submissions from trusted users.
2754
90fc3069
TF
2755TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2756 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2757
6083aca0
TF
2758TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2759 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2760 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2761 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2762 there is now a framework to start from.
2763
765b530f
PH
2764PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2765 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2766 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2767
4e167a8c
PH
2768PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2769
4608d683
PH
2770PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2771
b8dc3e4a
PH
2772PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2773
5418e93b
PH
2774PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2775 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2776 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2777
b4a9bda2
PH
2778PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2779 libradius.
2780
45b91596
PH
2781PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2782 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2783 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2784
5547e2c5
PH
2785PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2786 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2787 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2788 its arguments.
2789
dbcef0ea
PH
2790PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2791 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2792 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2793 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2794 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2795
25257489
PH
2796PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2797 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2798
c816d124
PH
2799PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2800
a9ccd69a
PH
2801PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2802 operations in malware.c.
2803
75fa1910
PH
2804PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2805 signatures.
2806
a7d7aa58
PH
2807PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2808 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2809 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2810 all.
2811
42119b09
PH
2812PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2813 statements to "add_header".
2814
41609df5
PH
2815PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2816 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2817
a5bd321b
PH
2818PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2819 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2820 latter.
2821
e85a7ad5 2822PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2823 so that it is now:
2824
e85a7ad5
PH
2825 ${if or { \
2826 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2827 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2828 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2829 }{no}{yes}}
2830
e85a7ad5
PH
2831 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2832 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2833
d8fe1c03
PH
2834PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2835 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2836
16282d2b
PH
2837PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2838 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2839 any possible encoding problems.
2840
35d40a98
PH
2841PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2842 but not after initializing Perl.
2843
034d99ab
PH
2844PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2845 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2846 apparently, which is not desirable.
2847
6ec97b1b
PH
2848PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2849 queries.
2850
e22ca4ac
JJ
2851JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2852 --not options
2853
2854JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2855
33d73e3b
PH
2856PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2857 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2858 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2859 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2860
9ecb03f3
PH
2861PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2862 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2863 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2864
084efe8d
PH
2865PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2866 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2867 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2868 0.12.
2869
366fc9f0
PH
2870PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2871 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2872 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2873 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2874 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2875
c59f5781 2876
c887c79e
TF
2877Exim version 4.62
2878-----------------
2879
2880TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2881 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2882
1cce3af8
PH
2883PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2884 patch).
2885
afb3eaaf
PH
2886PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2887 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2888 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2889 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2890 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2891 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2892 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2893 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2894 451 error is used.
2895
e173618b
PH
2896PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2897
dd16e114
PH
2898PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2899 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2900 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2901
f7fd3850
PH
2902PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2903 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2904 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2905 odd errors.
2906
d87df92c
PH
2907PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2908 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2909
7e9f683d
PH
2910PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2911 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2912 option (which defaults to 0600).
2913
bfad5236
PH
2914PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2915
01c490df
PH
2916PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2917 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2918 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2919 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2920 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2921 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2922 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2923
d6629cdc
PH
2924PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2925
1cce3af8 2926
214e2000
PH
2927Exim version 4.61
2928-----------------
2929
2930PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2931 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2932 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2933 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2934 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2935 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2936 addresses as local.
2937
f9daeae0
PH
2938PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2939 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2940
7e66e54d
PH
2941PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2942
c8ea1597
PH
2943PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2944 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2945 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2946 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2947 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2948 grumble.
2949
911f6fde
PH
2950PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2951 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2952
47ca6d6c
PH
2953PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2954 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2955 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2956 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2957 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2958
ed0e9820
PH
2959PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2960 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2961 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2962 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2963
eff37e47
PH
2964PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2965 be the same on different OS.
2966
1921d2ea
PH
2967PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2968 testing.
2969
b3f69ca8
JJ
2970JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2971 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2972
2973JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2974 in 4.61-PH/06
2975
424a1c63
PH
2976PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2977 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2978 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2979 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2980 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2981 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2982 bounce message.
2983
7a100415
PH
2984PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2985 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2986 when Exim was called.
2987
19b9dc85
PH
2988PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2989 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2990
309bd837
PH
2991PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2992 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2993 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2994 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2995
59e82a2a
PH
2996PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2997 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2998 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2999 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3000 changes:
3001
3002 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3003 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3004 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3005
3006 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3007 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3008 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3009
9edc04ce
PH
3010PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3011 feature).
3012
1349e1e5
PH
3013PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3014 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3015 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3016 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3017 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3018 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3019 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3020 values from the SRV records were lost.
3021
ea49d0e1
PH
3022PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3023 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3024 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3025
064a94c9
PH
3026PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3027 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3028 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3029
727071f8
PH
3030PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3031 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3032 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3033 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3034 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3035 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3036 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3037 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3038 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3039 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3040
f78eb7c6
PH
3041PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3042 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3043 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3044
21c28500
PH
3045PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3046 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3047
3048PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3049 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3050 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3051 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3052 is given.
3053
1688f43b
PH
3054PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3055 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3056 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3057
3058PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3059 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3060 PH/23 above applies.
3061
9675b384
PH
3062PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3063 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3064 (for which there is an explicit test).
3065
6a3f1455
PH
3066PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3067
dac79d3e
PH
3068PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3069 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3070 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3071 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3072 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3073
5977a0b3
PH
3074PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3075 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3076 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3077 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3078
c91535f3
PH
3079PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3080 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3081 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3082
0d46a8c8
PH
3083PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3084
278c6e6c
PH
3085PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3086
2cbb4081
PH
3087PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3088 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3089 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3090
3eef829e
PH
3091PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3092 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3093 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3094 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3095 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3096
1ab95fa6
PH
3097PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3098 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3099 the message gets confusing).
3100
230205fc
PH
3101PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3102 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3103 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3104 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3105
75e0e026
PH
3106PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3107 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3108 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3109 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3110 same order.
3111
3112PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3113 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3114 the different processes.
3115
145396a6
PH
3116PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3117
3cd34f13
PH
3118PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3119
11121d3d
JJ
3120JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3121 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3122
3123JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3124 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3125
3126JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3127 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3128 messages matching specified criteria.
3129
8def5aaf
PH
3130PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3131
929ba01c
PH
3132PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3133 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3134
2632889e
PH
3135PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3136 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3137 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3138 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3139 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3140 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3141 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3142 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3143 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3144 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3145
944a9c55
PH
3146PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3147 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3148 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3149
4a23603b
PH
3150PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3151
4730f942
PH
3152PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3153 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3154 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3155 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3156 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3157 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3158 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3159 the variable.
3160
30dba1e6
PH
3161PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3162 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3163
382afc6b
PH
3164PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3165
a86229cf
PH
3166PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3167
50c99ba6
PH
3168PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3169
d35e429d
PH
3170PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3171 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3172 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3173 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3174 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3175 size of the count of files.
3176
f90d018c
PH
3177PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3178
75def545
PH
3179PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3180 used in LMTP mode:
3181
3182 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3183 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3184 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3185 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3186
3187 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3188 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3189 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3190
3191PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3192 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3193 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3194 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3195 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3196
c46782ef
PH
3197PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3198 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3199
71fafd95
PH
3200PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3201 will now be deprecated.
3202
2c5db4fd
PH
3203PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3204
9cf6b11a
JJ
3205JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3206 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3207 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3208
3209JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3210 with very large, slow to parse queues
3211
3212JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3213
3214JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3215
898d150f
PH
3216PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3217 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3218 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3219 SMTP output lines.
3220
46218253
PH
3221PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3222 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3223 Sieve code now uses this.
3224
e97957bc
PH
3225PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3226 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3227
81e509d7
PH
3228PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3229 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3230
3d240ff7
PH
3231PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3232
b37c4101
PH
3233PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3234 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3235 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3236 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3237 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3238
79378e0f
PH
3239PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3240 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3241 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3242 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3243
e49c7bb4
PH
3244PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3245
d114ec46
PH
3246PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3247
f3d7df6c
PH
3248PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3249 is preferred over IPv4.
3250
715ab376
PH
3251PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3252 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3253 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3254 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3255 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3256 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3257 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3258
6b31b150
PH
3259PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3260 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3261 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3262
3263PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3264
d515a917
PH
3265PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3266 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3267 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3268 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3269 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3270 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3271 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3272 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3273 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3274 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3275 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3276
9b8fadde
PH
3277PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3278 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3279 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3280
214e2000 3281
5de37277
PH
3282Exim version 4.60
3283-----------------
3284
cc38ddbf
PH
3285PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3286
3287 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3288 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3289
3290 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3291 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3292 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3293
72fdd6ae
PH
3294PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3295
3296 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3297 not a single digit.
3298
3299 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3300 string.
3301
3302 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3303 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3304 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3305 silly things.
3306
3307 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3308 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3309
3310 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3311 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3312
cb741023
PH
3313PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3314 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3315 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3316
f174f16e
PH
3317PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3318 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3319
c25242d7
PH
3320PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3321 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3322
3323 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3324
3325 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3326 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3327 this:
3328
3329 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3330
82c19f95
PH
3331PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3332 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3333 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3334 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3335 identical. For example:
3336
3337 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3338
3339 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3340 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3341 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3342
d7ffbc12
PH
3343PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3344 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3345 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3346 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3347
9f526266
PH
3348PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3349 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3350 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3351 message.
3352
87fcc8b9
PH
3353PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3354
3355 o fixes some comments
3356 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3357 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3358 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3359 and documents the missing references header update
3360
3361 and most important:
3362
3363 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3364 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3365 result)
3366
456682f5
PH
3367PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3368 Electronic Mail") by including:
3369
3370 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3371
3372 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3373 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3374 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3375 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3376 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3377
3378 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3379
3380 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3381
3382 The auto-replied keyword:
3383
3384 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3385 message by an automatic process,
3386
3387 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3388
3389 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3390 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3391
3392 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3393 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3394 other messages.
3395
3e46c1aa
PH
3396PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3397 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3398
49826d12
PH
3399PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3400
eba0c039
PH
3401PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3402 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3403 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3404
a0d6ba8a
PH
3405PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3406 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3407 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3408
f0917727
PH
3409PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3410 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3411 and treats the condition as false.
3412
096fee00
PH
3413PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3414
024bd3c2
PH
3415PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3416 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3417 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3418 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3419 not changing the active code.
3420
3421 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3422 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3423
3424 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3425 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3426
df199fec
PH
3427PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3428 (Bugzilla #53).
3429
d27f1df3
PH
3430PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3431 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3432 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3433 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3434 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3435 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3436 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3437 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3438 the text comparison.
3439
96776534
PH
3440PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3441 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3442 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3443 The same fix has been applied.
3444
5de37277 3445
9a799bc0
PH
3446Exim version 4.54
3447-----------------
3448
3449PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3450 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3451 It now does.
3452
99a4b039
PH
3453PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3454 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3455
3456PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3457
4b233853
PH
3458PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3459 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3460 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3461 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3462 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3463
8857ccfd
PH
3464TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3465 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3466 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3467 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3468 or /domain=).
3469
433a2980
PH
3470PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3471 testing suite.
3472
3e46c1aa 3473
9a799bc0 3474
e3a311ba
TK
3475Exim version 4.53
3476-----------------
3477
3478TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3479 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3480
13b685f9
PH
3481PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3482
395ff96d
PH
3483PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3484
5b68f6e4
PH
3485PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3486 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3487 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3488
1ab52c69
PH
3489PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3490 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3491 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3492
b07e6aa3
PH
3493PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3494 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3495 operating systems.
3496
254e032f
PH
3497PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3498 ${stat: expansion item.
3499
3af76a81
PH
3500PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3501 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3502
2548ba04
PH
3503PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3504 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3505 file for comments.
3506
b6c6011d
PH
3507PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3508
cf39cf57
PH
3509PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3510 setting.
3511
f1513293
PH
3512PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3513 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3514
727549a4
PH
3515TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3516
af46795e
PH
3517PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3518 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3519 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3520 the end of the subprocess.
3521
d7b47fd0
PH
3522PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3523 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3524 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3525 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3526 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3527
ee744174
JJ
3528JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3529
b582ab87
PH
3530TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3531
41a13e0a
PH
3532PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3533 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3534
f625cc5a
PH
3535PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3536
3537PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3538
21f7af35
PH
3539PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3540 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3541 HP-UX compiler.
3542
31480e42
PH
3543PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3544
2d280592
PH
3545PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3546 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3547 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3548
7cd1141b
PH
3549PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3550 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3551
3552PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3553 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3554
750af86e
PH
3555PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3556 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3557
3558 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3559 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3560
3561 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3562 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3563 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3564 contributed by a Radius user.
3565
3566PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3567 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3568
4304270b
TK
3569TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3570 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3571
750af86e
PH
3572PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3573 available.
3574
64ffc24f
PH
3575PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3576 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3577 received.
3578
5dd9625b
PH
3579PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3580 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3581 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3582 header lines when this was not necessary.
3583
5591031b
PH
3584PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3585
ba18e66a
PH
3586PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3587 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3588 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3589 exists".
3590
9cec981f
PH
3591PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3592 -bV or -d is used.
3593
aa2b5c79
PH
3594PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3595 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3596 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3597 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3598
48a53b7f
PH
3599PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3600
1c59d63b
PH
3601PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3602
671012da
TK
3603TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3604
1509d3a8
PH
3605PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3606
3607PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3608 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3609 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3610 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3611 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3612 settings.
3613
3614PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3615
2fe1a124
PH
3616PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3617 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3618 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3619 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3620 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3621 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3622 which is clearly wrong.
3623
8800895a
PH
3624PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3625
ccfdb010
PH
3626PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3627 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3628 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3629 subsequently added.
3630
1130bfb0
PH
3631PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3632 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3633
ebcb507f
PH
3634PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3635
c35e155c
PH
3636PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3637 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3638
95d1f782
PH
3639PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3640 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3641
fd6de02e
PH
3642PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3643 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3644
58de37c5
PH
3645PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3646 recipients, not senders.
3647
261cf466
TF
3648TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3649 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3650
3ee512ff
PH
3651PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3652
e08c430f
PH
3653PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3654
bef5a11f
PH
3655PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3656 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3657 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3658 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3659
7546de58
TF
3660TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3661
e5d5a95f
TF
3662TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3663 clock is set back in time.
3664
2e88a017
TF
3665TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3666 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3667
a5f65aa4
TF
3668TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3669 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3670
e7726cbf
PH
3671PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3672 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3673 (see PH/47 above).
3674
a7fdad5b
TF
3675TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3676 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3677 header rewrites.
3678
6af56900
PH
3679PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3680 type ("H").
3681
0925ede6
PH
3682PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3683
66afa403
TF
3684TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3685 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3686 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3687
0154e85a
TF
3688TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3689 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3690 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3691 helo verification defer as a failure.
3692
16f12c76
PH
3693PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3694 actual error message.
3695
bbe902f0 3696
e5a9dba6
PH
3697Exim version 4.52
3698-----------------
3699
3700TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3701
22c3b60b
PH
3702PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3703 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3704 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3705 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3706
06a9b4b5
PH
3707TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3708
c1ac6996
PH
3709PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3710 can still be requested.
3711
9c7a242c
PH
3712PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3713 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3714 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3715 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3716
87ba3f5f
PH
3717TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3718 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3719 circumstances, but probably never did.
3720
3721PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3722 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3723 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3724 in the header line.
3725
29aba418
TF
3726TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3727
fe0dab11
TF
3728TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3729 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3730
11d337a4
TK
3731TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3732
3733TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3734
415c8f3b
PH
3735PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3736 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3737 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 3738 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
3739 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3740 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3741
958541e9
PH
3742PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3743 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3744 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3745 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3746 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3747 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3748
c206415f
TK
3749TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3750 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3751
2a4be8f9
PH
3752PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3753 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3754
1cba11c5
SC
3755SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3756 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3757
4c04137d 3758SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
3759
3760SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3761
3762SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3763
3764SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3765
3766SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3767
3768SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3769
1005d00e
TK
3770TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3771
3772TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3773 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3774 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3775
3776TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3777 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3778 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3779 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3780
9b4768fa
PH
3781PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3782 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3783 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3784
3785PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3786 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3787 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3788 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3789
0d7eb84a
PH
3790PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3791 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3792 to be made).
3793
3794PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3795 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3796 should work with maildirs and everything.
3797
40727bee
TK
3798TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3799 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3800
554d2369
TF
3801TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3802 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3803
1f922db1
PH
3804PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3805 function for BDB 4.3.
3806
ef213c3b
PH
3807PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3808
8ac170f3
PH
3809PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3810 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3811 involved.
3812
b1c749bb
PH
3813PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3814 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3815 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3816 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3817 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3818 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3819
4aac9b49
PH
3820PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3821 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3822 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3823 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3824 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3825 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3826 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3827 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3828
294520c8
TK
3829TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3830 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3831 details.
3832
5bd022fe
PH
3833PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3834 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3835
90e9ce59
PH
3836PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3837 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3838 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3839 test. It is now used for both.
3840
5ea81592
PH
3841PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3842 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3843 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3844 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3845 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3846 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3847
c6c2dc1d
PH
3848PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3849 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3850 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3851 string_vformat().
3852
fffffe4c
PH
3853PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3854 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3855 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3856
9a26b6b2
PH
3857PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3858 experimental DomainKeys support:
3859
3860 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3861 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3862 the control was given.
3863
3864 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3865
4aee0225
PH
3866PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3867
32d668a5
PH
3868PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3869
8187c3f3
PH
3870PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3871 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3872 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3873 db.h files).
3874
ff790e47 3875PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3876 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3877 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3878 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3879 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3880 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3881 course.
ff790e47 3882
5417f6d1
PH
3883PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3884 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3885 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3886 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3887 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3888 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3889
59cf8544
PH
3890PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3891 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3892 do -d+all out of habit.
3893
e7ad8a65
PH
3894PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3895 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3896 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3897
ade42478
PH
3898PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3899 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3900 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3901 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3902 record types that Exim uses.
3903
182ad5cf
PH
3904PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3905 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3906 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3907 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3908 non-existent file that was broken.
3909
b0d9fc80
TK
3910TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3911 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3912
3913TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3914 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3915 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3916
3917TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3918
47c7a64a
PH
3919PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3920 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3921 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3922 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3923 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3924 same time.
3925
a388bce4
SC
3926SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3927 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3928 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3929 at a slight CPU cost.
3930
3931SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3932 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3933
3934SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3935 by Marc Sherman.
3936
0793e4ed
SC
3937SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3938
c58b88df
PH
3939PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3940 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3941
e7ad8a65 3942
7982096b
PH
3943Exim version 4.51
3944-----------------
3945
1a46a8c5
PH
3946TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3947 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3948
2f079f46 3949TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3950
3951TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3952
3953PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3954 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3955
3956PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3957 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3958 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3959 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3960 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3961 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3962 file.
3963
3964PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3965 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3966 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3967 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3968 these two options.
3969
3970PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3971 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3972 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3973 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3974 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3975 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3976 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3977 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3978
3979PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3980 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3981
3982PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3983 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3984 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3985 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3986 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3987 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3988
3989PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3990 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3991 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3992 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3993
3994PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3995 Finch).
3996
3997PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3998 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3999
49c2d5ea
PH
4000PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4001 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4002 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4003 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4004 message.
49c2d5ea 4005
bf759a8b
PH
4006PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4007
83364d30
PH
4008PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4009 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4010
7999bbd7
PH
4011PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4012 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4013 to what was transported.)
4014
7dbf77c9
PH
4015TF/01 Added $received_time.
4016
74e0617f
PH
4017PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4018 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4019 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4020 spamd_address settings.
4021
2f079f46
PH
4022PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4023 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4024 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4025 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4026 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4027
8c841523
PH
4028PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4029
7766a4f0
PH
4030PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4031 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4032 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4033 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4034 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4035
8b417f2c
PH
4036PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4037 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4038
901f42cb
PH
4039PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4040 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4041 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4042 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4043 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4044 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4045 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4046 for failure.
4047
f9b9210e
PH
4048PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4049 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4050 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4051 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4052 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4053 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4054 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4055 "input=".
4056
54cdb463
PH
4057PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4058
cf00dad6
PH
4059PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4060 driver and ACL definitions.
4061
acb1b346
PH
4062PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4063 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4064
c5ddb310
PH
4065PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4066 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4067 understands it better than I do:
4068
4069 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4070 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4071
4072 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4073 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4074 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4075 => three warnings about OTP not working
4076 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4077
4078 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4079 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4080 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4081 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4082 for each call.)
4083 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4084 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4085
4086 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4087 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4088 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4089
31619da6
PH
4090PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4091 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4092 specified.
4093
bebaf0fc
PH
4094PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4095 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4096 "Linux".
4097
475fe28a
PH
4098PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4099 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4100 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4101
4102 warn !verify = sender
4103 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4104
4105 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4106 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4107
7e8bec7a
PH
4108PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4109
4110 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4111 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4112
4113 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4114 nomenclature these days.)
4115
e4a89c47
PH
4116PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4117 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4118
5ca2a9a1
PH
4119PH/30 In these circumstances:
4120 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4121 . First host does not offer TLS;
4122 . First host accepts first address;
4123 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4124 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4125 . Second host accepts second address.
4126 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4127 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4128 address.
7e8bec7a 4129
c688b954
PH
4130PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4131 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4132 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4133 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4134 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4135
fed77020
PH
4136PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4137 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4138
7fe1560f
PH
4139PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4140 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4141
ebb6e6d5
PH
4142PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4143 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4144 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4145
9c4e8f60
PH
4146PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4147 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4148 overlooked.
4149
4150PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4151
d7174846
PH
4152PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4153 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4154 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4155 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4156 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4157 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4158 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4159
4160 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4161 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4162 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4163 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4164 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4165
4166 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4167 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4168 routed further.
4169
cfe75fc3
PH
4170PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4171 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4172 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4173 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4174 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4175 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4176
be22d70e
PH
4177PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4178
0612b098
PH
4179PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4180 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4181 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4182 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4183 printable escape sequences.
4184
2e0c1448
PH
4185PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4186 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4187 body only.
4188
447d236c
PH
4189PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4190 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4191 are as follows:
4192
4193 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4194 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4195 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4196 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4197 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4198
4199 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4200 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4201 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4202
d20976dc
PH
4203PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4204
f656d135
PH
4205PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4206 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4207 play with."
4208
2e2a30b4
PH
4209PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4210 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4211 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4212 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4213 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4214 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4215 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4216 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4217 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4218 the log output.
4219
9176e9f0
PH
4220PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4221 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4222 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4223 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4224 "make".
4225
7982096b 4226
bbe902f0
PH
4227A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4228----------------------------------------
4229
4230Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4231changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4232needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4233in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4234that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4235release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4236from 4.43.
4237
4238I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
42394.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4240those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4241historical information.
4242
4243
f7b63901 4244Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4245-----------------
4246
5fe762f6
PH
4247 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4248
139059f6 4249 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4250 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4251
7086e875
PH
4252 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4253 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4254 place.
4255
35af9f61
PH
4256 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4257 filter fails to execute.
4258
b668c215
PH
4259 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4260 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4261 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4262 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4263 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4264
a494b1e1
PH
4265 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4266
4267 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4268 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4269 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4270 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4271
c5fcb476
PH
4272 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4273 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4274 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4275 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4276 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4277
69358f02
PH
4278 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4279
5be20824
PH
428010. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4281
eb2c0248
PH
428211. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4283 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4284 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4285 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4286
2a3eea10
PH
428712. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4288 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4289 sender verification.
4290
429113. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4292 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4293
23c7ff99
PH
429414. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4295
4deaf07d
PH
429615. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4297 connection timeout.
4298
926e1192
PH
429916. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4300 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4301
650edc6f
PH
430217. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4303 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4304
2c7db3f5
PH
430518. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4306 information about exactly what failed.
4307
3d235903
PH
430819. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4309
7c7ad977
PH
431020. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4311 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4312 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4313
981756db
PH
431421. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4315 It is now set to "smtps".
4316
d4eb88df
PH
431722. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4318 ignore_target_hosts.
4319
432023. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4321 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4322 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4323 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4324 "[x.x.x.x]".
4325
7d468ab8
PH
432624. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4327 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4328 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4329
433025. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4331 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4332 wake it up if nothing else does.
4333
62c0818f
PH
433426. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4335 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4336 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4337 end up negative.
4338
26034054
PH
433927. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4340 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4341
af66f652
PH
434228. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4343
90af77f4
PH
434429. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4345 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4346 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4347 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4348 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4349 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4350 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4351 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4352
d8ef3577
PH
435330. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4354 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4355 than one IP address.
4356
5cb8cbc6
PH
435731. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4358 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4359 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4360 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4361
14702f5b
PH
436232. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4363 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4364 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4365 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4366 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4367 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4368
063b1e99
PH
436933. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4370 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4371 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4372 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4373
652e1b65
PH
437434. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4375 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4376 respected.
4377
6f0c9a4f
PH
437835. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4379 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4380 $sender_host_address.
4381
33397d19
PH
438236. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4383 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4384 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4385 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4386 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4387 very small.
4388
7bb56e1f
PH
438937. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4390
4391 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4392 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4393
ea3bc19b
PH
4394 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4395 just the host names, not the priorities.
4396
4397 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4398 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4399 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4400
ea3bc19b 4401 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4402 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4403
0bcb2a0e
PH
440438. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4405 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4406 domain.
4407
2ac0e484
PH
440839. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4409
4e1fde53
PH
441040. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4411 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4412
de365ded
PH
441341. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4414 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4415 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4416
f05da2e8
PH
441742. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4418
d6453af2
PH
441943. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4420
f7b63901
PH
442144. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4422
442345. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4424 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4425 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4426 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4427 because the tests only now provoked it.
4428
a444213a
PH
442946. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4430 (this can affect the format of dates).
4431
0ec020ea
PH
443247. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4433 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4434 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4435 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4436
b1206957
PH
443748. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4438
443949. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4440 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4441 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4442 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4443
26dd5a95
PH
444450. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4445 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4446 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4447
343b2385
PH
444851. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4449 autoreply.
4450
1c5466b9
PH
445152. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4452 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4453 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4454 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4455 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4456 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4457 is going on).
4458
55ee9ee3
PH
445953. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4460 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4461 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4462 the line.
4463
d38f8232
PH
446454. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4465 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4466 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4467
4468 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4469 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4470 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4471 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4472 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4473 so I produce this patch..."
4474
3295e65b
PH
4475 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4476 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4477 is not defined.
4478
7102e136
PH
447955. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4480 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4481 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4482 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4483 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4484
3ca0ba97
PH
448556. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4486
c2bcbe20
PH
448757. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4488 long debug lines gets shown.
4489
18ce445d
PH
449058. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4491 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4492
1f5b4c3d
PH
449359. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4494
4495 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4496 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4497 of $primary_hostname.
4498
b975ba52
PH
449960. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4500 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4501 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4502 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4503 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4504 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4505 by change 4.50/55 above.
4506
4507 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4508 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4509 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4510 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4511 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4512 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4513 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4514
451561. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4516 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4517 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4518 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4519
17ffcae7
PH
452062. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4521 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4522
d95f9fdb
PH
452363. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4524 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4525 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4526 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4527 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4528
86b8287f
PH
452964. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4530 This has been fixed.
4531
60dc5e56
PH
453265. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4533 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4534 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4535 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4536 the caching.)
4537
533244af
PH
453866. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4539
a5a28604
PH
454067. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4541 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4542 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4543 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4544
7e634d24
PH
454568. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4546 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4547
3e11c26b
PH
454869. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4549 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4550 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4551
6729cf78
PH
455270. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4553 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4554 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4555 message there.
4556
00f00ca5
PH
455771. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4558 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4559 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4560
c9bdd01c
PH
456172. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4562 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4563 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4564 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4565
d43194df
PH
456673. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4567 during host lookups.
4568
fe5b5d0b
PH
456974. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4570 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4571
4572 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4573
76a2d7ba
PH
457475. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4575 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4576 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4577 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4578 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4579 background.
4580
458176. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4582 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4583
04f7d5b9
PH
458477. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4585 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4586 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4587
bc60667e
PH
458878. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4589
bb6e88ff
PH
459079. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4591 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4592 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4593 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4594 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4595 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4596 process earlier.
4597
1e70f85b
PH
459880. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4599 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4600 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4601 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4602 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4603
460481. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4605 tables).
4606
4e01f9d6
PH
460782. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4608
1ee1cef2
PH
460983. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4610 "vacation" handling.
4611
6e2b4ccc
PH
461284. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4613 OS variants using glibc.
4614
8e669ac1
PH
461585. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4616
495ae4b0 4617
bbe902f0
PH
4618----------------------------------------------------
4619See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4620----------------------------------------------------
4621
4622
4623Exim version 4.44
4624-----------------
4625
4626 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4627 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4628 transport
4629
4630 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4631 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4632 place.
4633
4634 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4635 filter fails to execute.
4636
4637 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4638 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4639 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4640 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4641 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4642
4643 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4644 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4645 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4646 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4647
4648 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4649 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4650 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4651 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4652 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4653
4654 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4655
4656 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4657 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4658 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4659 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4660
4661 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4662 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4663 sender verification.
4664
466510. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4666 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4667
466811. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4669 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4670
467112. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4672 ignore_target_hosts.
4673
467413. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4675 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4676 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4677 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4678 "[x.x.x.x]".
4679
468014. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4681 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4682 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4683
468415. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4685 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4686 wake it up if nothing else does.
4687
468816. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4689 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4690 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4691 end up negative.
4692
469317. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4694 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4695
ea3a6f44 469618. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4697
469819. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4699 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4700 empty pattern.
4701
470220. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4703 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4704 one IP address.
4705
ea3a6f44
NM
470621. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4707 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4708 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4709 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4710 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4711 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4712
ea3a6f44
NM
471322. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4714 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4715 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4716
471723. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4718 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4719 $sender_host_address.
4720
472124. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4722
ea3a6f44
NM
472325. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4724 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4725 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4726
472726. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4728 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4729
ea3a6f44
NM
473027. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4731 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4732
ea3a6f44
NM
473328. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4734 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4735 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4736 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4737
473829. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4739 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4740 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4741
ea3a6f44
NM
474230. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4743 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4744 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4745 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4746
ea3a6f44
NM
474731. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4748 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4749 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4750
ea3a6f44
NM
475131. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4752 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4753
ea3a6f44
NM
475432. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4755 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4756 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4757 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4758 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4759 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4760 is going on).
bbe902f0 4761
ea3a6f44
NM
476233. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4763 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4764 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4765 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4766 CAN-2005-0021
4767
ea3a6f44
NM
476834. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4769 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4770 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4771 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4772 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4773 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4774 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4775
4776 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4777 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4778 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4779 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4780 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4781 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4782 CAN-2005-0021
4783
ea3a6f44
NM
478435. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4785 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4786 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4787 CAN-2005-0022
4788
ea3a6f44
NM
478936. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4790 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4791 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4792 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4793 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4794
ea3a6f44
NM
479537. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4796 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4797 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4798 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4799 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4800
ea3a6f44
NM
480138. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4802 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4803 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4804 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4805 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4806
4807
495ae4b0
PH
4808Exim version 4.43
4809-----------------
4810
4811 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4812 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4813 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4814 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4815 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4816 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4817 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4818
4819 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4820 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4821 the delivery.
4822
4823 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4824
4825 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4826
4827 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4828 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4829 to local_scan().
4830
4831 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4832 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4833 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4834 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4835 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4836
4837 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4838 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4839
4840 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4841
4842 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4843
484410. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4845 header_sender only.
4846
484711. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4848 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4849
485012. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4851 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4852 affecting debugging statements).
4853
485413. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4855
485614. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4857 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4858 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4859 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4860 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4861 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4862 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4863 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4864 after the received time, and all would be well.
4865
486615. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4867 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4868 condition in an expansion string.
4869
487016. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4871
487217. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4873 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4874 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4875 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4876 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4877 job under whatever limits there are.
4878
487918. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4880
488119. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4882 space).
4883
488420. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4885 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4886 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4887 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4888 return path is set.
4889
489021. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4891 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4892 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4893 binary data in such strings.
4894
489522. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4896
489723. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4898 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4899 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4900 failure, which is pointless.
4901
490224. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4903
490425. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4905
490626. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4907 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4908 Sender: header lines.
4909
491027. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4911 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4912 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4913
491428. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4915 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4916 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4917 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4918 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4919 happens.
4920
492129. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4922 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4923 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4924 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4925 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4926
492730. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4928 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4929 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4930 1024.
4931
493231. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4933 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4934
493532. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4936 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4937
493833. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4939
494032. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4941
494233. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4943
494434. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4945 syntax error.
4946
494735. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4948
494936. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4950
495137. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4952 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4953 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4954 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4955
495638. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4957 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4958
4959
4960Exim version 4.42
4961-----------------
4962
4963 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4964 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4965 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4966 it was not quoted.
4967 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4968 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4969 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4970 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4971 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4972 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4973
4974 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4975 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4976 verification failure".
4977
4978 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4979 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4980 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4981 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4982
4983 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4984 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4985 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4986 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4987 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4988 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4989 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4990 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4991 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4992 treated as a timeout.
4993
4994 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4995 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4996 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4997 not set for Exim filters).
4998
4999 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5000 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5001 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5002
5003 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5004
5005 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5006 try to make them clearer.
5007
5008 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5009 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5010
5011 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5012
5013 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5014
501510. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5016 only the Cygwin environment.
5017
501811. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5019 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5020 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5021 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5022 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5023
502412. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5025 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5026 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5027 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5028 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5029 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5030 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5031
503213. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5033 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5034
503514. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5036
5037 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5038 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5039 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5040
5041 To: susanne@some.where
5042
5043 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5044 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5045 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5046 of addresses in From: header lines).
5047
5048 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5049 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5050 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5051
5052 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5053 treated as non-personal.
5054
5055 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5056 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5057
505815. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5059
506016. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5061
506217. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5063 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5064 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5065
506618. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5067 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5068
506919. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5070 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5071 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5072 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5073 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5074 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5075
507620. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5077 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5078 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5079 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5080 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5081 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5082 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5083 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5084
5085 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5086
508721. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5088 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5089
509022. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5091 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5092 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5093
509423. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5095 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5096
509724. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5098 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5099 rather than long int.
5100
510125. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5102
510326. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5104
5105
5106Exim version 4.41
5107-----------------
5108
5109 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5110 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5111 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5112 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5113 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5114 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5115
5116
5117Exim version 4.40
5118-----------------
5119
5120 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5121 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5122
5123 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5124 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5125 socklen_t is defined.
5126
5127 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5128 always exist.
5129
5130 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5131 configured.
5132
5133 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5134 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5135 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5136 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5137 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5138
5139 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5140 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5141 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5142 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5143
5144 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5145 of flapping under certain conditions.
5146
5147 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5148 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5149 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5150
5151 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5152
515310. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5154
515511. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5156 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5157 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5158 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5159
516012. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5161 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5162 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5163 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5164 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5165 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5166 preserved with the message after it was received.
5167
516813. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5169 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5170 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5171 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5172 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5173 test suite worked just fine.
5174
517514. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5176 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5177 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5178
517915. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5180 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5181 string.
5182
518316. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5184 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5185 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5186 does not fully solve it.
5187
518817. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5189 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5190 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5191 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5192 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5193
519418. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5195 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5196 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5197
519819. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5199 string, for example:
5200
5201 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5202
5203 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5204 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5205 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5206 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5207 the routers could not see them.
5208
520920. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5210 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5211
521221. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5213 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5214 output).
5215
521622. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5217 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5218 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5219 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5220 that needed quoting.
5221
522223. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5223 was not being matched caselessly.
5224
522524. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5226 backslashes.
5227
522825. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5229 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5230 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5231 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5232 when use_sender is false.
5233
523426. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5235
523627. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5237
523828. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5239
524029. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5241 the configuration file.
5242
524330. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5244 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5245
524631. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5247
524832. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5249 bytes in the message body.
5250
525133. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5252 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5253 delivery.
5254
525534. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5256
525735. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5258
525936. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5260 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5261 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5262 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5263 another IP address.
5264
5265
5266Exim version 4.34
5267-----------------
5268
5269 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5270 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5271
5272 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5273 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5274 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5275 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5276 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5277
5278 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5279 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5280
5281 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5282 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5283 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5284
5285 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5286 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5287 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5288
5289 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5290 for routers.
5291
5292 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5293 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5294 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5295 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5296 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5297 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5298 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5299
5300
5301Exim version 4.33
5302-----------------
5303
5304 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5305 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5306 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5307 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5308 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5309 default (and expected) setting.
5310
5311 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5312 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5313 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5314 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5315
5316 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5317 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5318
5319 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5320 in domain lists.
5321
5322 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5323 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5324 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5325 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5326 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5327 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5328
5329 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5330 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5331 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5332
5333 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5334 part (NOT match_host).
5335
5336 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5337
5338 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5339 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5340 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5341 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5342 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5343 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5344 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5345 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5346 the same named file.
5347
534810. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5349 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5350 when Exim is built.
5351
535211. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5353 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5354 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5355 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5356 a host name.
5357
535812. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5359 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5360 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5361
536213. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5363
536414. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5365
536615. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5367
536816. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5369 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5370
537117. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5372 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5373 before starting the TLS session.
5374
537518. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5376
537719. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5378 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5379
538020. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5381 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5382 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5383 colon in the middle).
5384
5385
5386Exim version 4.32
5387-----------------
5388
5389 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5390 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5391 multiple configurations are in use.
5392
5393 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5394 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5395 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5396 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5397 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5398 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5399
5400 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5401 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5402
5403 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5404 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5405 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5406
5407 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5408 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5409 occurs.
5410
5411 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5412 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5413
5414 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5415
5416 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5417 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5418
5419 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5420
5421 -prval:sval
5422
5423 is equivalent to
5424
5425 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5426
5427 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5428 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5429 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5430 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5431 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5432
543310. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5434 Exim's behaviour:
5435
5436 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5437 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5438 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5439 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5440 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5441 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5442
5443 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5444 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5445 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5446 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5447 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5448 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5449 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5450 string.
5451
5452 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5453 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5454 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5455 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5456 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5457
545811. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5459
546012. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5461 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5462 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5463
546413. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5465
546614. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5467 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5468 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5469 information.
5470
547115. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5472 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5473
547416. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5475 Three changes have been made:
5476
5477 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5478 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5479 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5480 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5481 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5482
5483 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5484 been restored.
5485
5486 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5487 the modified behaviour.
5488
5489
5490Exim version 4.31
5491-----------------
5492
5493 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5494 Larry Rosenman.
5495
5496 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5497 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5498
5499 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5500 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5501 try to track down a specific problem.
5502
5503 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5504 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5505 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5506
5507 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5508 warning.
5509
5510 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5511 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5512 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5513 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5514 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5515 some earlier ones do not.
5516
5517 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5518
5519 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5520 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5521 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5522 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5523 address literals are enabled, of course).
5524
5525 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5526
552710. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5528 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5529 by a command such as
5530
5531 exim -f "" ...
5532
5533 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5534
553511. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5536
553712. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5538 remained set. It is now erased.
5539
554013. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5541 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5542
554314. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5544 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5545 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5546 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5547 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5548 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5549 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5550 appropriate error code.
5551
555215. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5553 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5554 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5555 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5556 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5557 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5558
555916. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5560 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5561 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5562
556317. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5564 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5565 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5566 terminate the header.
5567
556818. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5569 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5570 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5571
557219. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5573 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5574 (4.30/29). In particular:
5575
5576 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5577 imposed.
5578
5579 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5580 to write a maildirsize file.
5581
5582 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5583 the transport, the new value overrides.
5584
5585 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5586 count.
5587
558820. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5589 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5590 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5591 space or a tab.
5592
559321. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5594 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5595 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5596 the fallback hosts.
5597
559822. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5599 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5600 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5601
560223. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5603 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5604 using a union.
5605
560624. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5607 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5608 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5609
561025. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5611
561226. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5613
561427. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5615
561628. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5617 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5618 become corrupted.
5619
562029. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5621 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5622 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5623 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5624 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5625 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5626 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5627 too great.
5628
562930. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5630 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5631 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5632 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5633 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5634 incorrectly.
5635
563631. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5637 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5638 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5639 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5640 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5641 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5642 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5643 cached value only when the same options are set.
5644
564532. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5646
564733. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5648 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5649 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5650 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5651 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5652
565334: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5654 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5655 it is clearly obsolete.
5656
565735. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5658 transport.
5659
566036. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5661 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5662 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5663 times.
5664
566537. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5666 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5667 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5668 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5669 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5670
567138. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5672 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5673 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5674 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5675
567639. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5677
5678 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5679
5680 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5681 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5682 2^31.
5683
568440. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5685 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5686 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5687 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5688 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5689 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5690 $localpart_data.
5691
569241. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5693 with the -f command-line option.
5694
569542. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5696 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5697 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5698 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5699 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5700 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5701
570243. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5703 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5704 line.
5705
570644. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5707 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5708 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5709 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5710 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5711 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5712 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5713 buffer is too small.
5714
571545. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5716 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5717
571846. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5719 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5720 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5721 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5722 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5723 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5724 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5725 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5726 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5727
572847. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5729 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5730 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5731
573248. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5733 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5734 ACL").
5735
573649. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5737 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5738 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5739 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5740 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5741
574250. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5743 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5744 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5745 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5746 is set.
5747
574851. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5749
575052. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5751
575253. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5753 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5754
575554. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5756 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5757 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5758
575955. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5760 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5761 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5762 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5763 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5764
576556. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5766 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5767 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5768 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5769 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5770 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5771 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5772
577357. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5774 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5775 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5776 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5777 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5778 the test of how many are available.
5779
578058. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5781 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5782 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 5783 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
495ae4b0
PH
5784 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5785 new message is started.
5786
578759. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5788 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5789
579060. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5791 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5792
579361. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5794 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5795 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5796 is no long logged.
5797
579862. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5799 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5800 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5801 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5802 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5803 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5804 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5805
580663. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5807 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5808 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5809 interpreted as octal.
5810
581164. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5812 setting.
5813
581465. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5815 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5816 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5817 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5818 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5819 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5820
582166. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5822 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5823 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5824 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5825
5826 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5827 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5828 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5829 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5830
5831 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5832 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5833 is a bug fix.
5834
5835 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5836 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5837
583867. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5839
584068. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5841 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5842 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5843 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5844
584569. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5846 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5847 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5848 supplied", which is not helpful.
5849
585070. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5851 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5852 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5853
585471. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5855 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5856 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5857 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5858 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5859 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5860 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5861 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5862
586372. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5864 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5865 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5866 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5867 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5868
586973. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5870 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5871 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5872 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 5873 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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5874 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5875
587674. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5877 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5878 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5879
588075. Added write_rejectlog option.
5881
588276. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5883 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5884 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5885 variables.
5886
588777. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5888
588978. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5890 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5891 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5892 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5893 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5894 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5895 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5896 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5897
589879. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5899 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5900 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5901 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5902 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5903
590480. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5905 Haardt.
5906
590781. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5908 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5909 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5910 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5911 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5912 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5913 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5914 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5915 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5916
5917
5918Exim version 4.30
5919-----------------
5920
5921 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5922 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5923 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5924
5925 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5926 fixed.
5927
5928 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5929 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5930 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5931
5932 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5933 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5934 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5935 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5936 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 5937 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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5939 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5940 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5941 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5942 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5943 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5944 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5945 the Exim test suite.
5946
5947 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5948 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5949 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5950 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5951
5952 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5953 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5954 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5955 specify it in this variable.
5956
5957 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5958 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5959 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5960 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5961
5962 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5963 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5964 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5965 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5966
5967 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5968 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5969 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5970 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5971 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5972
5973 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5974
597510. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5976 they are logged.
5977
597811. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5979 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5980 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5981 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5982 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5983
598412. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5985 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5986
598713. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5988 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 5989 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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5990 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5991 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5992
599314. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5994 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5995
599615. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5997 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5998 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5999
600016. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6001 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6002
600317. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6004 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6005
600618. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6007 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6008 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6009
601019. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6011 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6012
601320. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6014 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6015 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6016 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6017
601821. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6019
602022. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6021 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6022 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6023 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6024
602523. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6026
602724. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6028 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6029
603025. Added .include_if_exists.
6031
603226. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6033 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6034 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6035 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6036 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6037 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6038
603927. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6040
604128. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6042 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6043 this.
6044
604529. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6046
604730. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6048 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6049
6050 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6051 550 Sender verify failed
6052
6053 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6054 the final line of the response.
6055
605631. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6057 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6058 all other user lookups.
6059
606032. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6061 delivery time.
6062
606333. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6064 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6065 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6066 result into an int without checking.
6067
606834. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6069 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6070 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6071
607235. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6073 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6074 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6075 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6076
607736. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6078 correctly.
6079
608037. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6081 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6082
608338. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6084 to the empty sender.
6085
608639. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6087 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6088 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6089 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6090 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6091 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6092 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6093 panic log.
6094
609540. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6096 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6097 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6098 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6099 used.
6100
610141. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6102 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6103
610442. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6105 timestamps.
6106
610743. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6108 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6109
611044. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6111
611245. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6113 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6114 logs.
6115
611646. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6117 as soon as it is encountered.
6118
611947. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6120
612148. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6122 rewritten to "<>".
6123
612449. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6125 recognizes a tab character.
6126
612750. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6128 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6129 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6130 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6131
613251. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6133
613452. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6135 crash.
6136
613753. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6138
613954. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6140
614155. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6142 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6143 2822.
6144
614556. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6146 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6147 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6148 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6149 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6150
615157. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6152 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6153
615458. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6155 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6156 list (.included file names were always shown).
6157
615859. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6159 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6160 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6161 root at that time.
6162
616360. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6164 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6165
616661. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6167
616862. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6169
617063. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6171
617264. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6173 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6174 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6175 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6176 failures to open the logs.
6177
617865. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6179 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6180 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6181 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6182 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6183 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6184 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6185
6186
6187Exim version 4.24
6188-----------------
6189
6190 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6191 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6192 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6193 change 4.23/1.
6194
6195 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6196 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6197 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6198
6199 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6200 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6201 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6202
6203 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6204 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6205 causing some misleading effects.
6206
6207 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6208 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6209 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6210
6211 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6212 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6213 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6214 queue-runner function directly.
6215
6216
6217Exim version 4.23
6218-----------------
6219
6220 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6221 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6222
6223 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6224 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6225 was always written to the default place.
6226
6227 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6228 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6229 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6230
6231 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6232
6233 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6234
6235 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6236 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6237 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6238
6239 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6240 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6241 must start.
6242
6243 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6244 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6245 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6246
6247 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6248 command line option is disabled.
6249
6250 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6251 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6252
6253 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6254
6255 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6256
6257 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6258 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6259
626010. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6261
626211. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6263 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6264 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6265 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6266 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6267 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6268
626912. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6270 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6271 timeout.
6272
627313. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6274 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6275
627614. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6277 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6278
627915. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6280 received was valid base64.
6281
628216. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6283 name of the variable that was being set.
6284
628517. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6286
628718. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6288 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6289 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6290 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6291 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6292 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6293
629419. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6295
629620. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6297 nor realm was specified.
6298
629921. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6300 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6301 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6302 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6303
630422. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6305 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6306 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6307
630823. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6309 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6310 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6311
631224. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6313 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6314 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6315 some systems use these upper case variants.
6316
631725. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6318 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6319 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6320 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6321
632226. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6323
632427. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6325 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6326
632728. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6328 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6329 expansion variable.
6330
633129. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6332
633330. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6334 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6335 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6336 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6337
633831. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6339 using it.
6340
634132. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6342 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6343 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6344
634533. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6346 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6347
634834. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6349 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6350 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6351 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6352
635335. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6354 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6355 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6356
635736. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6358
635937. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6360 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6361 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6362 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6363 aborted.
6364
636538. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6366 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6367 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6368
636939. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6370
637140. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6372 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6373
637441. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6375 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6376
637742. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6378 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6379 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6380 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6381 when emails are that large.
6382
6383
6384
6385Exim version 4.22
6386-----------------
6387
6388 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6389 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6390
6391 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6392 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6393 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6394
6395 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6396 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6397 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6398
6399 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6400 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6401 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6402 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6403 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6404
6405 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6406 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6407 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6408 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6409 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6410 ever.
6411
6412 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6413 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6414 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6415 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6416 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6417 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6418 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6419 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6420 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6421 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6422 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6423 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6424 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6425 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6426
6427 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6428 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6429 parameterised it.
6430
6431 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6432 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6433 error should be diagnosed.
6434
6435 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6436 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6437 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6438 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6439 appeared instead of "NULL".
6440
644110. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6442 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6443 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6444 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6445 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6446 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6447 proceeds).
6448
6449 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6450 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6451 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6452
6453
6454Exim version 4.21
6455-----------------
6456
6457 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6458 or receiver verification errors.
6459
6460 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6461 name.
6462
6463 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6464 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6465 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6466 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6467
6468 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6469 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6470 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6471 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6472 shouldn't happen again.
6473
6474 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6475 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6476 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6477
6478 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6479 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6480
6481 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6482
6483 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6484 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6485
6486 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6487 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6488 RFC.
6489
649010. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6491 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6492 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6493
649411. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6495 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6496 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6497 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6498
649912. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6500 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6501 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6502 to define what should happen).
6503
650413. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6505 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6506 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6507
650814. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6509
651015. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6511
651216. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6513 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6514
4c04137d 651517. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
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6516 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6517 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6518 structure in all cases.
6519
6520 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6521 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6522 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6523 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6524
652518. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6526 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6527 domain name.
6528
652919. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6530 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6531
653220. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6533 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6534
653521. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6536 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6537 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6538
653922. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6540 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6541 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6542
654323. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6544 the book and for uniformity.
6545
654624. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6547
654825. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 6549 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
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6550 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6551 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6552 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6553 non-existent command as the problem.
6554
655526. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6556 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6557 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6558
655927. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6560
656128. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6562 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6563 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6564
656529. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6566 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6567 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6568 timestamps using strftime().
6569
657030. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6571 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6572
657332. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6574 transport-time rewrites.
6575
657633. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6577 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6578 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6579 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6580
658134. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6582 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6583
658435. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6585 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6586 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6587 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6588 comma and a space.
6589
659036. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6591 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6592 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6593 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6594 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6595 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6596 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6597
659837. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6599 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6600 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6601 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6602 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6603
660438. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6605 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6606 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6607 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6608 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6609 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6610 remaining text gets split now.
6611
661239. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6613 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6614 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6615 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6616
661740. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6618 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6619 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6620 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6621 $return_path.
6622
662341. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6624 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6625 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6626 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6627 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6628 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6629 passed through if needed.
6630
663142. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6632 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6633 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6634 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6635 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6636 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6637
663843. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6639 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6640 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6641 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6642 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6643
664444. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6645 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6646 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6647 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6648 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6649
665045. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6651 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6652 noticed.
6653
665446. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6655 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6656 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6657 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6658 mayhem of various kinds.
6659
666047. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6661 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 6662 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
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6663 the right test for positive values.
6664
666548. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6666 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6667 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6668 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6669 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6670 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6671 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6672 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6673 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6674 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6675 envelope.
6676
667749. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6678 module.
6679
668050. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6681 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6682 forbidding it.
6683
668451. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6685 the existing equality matching.
6686
668752. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6688 dealing with inode numbers.
6689
669053. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6691 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6692 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6693
669454. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6695 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6696 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6697 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6698 local_scan().
6699
670055. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6701 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6702 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6703 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6704 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6705 relay addresses has also been removed.
6706
670756. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6708
670957. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6710 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6711 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6712
671358. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6714 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6715 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6716 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6717 processing applies to CR:
6718
6719 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6720 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6721
6722 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6723 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6724 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6725 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6726
672759. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6728 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6729 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6730
673160. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6732 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6733 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6734 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6735 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6736 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6737 arisen.
6738
673961. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6740 program routers.
6741
674262. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6743 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6744 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6745 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6746 adds:
6747
6748 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6749
6750 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6751
6752 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6753
675463. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6755 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6756 not considered personal.
6757
675864. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6759
676065. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6761
676266. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6763
676467. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6765 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6766 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6767 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6768 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6769 header lines, and spool format errors.
6770
677168. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6772 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6773 for more flexibility.
6774
677569. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6776 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6777 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6778
677970. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6780 Sabourenkov.
6781
678271. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6783 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6784 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6785 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6786 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6787 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6788 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6789 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6790 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6791
679272. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6793 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6794 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6795 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6796 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6797 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6798 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6799
680073. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6801 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6802 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6803
680474. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6805 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6806 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6807 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6808 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6809 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6810 instead of killing the process with assert().
6811
681275. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6813 than Unicode encoding.
6814
681576. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6816 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6817 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6818 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6819
682077. Added process_log_path.
6821
682278. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6823 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6824
682579. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6826 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6827
682880. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6829 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6830 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6831
683281. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6833 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6834 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6835 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6836 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6837 were applied:
6838
6839 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6840 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6841 as invalid.
6842
684382. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6844 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6845 they will be used during message reception.
6846
6847
6848Exim version 4.20
6849-----------------
6850
6851The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6852
6853****