Robert Bannocks' patch for an LDAP problem on Solaris LDAP.
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9TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
10 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
11 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
12 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
13 these files.
14
15TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
16 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
17 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
18
19TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
20 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
21 hence the _LINUX specificness.
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23TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
24 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
25 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
26 in the field name.
27
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28PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
29 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
30 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
31 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
32 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
33 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
34 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
35 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
36 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
37 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
38 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
39
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40PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
41 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
42
43PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
44 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
45 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
46 ignores EPIPE as well.
47
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48PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
49 (quoted-printable decoding).
50
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21a04aa3 52 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
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54PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
55
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56PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
57
58PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
59
38a0a95f 60PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 61 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
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63JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
64 in 4.64-PH/09.
65
66JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
67 miscellaneous code fixes
68
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69PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
70 rejections.
71
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72PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
73 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
74 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
75 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
76 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
77 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
78 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
79 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
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14aa5a05 81PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 82 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
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83 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
84 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
85 function.
86 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
87 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
88 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
89 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
90 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
91 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
92 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
93 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
94 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
95
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96PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
97 decoding.
98
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99PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
100 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
101 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
102 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
103 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
104 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
105 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
106 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
107
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108PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
109 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
110 list.
111
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112PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
113 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
114 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
115 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
116 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
117 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
118 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
119 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
120 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
121 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
122 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
123 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
124 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
125
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126PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
127 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
128 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
129 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
130 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
131 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
132 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
133
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134PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
135 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
136 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
137 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
138 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
139 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
140 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
141 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
142 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
143 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
144
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145PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
146 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
147 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
148 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
149 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
150
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151PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
152 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
153 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
154 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
155 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
156 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
157 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
158
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159PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
160 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
161 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
162 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
163 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
164 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
165 been verified.
166
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168 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
169 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
170 and authorization.)
171
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172PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
173 if any retry times were supplied.
174
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175PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
176 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
177 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
178
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179PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
180
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181PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
182
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183PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
184 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
185 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
186 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
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187 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
188 before) are ignored.
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190PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
191 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
192
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193PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
194 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
195 committing the later change.]
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197PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
198 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
199 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
200 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
201 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
202 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
203 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
204 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
205 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
206
207 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
208 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
209 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
210 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
211 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
212 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
213 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
214 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
215 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
216
217 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
218 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
219 hammering the server.
220
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221PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
222 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
223
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224PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
225
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226PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
227 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
228 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
229
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230PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
231 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
232 one case where this was not true.
233
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234PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
235 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
236 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
237 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
238 fails.
239
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240PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
241 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
242 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
243 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
244 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
245 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
246 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
247 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
248 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
249 smtp transport.
250
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251PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
252 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
253 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
254 same for both kinds of LMTP.
255
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256PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
257 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
258
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259PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
260 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
261 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
262
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263PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
264
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265PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
266
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267PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
268
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269PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
270 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
271 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
272 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
273
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274PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
275 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
276
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277PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
278 be meaningful with "accept".
279
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280SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
281 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
282
283SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
284 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
285 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
286
287SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
288 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
289 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
290 there is data to show.
291 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
292
293SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
294 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
295 as well as the number of messages.
296
297SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
298 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
299 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
300
301SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
302 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
303 have a flag are now skipped.
304
305SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
306 Added the -emptyok flag.
307
308SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
309 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
310
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311JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
312 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
313 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
314
315JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
316 match 4.64-PH/13
317
318JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
319 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
320
321JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
322
323JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
324 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
325
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326PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
327
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328PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
329 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
330 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
331 contravention of the specifications.
332
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333PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
334 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
335 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
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337PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
338 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
339 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
340
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341PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
342
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343MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
344 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
345 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
346 some point in the past.
347
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348PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
349 transport during callout processing was broken.
350
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351PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
352 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
353
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354PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
355 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
356
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357PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
358 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
359
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363
364SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
365 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
366
367SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
368 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
369 there is data to show.
370 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
371
372SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
373 as the number of messages in eximstats.
374
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375TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
376 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 377
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378TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
379 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 380
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381TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
382 submissions from trusted users.
383
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384TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
385 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
386
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387TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
388 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
389 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
390 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
391 there is now a framework to start from.
392
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393PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
394 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
395 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
396
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397PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
398
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399PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
400
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401PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
402
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403PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
404 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
405 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
406
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407PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
408 libradius.
409
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410PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
411 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
412 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
413
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414PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
415 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
416 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
417 its arguments.
418
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419PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
420 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
421 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
422 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
423 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
424
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425PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
426 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
427
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428PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
429
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430PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
431 operations in malware.c.
432
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433PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
434 signatures.
435
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436PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
437 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
438 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
439 all.
440
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441PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
442 statements to "add_header".
443
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444PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
445 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
446
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447PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
448 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
449 latter.
450
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452 so that it is now:
453
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454 ${if or { \
455 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
456 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
457 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
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458 }{no}{yes}}
459
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460 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
461 don't think Precedence: ever was.
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463PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
464 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
465
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466PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
467 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
468 any possible encoding problems.
469
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470PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
471 but not after initializing Perl.
472
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473PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
474 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
475 apparently, which is not desirable.
476
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477PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
478 queries.
479
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480JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
481 --not options
482
483JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
484
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485PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
486 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
487 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
488 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
489
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490PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
491 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
492 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
493
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494PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
495 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
496 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
497 0.12.
498
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499PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
500 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
501 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
502 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
503 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
504
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506Exim version 4.62
507-----------------
508
509TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
510 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
511
1cce3af8
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512PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
513 patch).
514
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515PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
516 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
517 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
518 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
519 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
520 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
521 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
522 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
523 451 error is used.
524
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525PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
526
dd16e114
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527PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
528 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
529 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
530
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531PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
532 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
533 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
534 odd errors.
535
d87df92c
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536PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
537 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
538
7e9f683d
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539PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
540 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
541 option (which defaults to 0600).
542
bfad5236
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543PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
544
01c490df
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545PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
546 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
547 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
548 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
549 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
550 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
551 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
552
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553PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
554
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556Exim version 4.61
557-----------------
558
559PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
560 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
561 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
562 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
563 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
564 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
565 addresses as local.
566
f9daeae0
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567PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
568 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
569
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570PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
571
c8ea1597
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572PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
573 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
574 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
575 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
576 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
577 grumble.
578
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579PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
580 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
581
47ca6d6c
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582PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
583 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
584 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
585 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
586 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
587
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588PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
589 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
590 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
591 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
592
eff37e47
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593PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
594 be the same on different OS.
595
1921d2ea
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596PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
597 testing.
598
b3f69ca8
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599JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
600 whether --show-vars was specified or not
601
602JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
603 in 4.61-PH/06
604
424a1c63
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605PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
606 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
607 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
608 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
609 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
610 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
611 bounce message.
612
7a100415
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613PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
614 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
615 when Exim was called.
616
19b9dc85
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617PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
618 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
619
309bd837
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620PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
621 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
622 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
623 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
624
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625PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
626 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
627 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
628 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
629 changes:
630
631 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
632 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
633 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
634
635 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
636 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
637 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
638
9edc04ce
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639PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
640 feature).
641
1349e1e5
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642PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
643 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
644 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
645 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
646 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
647 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
648 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
649 values from the SRV records were lost.
650
ea49d0e1
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651PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
652 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
653 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
654
064a94c9
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655PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
656 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
657 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
658
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659PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
660 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
661 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
662 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
663 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
664 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
665 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
666 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
667 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 668 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 669
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670PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
671 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
672 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
673
21c28500
PH
674PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
675 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
676
677PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
678 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
679 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
680 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
681 is given.
682
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683PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
684 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
685 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
686
687PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
688 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
689 PH/23 above applies.
690
9675b384
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691PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
692 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
693 (for which there is an explicit test).
694
6a3f1455
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695PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
696
dac79d3e
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697PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
698 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
699 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
700 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
701 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 702
5977a0b3
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703PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
704 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
705 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
706 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
707
c91535f3
PH
708PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
709 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
710 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
711
0d46a8c8
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712PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
713
278c6e6c
PH
714PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
715
2cbb4081
PH
716PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
717 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
718 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
719
3eef829e
PH
720PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
721 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
722 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
723 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
724 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
725
1ab95fa6
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726PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
727 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
728 the message gets confusing).
729
230205fc
PH
730PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
731 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
732 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
733 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
734
75e0e026
PH
735PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
736 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
737 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
738 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
739 same order.
740
741PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
742 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
743 the different processes.
744
145396a6
PH
745PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
746
3cd34f13
PH
747PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
748
11121d3d
JJ
749JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
750 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
751
752JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
753 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
754
755JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
756 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
757 messages matching specified criteria.
758
8def5aaf
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759PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
760
929ba01c
PH
761PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
762 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
763
2632889e
PH
764PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
765 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
766 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
767 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
768 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
769 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
770 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
771 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
772 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
773 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
774
944a9c55
PH
775PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
776 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
777 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
778
4a23603b
PH
779PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
780
4730f942
PH
781PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
782 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
783 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
784 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
785 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
786 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
787 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
788 the variable.
789
30dba1e6
PH
790PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
791 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
792
382afc6b
PH
793PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
794
a86229cf
PH
795PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
796
50c99ba6
PH
797PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
798
d35e429d
PH
799PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
800 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
801 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
802 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
803 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
804 size of the count of files.
805
f90d018c
PH
806PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
807
75def545
PH
808PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
809 used in LMTP mode:
810
811 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
812 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
813 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
814 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
815
816 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
817 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
818 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
819
820PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
821 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
822 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
823 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
824 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
825
c46782ef
PH
826PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
827 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
828
71fafd95
PH
829PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
830 will now be deprecated.
831
2c5db4fd
PH
832PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
833
9cf6b11a
JJ
834JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
835 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
836 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
837
838JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
839 with very large, slow to parse queues
840
841JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
842
843JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
844
898d150f
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845PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
846 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
847 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
848 SMTP output lines.
849
46218253
PH
850PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
851 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
852 Sieve code now uses this.
853
e97957bc
PH
854PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
855 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
856
81e509d7
PH
857PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
858 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
859
3d240ff7
PH
860PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
861
b37c4101
PH
862PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
863 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
864 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
865 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
866 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
867
79378e0f
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868PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
869 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
870 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
871 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
872
e49c7bb4
PH
873PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
874
d114ec46
PH
875PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
876
f3d7df6c
PH
877PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
878 is preferred over IPv4.
879
715ab376
PH
880PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
881 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
882 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
883 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
884 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
885 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
886 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
887
6b31b150
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888PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
889 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
890 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
891
892PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
893
d515a917
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894PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
895 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
896 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
897 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
898 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
899 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
900 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
901 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
902 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
903 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
904 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
905
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906PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
907 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
908 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
909
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913
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914PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
915
916 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
917 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
918
919 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
920 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
921 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 922
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923PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
924
925 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
926 not a single digit.
927
928 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
929 string.
930
931 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
932 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
933 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
934 silly things.
935
936 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
937 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
938
939 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
940 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 941
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942PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
943 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
944 "/bin:/usr/bin".
945
f174f16e
PH
946PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
947 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 948
c25242d7
PH
949PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
950 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
951
952 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
953
954 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
955 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
956 this:
957
958 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
959
82c19f95
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960PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
961 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
962 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
963 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
964 identical. For example:
965
966 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
967
968 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
969 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
970 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
971
d7ffbc12
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972PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
973 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
974 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
975 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
976
9f526266
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977PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
978 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
979 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
980 message.
981
87fcc8b9
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982PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
983
984 o fixes some comments
985 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
986 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
987 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
988 and documents the missing references header update
989
990 and most important:
991
992 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
993 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
994 result)
995
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996PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
997 Electronic Mail") by including:
998
999 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
1000
1001 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
1002 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
1003 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
1004 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
1005 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
1006
1007 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
1008
1009 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
1010
1011 The auto-replied keyword:
1012
1013 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
1014 message by an automatic process,
1015
1016 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
1017
1018 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
1019 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
1020
1021 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
1022 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
1023 other messages.
1024
3e46c1aa
PH
1025PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
1026 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 1027
49826d12
PH
1028PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
1029
eba0c039
PH
1030PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
1031 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
1032 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
1033
a0d6ba8a
PH
1034PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
1035 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
1036 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
1037
f0917727
PH
1038PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
1039 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
1040 and treats the condition as false.
1041
096fee00
PH
1042PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
1043
024bd3c2
PH
1044PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
1045 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
1046 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
1047 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
1048 not changing the active code.
1049
1050 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
1051 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
1052
1053 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
1054 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
1055
df199fec
PH
1056PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
1057 (Bugzilla #53).
1058
d27f1df3
PH
1059PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
1060 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
1061 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
1062 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
1063 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
1064 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
1065 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
1066 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
1067 the text comparison.
1068
96776534
PH
1069PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
1070 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
1071 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
1072 The same fix has been applied.
1073
5de37277 1074
9a799bc0
PH
1075Exim version 4.54
1076-----------------
1077
1078PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
1079 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
1080 It now does.
1081
99a4b039
PH
1082PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
1083 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
1084
1085PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
1086
4b233853
PH
1087PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
1088 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
1089 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
1090 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
1091 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
1092
8857ccfd
PH
1093TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
1094 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
1095 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
1096 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
1097 or /domain=).
1098
433a2980
PH
1099PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
1100 testing suite.
1101
3e46c1aa 1102
9a799bc0 1103
e3a311ba
TK
1104Exim version 4.53
1105-----------------
1106
1107TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
1108 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
1109
13b685f9
PH
1110PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
1111
395ff96d
PH
1112PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
1113
5b68f6e4
PH
1114PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
1115 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
1116 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
1117
1ab52c69
PH
1118PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
1119 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
1120 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
1121
b07e6aa3
PH
1122PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
1123 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
1124 operating systems.
1125
254e032f
PH
1126PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
1127 ${stat: expansion item.
1128
3af76a81
PH
1129PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
1130 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
1131
2548ba04
PH
1132PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
1133 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
1134 file for comments.
1135
b6c6011d
PH
1136PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
1137
cf39cf57
PH
1138PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
1139 setting.
1140
f1513293
PH
1141PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
1142 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
1143
727549a4
PH
1144TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
1145
af46795e
PH
1146PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
1147 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
1148 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
1149 the end of the subprocess.
1150
d7b47fd0
PH
1151PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
1152 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
1153 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
1154 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
1155 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
1156
ee744174
JJ
1157JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
1158
b582ab87
PH
1159TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
1160
41a13e0a
PH
1161PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
1162 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
1163
f625cc5a
PH
1164PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
1165
1166PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
1167
21f7af35
PH
1168PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
1169 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
1170 HP-UX compiler.
1171
31480e42
PH
1172PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
1173
2d280592
PH
1174PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
1175 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
1176 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
1177
7cd1141b
PH
1178PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
1179 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
1180
1181PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
1182 host errors such as "Connection refused".
1183
750af86e
PH
1184PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
1185 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
1186
1187 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
1188 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
1189
1190 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
1191 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
1192 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
1193 contributed by a Radius user.
1194
1195PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
1196 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
1197
4304270b
TK
1198TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
1199 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
1200
750af86e
PH
1201PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
1202 available.
1203
64ffc24f
PH
1204PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
1205 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
1206 received.
1207
5dd9625b
PH
1208PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
1209 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
1210 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
1211 header lines when this was not necessary.
1212
5591031b
PH
1213PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
1214
ba18e66a
PH
1215PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
1216 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
1217 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
1218 exists".
1219
9cec981f
PH
1220PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
1221 -bV or -d is used.
1222
aa2b5c79
PH
1223PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
1224 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
1225 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
1226 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 1227
48a53b7f
PH
1228PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
1229
1c59d63b
PH
1230PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
1231
671012da
TK
1232TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
1233
1509d3a8
PH
1234PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
1235
1236PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
1237 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
1238 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
1239 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
1240 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
1241 settings.
1242
1243PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
1244
2fe1a124
PH
1245PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
1246 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
1247 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
1248 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
1249 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
1250 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
1251 which is clearly wrong.
1252
8800895a
PH
1253PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
1254
ccfdb010
PH
1255PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
1256 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
1257 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
1258 subsequently added.
1259
1130bfb0
PH
1260PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
1261 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
1262
ebcb507f
PH
1263PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
1264
c35e155c
PH
1265PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
1266 the "build-* directories that it finds.
1267
95d1f782
PH
1268PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
1269 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
1270
fd6de02e
PH
1271PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
1272 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
1273
58de37c5
PH
1274PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
1275 recipients, not senders.
1276
261cf466
TF
1277TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
1278 the ratelimit ACL was added.
1279
3ee512ff
PH
1280PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
1281
e08c430f
PH
1282PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
1283
bef5a11f
PH
1284PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
1285 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
1286 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
1287 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
1288
7546de58
TF
1289TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
1290
e5d5a95f
TF
1291TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
1292 clock is set back in time.
1293
2e88a017
TF
1294TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
1295 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
1296
a5f65aa4
TF
1297TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
1298 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
1299
e7726cbf
PH
1300PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
1301 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
1302 (see PH/47 above).
1303
a7fdad5b
TF
1304TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
1305 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
1306 header rewrites.
1307
6af56900
PH
1308PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
1309 type ("H").
1310
0925ede6
PH
1311PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
1312
66afa403
TF
1313TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
1314 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
1315 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
1316
0154e85a
TF
1317TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
1318 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
1319 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
1320 helo verification defer as a failure.
1321
16f12c76
PH
1322PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
1323 actual error message.
1324
bbe902f0 1325
e5a9dba6
PH
1326Exim version 4.52
1327-----------------
1328
1329TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
1330
22c3b60b
PH
1331PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
1332 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
1333 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
1334 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
1335
06a9b4b5
PH
1336TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
1337
c1ac6996
PH
1338PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
1339 can still be requested.
1340
9c7a242c
PH
1341PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
1342 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
1343 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
1344 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
1345
87ba3f5f
PH
1346TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
1347 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
1348 circumstances, but probably never did.
1349
1350PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
1351 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
1352 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
1353 in the header line.
1354
29aba418
TF
1355TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
1356
fe0dab11
TF
1357TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
1358 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 1359
11d337a4
TK
1360TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
1361
1362TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
1363
415c8f3b
PH
1364PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
1365 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
1366 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
1367 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
1368 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
1369 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 1370
958541e9
PH
1371PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
1372 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
1373 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
1374 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
1375 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
1376 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
1377
c206415f
TK
1378TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
1379 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
1380
2a4be8f9
PH
1381PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
1382 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
1383
1cba11c5
SC
1384SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
1385 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
1386
1387SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
1388
1389SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
1390
1391SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
1392
1393SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
1394
1395SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
1396
1397SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
1398
1005d00e
TK
1399TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
1400
1401TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
1402 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
1403 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
1404
1405TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
1406 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
1407 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
1408 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
1409
9b4768fa
PH
1410PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
1411 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
1412 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
1413
1414PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
1415 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
1416 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
1417 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
1418
0d7eb84a
PH
1419PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
1420 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
1421 to be made).
1422
1423PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
1424 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
1425 should work with maildirs and everything.
1426
40727bee
TK
1427TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
1428 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
1429
554d2369
TF
1430TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
1431 <jgh@wizmail.org>
1432
1f922db1
PH
1433PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
1434 function for BDB 4.3.
1435
ef213c3b
PH
1436PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
1437
8ac170f3
PH
1438PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
1439 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
1440 involved.
1441
b1c749bb
PH
1442PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
1443 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
1444 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
1445 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
1446 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
1447 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 1448
4aac9b49
PH
1449PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
1450 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
1451 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
1452 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
1453 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
1454 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
1455 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
1456 falls back to the previous guessing code."
1457
294520c8
TK
1458TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
1459 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
1460 details.
1461
5bd022fe
PH
1462PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
1463 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
1464
90e9ce59
PH
1465PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
1466 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
1467 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
1468 test. It is now used for both.
1469
5ea81592
PH
1470PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
1471 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
1472 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
1473 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
1474 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
1475 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
1476
c6c2dc1d
PH
1477PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
1478 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
1479 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
1480 string_vformat().
1481
fffffe4c
PH
1482PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
1483 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
1484 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 1485
9a26b6b2
PH
1486PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
1487 experimental DomainKeys support:
1488
1489 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
1490 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
1491 the control was given.
1492
1493 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
1494
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1495PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
1496
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1497PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
1498
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1499PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
1500 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
1501 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
1502 db.h files).
1503
ff790e47 1504PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
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1505 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
1506 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
1507 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
1508 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
1509 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
1510 course.
ff790e47 1511
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1512PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
1513 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
1514 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
1515 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
1516 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
1517 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
1518
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1519PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
1520 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
1521 do -d+all out of habit.
1522
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1523PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
1524 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
1525 x86_64 Fedora Core.
1526
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1527PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
1528 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
1529 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
1530 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
1531 record types that Exim uses.
1532
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1533PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
1534 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
1535 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
1536 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
1537 non-existent file that was broken.
1538
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1539TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
1540 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
1541
1542TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
1543 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
1544 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
1545
1546TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
1547
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1548PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
1549 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
1550 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
1551 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
1552 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
1553 same time.
1554
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1555SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
1556 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
1557 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
1558 at a slight CPU cost.
1559
1560SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
1561 as requested by Marc Sherman.
1562
1563SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
1564 by Marc Sherman.
1565
0793e4ed
SC
1566SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
1567
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1568PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
1569 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
1570
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1572Exim version 4.51
1573-----------------
1574
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1575TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
1576 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
1577
2f079f46 1578TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
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1579
1580TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
1581
1582PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
1583 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
1584
1585PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
1586 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
1587 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
1588 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
1589 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
1590 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
1591 file.
1592
1593PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
1594 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
1595 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
1596 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
1597 these two options.
1598
1599PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
1600 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
1601 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
1602 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
1603 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
1604 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
1605 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 1606 address.
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1607
1608PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
1609 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
1610
1611PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
1612 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
1613 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
1614 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
1615 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
1616 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
1617
1618PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
1619 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
1620 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
1621 SMTP commands that take arguments.
1622
1623PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
1624 Finch).
1625
1626PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
1627 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 1628
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1629PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
1630 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
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1631 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
1632 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
1633 message.
49c2d5ea 1634
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PH
1635PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
1636
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1637PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
1638 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
1639
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1640PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
1641 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
1642 to what was transported.)
1643
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1644TF/01 Added $received_time.
1645
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1646PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
1647 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
1648 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
1649 spamd_address settings.
1650
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1651PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
1652 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
1653 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
1654 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
1655 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
1656
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1657PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
1658
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1659PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
1660 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
1661 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
1662 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
1663 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
1664
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PH
1665PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
1666 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
1667
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1668PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
1669 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
1670 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
1671 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
1672 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
1673 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
1674 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
1675 for failure.
1676
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1677PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
1678 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
1679 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
1680 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
1681 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
1682 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
1683 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
1684 "input=".
1685
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1686PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
1687
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1688PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
1689 driver and ACL definitions.
1690
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1691PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
1692 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
1693
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PH
1694PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
1695 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
1696 understands it better than I do:
1697
1698 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
1699 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
1700
1701 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
1702 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
1703 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
1704 => three warnings about OTP not working
1705 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
1706
1707 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
1708 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
1709 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
1710 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
1711 for each call.)
1712 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
1713 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
1714
1715 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
1716 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
1717 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
1718
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1719PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
1720 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
1721 specified.
1722
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1723PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
1724 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
1725 "Linux".
1726
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1727PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
1728 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
1729 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
1730
1731 warn !verify = sender
1732 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
1733
1734 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
1735 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
1736
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1737PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
1738
1739 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
1740 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
1741
1742 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
1743 nomenclature these days.)
1744
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1745PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
1746 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
1747
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1748PH/30 In these circumstances:
1749 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
1750 . First host does not offer TLS;
1751 . First host accepts first address;
1752 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
1753 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
1754 . Second host accepts second address.
1755 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
1756 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
1757 address.
7e8bec7a 1758
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1759PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
1760 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
1761 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
1762 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
1763 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
1764
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1765PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
1766 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
1767
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1768PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
1769 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 1770
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1771PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
1772 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
1773 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
1774
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1775PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
1776 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
1777 overlooked.
1778
1779PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
1780
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1781PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
1782 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
1783 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
1784 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
1785 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
1786 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
1787 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
1788
1789 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
1790 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
1791 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
1792 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
1793 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
1794
1795 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
1796 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
1797 routed further.
1798
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1799PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
1800 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
1801 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
1802 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
1803 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
1804 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
1805
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1806PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
1807
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1808PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
1809 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
1810 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
1811 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
1812 printable escape sequences.
1813
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1814PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
1815 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
1816 body only.
1817
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1818PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
1819 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
1820 are as follows:
1821
1822 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
1823 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
1824 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
1825 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
1826 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
1827
1828 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
1829 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
1830 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
1831
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1832PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
1833
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1834PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
1835 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
1836 play with."
1837
2e2a30b4
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1838PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
1839 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
1840 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
1841 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
1842 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
1843 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
1844 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
1845 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
1846 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
1847 the log output.
1848
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1849PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
1850 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
1851 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
1852 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
1853 "make".
1854
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1856A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
1857----------------------------------------
1858
1859Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
1860changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
1861needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
1862in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
1863that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
1864release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
1865from 4.43.
1866
1867I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
18684.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
1869those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
1870historical information.
1871
1872
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1874-----------------
1875
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1876 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
1877
139059f6 1878 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 1879 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 1880
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1881 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
1882 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
1883 place.
1884
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1885 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
1886 filter fails to execute.
1887
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1888 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
1889 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
1890 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
1891 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
1892 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
1893
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1894 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
1895
1896 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
1897 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
1898 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
1899 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 1900
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1901 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
1902 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
1903 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
1904 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
1905 control that does not make sense is encountered.
1906
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1907 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
1908
5be20824
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190910. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
1910
eb2c0248
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191111. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
1912 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
1913 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
1914 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
1915
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191612. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
1917 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
1918 sender verification.
1919
192013. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
1921 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
1922
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192314. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
1924
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192515. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
1926 connection timeout.
1927
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192816. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
1929 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
1930
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193117. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
1932 the spool by the -Mrm option.
1933
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193418. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
1935 information about exactly what failed.
1936
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193719. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
1938
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193920. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
1940 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
1941 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
1942
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194321. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
1944 It is now set to "smtps".
1945
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194622. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
1947 ignore_target_hosts.
1948
194923. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
1950 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
1951 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
1952 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
1953 "[x.x.x.x]".
1954
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195524. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
1956 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
1957 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
1958
195925. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
1960 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
1961 wake it up if nothing else does.
1962
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196326. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
1964 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
1965 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
1966 end up negative.
1967
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196827. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
1969 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
1970
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197128. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
1972
90af77f4
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197329. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
1974 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
1975 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
1976 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
1977 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
1978 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
1979 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
1980 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
1981
d8ef3577
PH
198230. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
1983 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
1984 than one IP address.
1985
5cb8cbc6
PH
198631. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
1987 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
1988 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
1989 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
1990
14702f5b
PH
199132. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
1992 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
1993 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
1994 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
1995 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
1996 1024 to 2048 bytes.
1997
063b1e99
PH
199833. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
1999 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
2000 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
2001 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
2002
652e1b65
PH
200334. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
2004 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
2005 respected.
2006
6f0c9a4f
PH
200735. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
2008 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
2009 $sender_host_address.
2010
33397d19
PH
201136. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
2012 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
2013 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
2014 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
2015 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
2016 very small.
2017
7bb56e1f
PH
201837. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
2019
2020 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
2021 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
2022
ea3bc19b
PH
2023 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
2024 just the host names, not the priorities.
2025
2026 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
2027 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
2028 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 2029
ea3bc19b 2030 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 2031 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 2032
0bcb2a0e
PH
203338. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
2034 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
2035 domain.
2036
2ac0e484
PH
203739. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
2038
4e1fde53
PH
203940. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
2040 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
2041
de365ded
PH
204241. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
2043 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
2044 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
2045
f05da2e8
PH
204642. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
2047
d6453af2
PH
204843. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
2049
f7b63901
PH
205044. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
2051
205245. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
2053 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
2054 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
2055 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
2056 because the tests only now provoked it.
2057
a444213a
PH
205846. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
2059 (this can affect the format of dates).
2060
0ec020ea
PH
206147. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
2062 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
2063 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
2064 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
2065
b1206957
PH
206648. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
2067
206849. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
2069 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
2070 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
2071 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
2072
26dd5a95
PH
207350. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
2074 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
2075 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
2076
343b2385
PH
207751. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
2078 autoreply.
2079
1c5466b9
PH
208052. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
2081 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
2082 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
2083 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
2084 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
2085 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
2086 is going on).
2087
55ee9ee3
PH
208853. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
2089 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
2090 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
2091 the line.
2092
d38f8232
PH
209354. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
2094 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
2095 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
2096
2097 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
2098 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
2099 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
2100 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
2101 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
2102 so I produce this patch..."
2103
3295e65b
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2104 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
2105 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
2106 is not defined.
2107
7102e136
PH
210855. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
2109 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
2110 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
2111 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 2112 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 2113
3ca0ba97
PH
211456. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
2115
c2bcbe20
PH
211657. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
2117 long debug lines gets shown.
2118
18ce445d
PH
211958. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
2120 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
2121
1f5b4c3d
PH
212259. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
2123
2124 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
2125 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
2126 of $primary_hostname.
2127
b975ba52
PH
212860. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
2129 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
2130 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
2131 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
2132 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
2133 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
2134 by change 4.50/55 above.
2135
2136 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
2137 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
2138 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
2139 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
2140 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
2141 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 2142 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
2143
214461. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
2145 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
2146 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 2147 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 2148
17ffcae7
PH
214962. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
2150 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
2151
d95f9fdb
PH
215263. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
2153 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
2154 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
2155 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
2156 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
2157
86b8287f
PH
215864. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
2159 This has been fixed.
2160
60dc5e56
PH
216165. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
2162 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
2163 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
2164 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
2165 the caching.)
2166
533244af
PH
216766. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
2168
a5a28604
PH
216967. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
2170 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
2171 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
2172 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
2173
7e634d24
PH
217468. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
2175 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
2176
3e11c26b
PH
217769. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
2178 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
2179 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
2180
6729cf78
PH
218170. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
2182 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
2183 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
2184 message there.
2185
00f00ca5
PH
218671. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
2187 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
2188 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
2189
c9bdd01c
PH
219072. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
2191 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
2192 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
2193 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
2194
d43194df
PH
219573. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
2196 during host lookups.
2197
fe5b5d0b
PH
219874. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
2199 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
2200
2201 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
2202
76a2d7ba
PH
220375. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
2204 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
2205 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
2206 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
2207 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
2208 background.
2209
221076. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
2211 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
2212
04f7d5b9
PH
221377. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
2214 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
2215 for the non-SMTP ACL.
2216
bc60667e
PH
221778. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
2218
bb6e88ff
PH
221979. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
2220 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
2221 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
2222 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
2223 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
2224 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
2225 process earlier.
2226
1e70f85b
PH
222780. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
2228 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
2229 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
2230 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
2231 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
2232
223381. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
2234 tables).
2235
4e01f9d6
PH
223682. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
2237
1ee1cef2
PH
223883. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
2239 "vacation" handling.
2240
6e2b4ccc
PH
224184. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
2242 OS variants using glibc.
2243
8e669ac1
PH
224485. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
2245
495ae4b0 2246
bbe902f0
PH
2247----------------------------------------------------
2248See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
2249----------------------------------------------------
2250
2251
2252Exim version 4.44
2253-----------------
2254
2255 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
2256 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
2257 transport
2258
2259 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
2260 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
2261 place.
2262
2263 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
2264 filter fails to execute.
2265
2266 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
2267 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
2268 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
2269 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
2270 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
2271
2272 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
2273 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
2274 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
2275 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
2276
2277 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
2278 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
2279 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
2280 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
2281 control that does not make sense is encountered.
2282
2283 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
2284
2285 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
2286 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
2287 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
2288 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
2289
2290 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
2291 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
2292 sender verification.
2293
229410. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
2295 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
2296
229711. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
2298 the spool by the -Mrm option.
2299
230012. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
2301 ignore_target_hosts.
2302
230313. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
2304 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
2305 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
2306 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
2307 "[x.x.x.x]".
2308
230914. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
2310 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
2311 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
2312
231315. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
2314 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
2315 wake it up if nothing else does.
2316
231716. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
2318 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
2319 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
2320 end up negative.
2321
232217. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
2323 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
2324
ea3a6f44 232518. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
2326
232719. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
2328 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
2329 empty pattern.
2330
233120. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
2332 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
2333 one IP address.
2334
ea3a6f44
NM
233521. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
2336 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
2337 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
2338 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
2339 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
2340 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 2341
ea3a6f44
NM
234222. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
2343 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
2344 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
2345
234623. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
2347 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
2348 $sender_host_address.
2349
235024. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
2351
ea3a6f44
NM
235225. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
2353 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
2354 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
2355
235626. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 2357 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 2358
ea3a6f44
NM
235927. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
2360 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 2361
ea3a6f44
NM
236228. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
2363 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
2364 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
2365 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
2366
236729. eximstats updated to version 1.35
2368 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
2369 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
2370
ea3a6f44
NM
237130. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
2372 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
2373 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
2374 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 2375
ea3a6f44
NM
237631. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
2377 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
2378 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 2379
ea3a6f44
NM
238031. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
2381 autoreply.
bbe902f0 2382
ea3a6f44
NM
238332. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
2384 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
2385 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
2386 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
2387 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
2388 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
2389 is going on).
bbe902f0 2390
ea3a6f44
NM
239133. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
2392 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
2393 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
2394 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
2395 CAN-2005-0021
2396
ea3a6f44
NM
239734. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
2398 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
2399 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
2400 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
2401 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
2402 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
2403 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
2404
2405 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
2406 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
2407 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
2408 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
2409 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
2410 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
2411 CAN-2005-0021
2412
ea3a6f44
NM
241335. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
2414 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
2415 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
2416 CAN-2005-0022
2417
ea3a6f44
NM
241836. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
2419 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
2420 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
2421 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
2422 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 2423
ea3a6f44
NM
242437. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
2425 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
2426 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
2427 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
2428 the caching.)
bbe902f0 2429
ea3a6f44
NM
243038. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
2431 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
2432 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
2433 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
2434 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
2435
2436
495ae4b0
PH
2437Exim version 4.43
2438-----------------
2439
2440 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
2441 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
2442 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
2443 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
2444 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
2445 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
2446 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
2447
2448 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
2449 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
2450 the delivery.
2451
2452 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
2453
2454 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
2455
2456 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
2457 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
2458 to local_scan().
2459
2460 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
2461 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
2462 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
2463 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
2464 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
2465
2466 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
2467 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
2468
2469 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
2470
2471 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
2472
247310. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
2474 header_sender only.
2475
247611. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
2477 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
2478
247912. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
2480 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
2481 affecting debugging statements).
2482
248313. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
2484
248514. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
2486 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
2487 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
2488 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
2489 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
2490 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
2491 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
2492 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
2493 after the received time, and all would be well.
2494
249515. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
2496 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
2497 condition in an expansion string.
2498
249916. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
2500
250117. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
2502 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
2503 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
2504 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
2505 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
2506 job under whatever limits there are.
2507
250818. Imported PCRE 5.0.
2509
251019. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
2511 space).
2512
251320. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
2514 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
2515 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
2516 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
2517 return path is set.
2518
251921. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
2520 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
2521 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
2522 binary data in such strings.
2523
252422. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
2525
252623. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
2527 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
2528 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
2529 failure, which is pointless.
2530
253124. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
2532
253325. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
2534
253526. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
2536 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
2537 Sender: header lines.
2538
253927. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
2540 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
2541 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
2542
254328. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
2544 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
2545 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
2546 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
2547 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
2548 happens.
2549
255029. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
2551 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
2552 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
2553 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
2554 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
2555
255630. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
2557 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
2558 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
2559 1024.
2560
256131. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
2562 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
2563
256432. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
2565 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
2566
256733. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
2568
256932. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
2570
257133. Added an ACL for QUIT.
2572
257334. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
2574 syntax error.
2575
257635. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
2577
257836. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
2579
258037. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
2581 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
2582 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
2583 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
2584
258538. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
2586 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
2587
2588
2589Exim version 4.42
2590-----------------
2591
2592 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
2593 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
2594 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
2595 it was not quoted.
2596 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
2597 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
2598 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
2599 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
2600 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
2601 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
2602
2603 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
2604 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
2605 verification failure".
2606
2607 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
2608 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
2609 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
2610 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
2611
2612 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
2613 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
2614 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
2615 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
2616 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
2617 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
2618 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
2619 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
2620 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
2621 treated as a timeout.
2622
2623 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
2624 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
2625 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
2626 not set for Exim filters).
2627
2628 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
2629 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
2630 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
2631
2632 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
2633
2634 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
2635 try to make them clearer.
2636
2637 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
2638 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
2639
2640 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
2641
2642 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
2643
264410. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
2645 only the Cygwin environment.
2646
264711. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
2648 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
2649 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
2650 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
2651 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
2652
265312. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
2654 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
2655 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
2656 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
2657 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
2658 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
2659 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
2660
266113. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
2662 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
2663
266414. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
2665
2666 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
2667 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
2668 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
2669
2670 To: susanne@some.where
2671
2672 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
2673 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
2674 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
2675 of addresses in From: header lines).
2676
2677 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
2678 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
2679 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
2680
2681 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
2682 treated as non-personal.
2683
2684 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
2685 because it now seems ill-conceived.
2686
268715. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
2688
268916. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
2690
269117. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
2692 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
2693 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
2694
269518. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
2696 ACL and the local_scan() function.
2697
269819. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
2699 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
2700 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
2701 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
2702 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
2703 (I found it when inspecting the code).
2704
270520. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
2706 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
2707 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
2708 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
2709 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
2710 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
2711 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
2712 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
2713
2714 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
2715
271621. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
2717 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
2718
271922. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
2720 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
2721 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
2722
272323. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
2724 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
2725
272624. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
2727 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
2728 rather than long int.
2729
273025. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2731
273226. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
2733
2734
2735Exim version 4.41
2736-----------------
2737
2738 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
2739 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
2740 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
2741 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
2742 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
2743 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
2744
2745
2746Exim version 4.40
2747-----------------
2748
2749 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
2750 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
2751
2752 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
2753 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
2754 socklen_t is defined.
2755
2756 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
2757 always exist.
2758
2759 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
2760 configured.
2761
2762 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
2763 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
2764 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
2765 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
2766 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
2767
2768 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
2769 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
2770 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
2771 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
2772
2773 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
2774 of flapping under certain conditions.
2775
2776 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
2777 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
2778 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
2779
2780 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
2781
278210. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
2783
278411. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
2785 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
2786 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
2787 the duration of the SMTP connection.
2788
278912. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
2790 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
2791 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
2792 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
2793 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
2794 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
2795 preserved with the message after it was received.
2796
279713. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
2798 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
2799 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
2800 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
2801 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
2802 test suite worked just fine.
2803
280414. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
2805 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
2806 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
2807
280815. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
2809 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
2810 string.
2811
281216. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
2813 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
2814 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
2815 does not fully solve it.
2816
281717. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
2818 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
2819 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
2820 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
2821 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
2822
282318. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
2824 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
2825 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
2826
282719. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
2828 string, for example:
2829
2830 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
2831
2832 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
2833 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
2834 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
2835 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
2836 the routers could not see them.
2837
283820. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
2839 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
2840
284121. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
2842 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
2843 output).
2844
284522. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
2846 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
2847 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
2848 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
2849 that needed quoting.
2850
285123. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
2852 was not being matched caselessly.
2853
285424. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
2855 backslashes.
2856
285725. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
2858 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
2859 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
2860 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
2861 when use_sender is false.
2862
286326. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
2864
286527. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
2866
286728. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
2868
286929. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
2870 the configuration file.
2871
287230. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
2873 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
2874
287531. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
2876
287732. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
2878 bytes in the message body.
2879
288033. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
2881 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
2882 delivery.
2883
288434. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
2885
288635. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
2887
288836. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
2889 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
2890 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
2891 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
2892 another IP address.
2893
2894
2895Exim version 4.34
2896-----------------
2897
2898 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
2899 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
2900
2901 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
2902 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
2903 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
2904 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
2905 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
2906
2907 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
2908 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
2909
2910 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
2911 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
2912 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
2913
2914 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
2915 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
2916 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
2917
2918 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
2919 for routers.
2920
2921 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
2922 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
2923 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
2924 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
2925 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
2926 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
2927 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
2928
2929
2930Exim version 4.33
2931-----------------
2932
2933 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
2934 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
2935 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
2936 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
2937 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
2938 default (and expected) setting.
2939
2940 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
2941 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
2942 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
2943 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
2944
2945 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
2946 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
2947
2948 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
2949 in domain lists.
2950
2951 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
2952 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
2953 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
2954 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
2955 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
2956 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
2957
2958 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
2959 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
2960 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
2961
2962 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
2963 part (NOT match_host).
2964
2965 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
2966
2967 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
2968 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
2969 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
2970 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
2971 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
2972 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
2973 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
2974 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
2975 the same named file.
2976
297710. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
2978 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
2979 when Exim is built.
2980
298111. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
2982 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
2983 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
2984 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
2985 a host name.
2986
298712. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
2988 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
2989 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
2990
299113. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
2992
299314. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
2994
299515. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
2996
299716. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
2998 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
2999
300017. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
3001 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
3002 before starting the TLS session.
3003
300418. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
3005
300619. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
3007 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
3008
300920. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
3010 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
3011 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
3012 colon in the middle).
3013
3014
3015Exim version 4.32
3016-----------------
3017
3018 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
3019 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
3020 multiple configurations are in use.
3021
3022 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
3023 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
3024 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
3025 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
3026 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
3027 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
3028
3029 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
3030 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
3031
3032 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
3033 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
3034 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
3035
3036 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
3037 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
3038 occurs.
3039
3040 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
3041 that used bh_ and bheader_.
3042
3043 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
3044
3045 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
3046 allowing one more file than it should have been.
3047
3048 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
3049
3050 -prval:sval
3051
3052 is equivalent to
3053
3054 -oMr rval -oMs sval
3055
3056 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
3057 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
3058 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
3059 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
3060 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
3061
306210. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
3063 Exim's behaviour:
3064
3065 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
3066 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
3067 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
3068 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
3069 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
3070 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
3071
3072 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
3073 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
3074 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
3075 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
3076 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
3077 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
3078 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
3079 string.
3080
3081 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
3082 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
3083 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
3084 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
3085 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
3086
308711. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
3088
308912. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
3090 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
3091 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
3092
309313. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
3094
309514. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
3096 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
3097 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
3098 information.
3099
310015. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
3101 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
3102
310316. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
3104 Three changes have been made:
3105
3106 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
3107 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
3108 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
3109 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
3110 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
3111
3112 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
3113 been restored.
3114
3115 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
3116 the modified behaviour.
3117
3118
3119Exim version 4.31
3120-----------------
3121
3122 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
3123 Larry Rosenman.
3124
3125 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
3126 indeed breaks things for older releases.
3127
3128 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
3129 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
3130 try to track down a specific problem.
3131
3132 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
3133 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
3134 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
3135
3136 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
3137 warning.
3138
3139 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
3140 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
3141 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
3142 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
3143 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
3144 some earlier ones do not.
3145
3146 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
3147
3148 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
3149 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
3150 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
3151 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
3152 address literals are enabled, of course).
3153
3154 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
3155
315610. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
3157 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
3158 by a command such as
3159
3160 exim -f "" ...
3161
3162 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
3163
316411. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
3165
316612. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
3167 remained set. It is now erased.
3168
316913. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
3170 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
3171
317214. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
3173 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
3174 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
3175 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
3176 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
3177 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
3178 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
3179 appropriate error code.
3180
318115. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
3182 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
3183 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
3184 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
3185 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
3186 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
3187
318816. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
3189 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
3190 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
3191
319217. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
3193 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
3194 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
3195 terminate the header.
3196
319718. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
3198 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
3199 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
3200
320119. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
3202 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
3203 (4.30/29). In particular:
3204
3205 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
3206 imposed.
3207
3208 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
3209 to write a maildirsize file.
3210
3211 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
3212 the transport, the new value overrides.
3213
3214 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
3215 count.
3216
321720. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
3218 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
3219 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
3220 space or a tab.
3221
322221. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
3223 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
3224 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
3225 the fallback hosts.
3226
322722. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
3228 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
3229 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
3230
323123. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
3232 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
3233 using a union.
3234
323524. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
3236 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
3237 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
3238
323925. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
3240
324126. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
3242
324327. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
3244
324528. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
3246 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
3247 become corrupted.
3248
324929. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
3250 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
3251 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
3252 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
3253 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
3254 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
3255 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
3256 too great.
3257
325830. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
3259 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
3260 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
3261 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
3262 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
3263 incorrectly.
3264
326531. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
3266 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
3267 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
3268 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
3269 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
3270 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
3271 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
3272 cached value only when the same options are set.
3273
327432. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
3275
327633. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
3277 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
3278 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
3279 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
3280 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
3281
328234: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
3283 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
3284 it is clearly obsolete.
3285
328635. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
3287 transport.
3288
328936. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
3290 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
3291 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
3292 times.
3293
329437. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
3295 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
3296 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
3297 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
3298 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
3299
330038. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
3301 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
3302 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
3303 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
3304
330539. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
3306
3307 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
3308
3309 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
3310 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
3311 2^31.
3312
331340. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
3314 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
3315 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
3316 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
3317 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
3318 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
3319 $localpart_data.
3320
332141. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
3322 with the -f command-line option.
3323
332442. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
3325 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
3326 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
3327 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
3328 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
3329 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3330
333143. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
3332 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
3333 line.
3334
333544. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
3336 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
3337 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
3338 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
3339 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
3340 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
3341 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
3342 buffer is too small.
3343
334445. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
3345 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
3346
334746. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
3348 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
3349 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
3350 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
3351 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
3352 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
3353 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
3354 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
3355 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
3356
335747. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
3358 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
3359 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
3360
336148. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
3362 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
3363 ACL").
3364
336549. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
3366 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
3367 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
3368 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
3369 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
3370
337150. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
3372 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
3373 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
3374 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
3375 is set.
3376
337751. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
3378
337952. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
3380
338153. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
3382 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
3383
338454. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
3385 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
3386 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
3387
338855. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
3389 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
3390 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
3391 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
3392 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
3393
339456. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
3395 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
3396 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
3397 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
3398 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
3399 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
3400 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
3401
340257. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
3403 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
3404 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
3405 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
3406 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
3407 the test of how many are available.
3408
340958. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
3410 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
3411 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
3412 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
3413 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
3414 new message is started.
3415
341659. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
3417 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
3418
341960. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
3420 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
3421
342261. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
3423 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
3424 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
3425 is no long logged.
3426
342762. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
3428 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
3429 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
3430 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
3431 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
3432 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
3433 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
3434
343563. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
3436 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
3437 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
3438 interpreted as octal.
3439
344064. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
3441 setting.
3442
344365. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
3444 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
3445 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
3446 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
3447 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
3448 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
3449
345066. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
3451 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
3452 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
3453 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
3454
3455 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
3456 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
3457 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
3458 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
3459
3460 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
3461 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
3462 is a bug fix.
3463
3464 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
3465 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
3466
346767. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3468
346968. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
3470 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
3471 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
3472 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
3473
347469. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
3475 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
3476 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
3477 supplied", which is not helpful.
3478
347970. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
3480 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
3481 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
3482
348371. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
3484 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
3485 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
3486 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
3487 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
3488 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
3489 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
3490 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
3491
349272. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
3493 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
3494 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
3495 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
3496 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
3497
349873. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
3499 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
3500 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
3501 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
3502 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
3503 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
3504
350574. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
3506 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
3507 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
3508
350975. Added write_rejectlog option.
3510
351176. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
3512 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
3513 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
3514 variables.
3515
351677. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
3517
351878. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
3519 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
3520 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
3521 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
3522 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
3523 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
3524 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
3525 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
3526
352779. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
3528 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
3529 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
3530 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
3531 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
3532
353380. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
3534 Haardt.
3535
353681. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
3537 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
3538 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
3539 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
3540 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
3541 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
3542 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
3543 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
3544 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
3545
3546
3547Exim version 4.30
3548-----------------
3549
3550 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
3551 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
3552 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
3553
3554 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
3555 fixed.
3556
3557 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
3558 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
3559 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
3560
3561 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
3562 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
3563 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
3564 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
3565 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
3566 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
3567
3568 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
3569 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
3570 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
3571 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
3572 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
3573 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
3574 the Exim test suite.
3575
3576 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
3577 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
3578 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
3579 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
3580
3581 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
3582 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
3583 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
3584 specify it in this variable.
3585
3586 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
3587 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
3588 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
3589 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
3590
3591 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
3592 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
3593 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
3594 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
3595
3596 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
3597 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
3598 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with