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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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7JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
8 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
9 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
10 client dropping the TLS connection.
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12TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
13 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
14
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15TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
16 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
17 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
18 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
19 outgoing I= field.
20
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21JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
22 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
23 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
24 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
25 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
26 check on the next write.
27
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28HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
29 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
30 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
31 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
32 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
33
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34JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
35 mime_regex ACL conditions.
36
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37JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
38 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
39 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
40
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41JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
42 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
43 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
44 an authenticate fail is not an error.
45
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46HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
47 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
48
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49JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit cacheing of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
50 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
51
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52JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
53 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
54 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
55 distinct.
56
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57JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
58
59JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
60
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61JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
62
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63JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
64 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
65
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67 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
68
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69JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
70
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71JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
72 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
73
74JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
75
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76JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
77 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
78
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79JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
80
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81JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
82 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
83 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testuite sane.
84 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
85 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
86 they will retry in-clear.
87 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
88 at installation time.
89
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90HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
91 with the $config_file variable.
92
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96JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
97 expanded.
98
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99JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
100
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101JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
102 it.
103
01a4a5c5 104JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 105 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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106 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
107 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
108
cb1d7830 109JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 110 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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111 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
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610ff438 113JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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114 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
115 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
116 TLS connections
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118JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
119 sites use this now.
120
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121JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
122 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
123 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
124 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
125 have a dsn_lasthop option.
126
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127JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
128 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 129 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
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131JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
132
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133JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
134 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
135
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136JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
137 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
138
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139JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
140 /defer_ok option.
141
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142JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
143 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
144
fd4d8871 145JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 146 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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147 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
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149JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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150 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
151 specify a port-range.
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153JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
154 timeout value per server.
155
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156JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
157 now have the list separator specified.
158
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159JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
160 option values.
161
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163 under OpenSSL.
164
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165JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
166
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167JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
168 rather than the verbs used.
169
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170JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
171 from 255 to 1024 chars.
172
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173JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
174
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175HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
176 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
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178JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
179 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
180
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181HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
182 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
183
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184JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
185
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186JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
187
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188JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
189 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
190 modern usage is to not canoicalize the domain to a CNAME target
191 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
192
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193JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
194
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195JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
196 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
197
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198JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
199 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
200
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201JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
202
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203JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
204
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205JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
206
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207JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
208 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
209
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210JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
211 added for tls authenticator.
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216TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
217 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
218 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
219 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
220 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
221 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
222 the script parsing/test process like normal.
223
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224TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
225 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
226 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
227 function when detected.
228
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229JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
230 cause callback expansion.
231
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232TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
233 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
234 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
235 instead of bool when processing it.
236
0f06b4f2 237JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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238 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
239
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240JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
241
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242JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
243
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244TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
245
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246TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
247 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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249JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
250 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
251 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
252 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
253 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
254 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
255
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256JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
257 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
258 exceeded it.
259
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260JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
261 version 3.3.6 or later.
262
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263JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
264 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
265 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 266 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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267 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
268 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
269 option is defined.
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271TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
272 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
273
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274JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
275 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
276 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
277 matches.
278
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279JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
280 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
281 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
282
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283JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
284 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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286JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
287 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
288 syntax errors.
289
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292JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
293 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
294
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295TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
296 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
297 tarball.
298
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299JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
300
301JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t anchitectures.
302 Bug 1561.
303
304JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
305 output list separator was used.
306
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308Exim version 4.84
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310TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
311 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
312 return.
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314JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
315 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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317JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
318
319TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 320 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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326TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
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328 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
329 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
330 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
331 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
332 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
333 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
334
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335TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
336 utilities have not been installed.
337
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338JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
339 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
340
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341TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
342 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
343
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344TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
345 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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346 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
347 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
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349JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
350
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351TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
352 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
353
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354PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
355 not dns_use_dnssec.
356
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357JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
358
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359TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
360 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
361 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
362
8ddef691 363TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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364 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
365 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
366 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
367 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 368 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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370JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
371
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372JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
373 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
374
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375JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
376 failed delivery.
377
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378JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
379
511a6c14 380JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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382JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
383 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 384
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385JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
386 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
387
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388TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
389
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390JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
391
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392JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
393 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
394
395 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
396 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
397 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
398
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399TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
400 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
401 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
402 analysis.
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404JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
405
8c51eead 406JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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407 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
408 lookup).
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410TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
411 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
412 Schlichting.
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fd3b6a4a 414JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 415 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
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417TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
418 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
419
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420JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
421
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422TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
423 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
424 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
425
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426JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
427 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
428
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429JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
430 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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431 hosts_request_ocsp.
432
ed3bba5f 433JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 434 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 435 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 436
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437JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
438
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439TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
440 Christian Aistleitner.
441
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442JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
443
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444TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
445 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
446
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447JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
448 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
449
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450JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
451 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
452
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453TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
454 support and error reporting did not work properly.
455
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456TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
457 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
458
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459TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
460 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
461 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
462
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463JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
464
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465PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
466 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
467 Jasper Wallace.
468
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469JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
470
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471TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
472 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
473 CVE-2014-2972
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479PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
480
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481PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
482 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
483
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484PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
485 by GnuTLS.
486
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487PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
488 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
489 routines.
490
13363eba 491PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 492
66645890 493PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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494 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
495 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
496 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
497 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 498
a3fb9793 499PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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500 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
501 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
502 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 503 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 504 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 505
d27f98fe 506TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 507
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508TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
509
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510TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
511 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
512
ae0e32ee 513TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 514 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 515 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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516
517TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 518
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519TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
520
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521TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
522 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
523
976b7e9f
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524JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
525
be4a1376
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526JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
527
ec4b68e5
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528PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
529
d7148a07
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530NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
531 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 532
585121e2 533JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 534
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535PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
536 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
537 function.
a5f239e4 538
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539PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
540 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
541
bef3ea7f
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542JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
543 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
544 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 545
846726c5
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546JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
547
3a796370
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548JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
549
ea722490 550JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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551 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
552
b1b05573
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553JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
554 Bugzilla 884.
555
362145b5
JH
556JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
557 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
558
3c0a92dc
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559JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
560 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
561
6d7c6175
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562PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
563 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 564 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 565
6f123593
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566JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
567 authenticators.
568
c8e2fc1e
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569JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
570 for control.
571
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572PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
573
3f1df0e3
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574PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
575 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
576 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
577 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
578
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579TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
580
581 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
582 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
583 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
584 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
585 the retry rules.
586
587 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
588 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
589 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
590
591 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
592 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
593 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
594 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
595
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596 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
597 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
598 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
599 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
600 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
601 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
602 delivery, as in LMTP.
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603
604 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
605 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
606
326cdc37
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607TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
608
609 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
610
611 Resent-From: f
612
613 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
614 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
615 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
616 username as equal to the username.
617
618 This change corrects that bug.
619
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620GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
621 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
622 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
623
eb505532
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624TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
625
14c7b357
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626PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
627 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
628 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
629 NULL dereference and crash.
630
94eaf700
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631JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
632
6f5a440a
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633PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
634 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
635 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
636
514ee161
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637SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
638
fd98a5c6
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639JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
640 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
641 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
642 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
643 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
644 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
645 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
646 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
647 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
648 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
649 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
650
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651PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
652 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
653
ff284120
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654PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
655 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
656 Bugzilla 880.
657
26e72755
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658PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
659 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
660 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
661 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
662 an empty string is now equivalent.
663
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664PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
665 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
666 not performing validation itself.
667
700d22f3
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668PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
669 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
670
fcc8e047
JH
671JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
672 Bugzilla 321, 823.
673
7142daca
PP
674TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
675
8c020188
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676PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
677 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
678 other false fix of the same issue.
679 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
680 Bugzilla 1363.
681
d13cdd30
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682PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
683 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
684
e2fbf4a2
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685PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
686 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
687 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
688
f4c1088b
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689PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
690 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
691 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
692
c5c2182f
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693TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
694
73431ca9
JH
695JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
696
2d07a215
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697TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
698 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
699
a30a8861
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700TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
701 Alexander Miroch.
702
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703TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
704 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
705 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
706 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
707 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 708
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709TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
710 the src/util/ subdirectory.
711
581d7bee 712TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 713 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
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714 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
715
716TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
717 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
718 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
719 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
720
237b2cf2
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721TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
722
9fc5a352
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723TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
724 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
725 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 726
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727TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
728
e2cebd74
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729TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
730 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
731 interaction.
732
733TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
734 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
735
2519e60d
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736TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
737 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
738
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740Exim version 4.80.1
741-------------------
742
743PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
744 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 745 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 746
ea722490 747
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750
751PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
752 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
753 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
754
23c7e742
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755NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
756
b322aac8
NM
757NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
758 improved.
759
4a891427
NM
760NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
761
c1e794ba 762PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 763
97753960
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764PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
765
766PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
767 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
768
df6303fa
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769PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
770 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
771
7e6a8985
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772PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
773 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
774
f1e05cc7 775PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
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776 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
777 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 778
4c287009
PP
779PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
780
b98bb9ac
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781PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
782 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
783
4a6a987a
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784PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
785
c45dd180 786PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 787
7db8d074
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788PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
789 non-compliant senders.
790 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
791
eae0036b 792NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
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793 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
794 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
795
dec5017e
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796PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
797 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
798 in spool file corruption.
799
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800PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
801 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
802 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
803 "Got SSL error 2".
804
076b11e2
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805TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
806 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
807 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
808
5407bfff
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809JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
810 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
811
9e45c72b
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812JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
813
e74376d8
PP
814PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
815 diagnostics.
816 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
817
da3ad30d
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818PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
819 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
820 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
821
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822PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
823 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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824 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
825 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 826
ef840681
PP
827PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
828 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
829
5bfb4cdf
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830PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
831 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
832 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
833 resolver implementation change.
834
c6e95d22
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835PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
836 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
837
9cbad13b
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838PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
839
9ee44efb
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840PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
841
6a6084f8
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842PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
843 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
844
12dd53c7
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845PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
846 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
847
9e45c72b 848JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
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849 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
850
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851PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
852 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
853 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
854 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 855 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 856
53947857 857PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 858
eae0036b 859PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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860 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
861 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 862
9e45c72b 863JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 864
7390e768
PP
865PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
866 read-only, out of scope).
867 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
868
08488c86
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869PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
870 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
871 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
872 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
873
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874PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
875
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876PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
877 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
878 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
879 real issues in debug logging.
880
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881PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
882 assignment on my part. Fixed.
883
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884PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
885 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
886 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
887
888PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
889 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
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890 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
891 problems.
3375e053 892
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893PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
894 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
895
57eb9e91 896PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
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897 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
898 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
899 needs to override this, it can.
900
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901PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
902 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
903 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
904
a799883d
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905PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
906 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
907 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
908 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
909
3ecab157 910PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 911
0599f9cf 912
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913Exim version 4.77
914-----------------
915
916PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
917 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
918
f1a29782
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919TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
920
ab42bd23
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921TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
922 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 923
0ca0cf52
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924TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
925 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
926
921b12ca
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927TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
928 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
929 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
930
931 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
932 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
933 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
934 not safe for signals.
935
936 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
937 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
938 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
939 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
940 exiwhat.
941
c99ce5c9
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942TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
943
944 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
945 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
946 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
947 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
948 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
949
950 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
951 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
952 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
953 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
954 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
955 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
956
957 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
958 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
959 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
960 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
961
962 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
963 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
964 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
965 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
966
967 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
968 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
969 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
970 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
971 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
972 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
973 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
974 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
975 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
976
977 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
978 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
979 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
980 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
981
982 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
983 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
984 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
985 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
986 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
987 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
988 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
989 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
990 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
991 details in the main documentation.
992
3634fc25
TF
993TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
994
792e8a19
TF
995TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
996
5901f0ab
TF
997TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
998 repository when doing development or release builds.
999
7f2a2a43
PP
1000PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1001 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1002
061b7ebd
PP
1003PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1004 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1005 Bugzilla 97.
1006
e12f8c32
PP
1007PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1008
9e949f00 1009PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1010 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1011
1012PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1013 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1014
555ae6af 1015PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1016 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1017
1018PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1019 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1020
6f7fe114
PP
1021PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1022 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1023
c566dd90
PP
1024PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1025 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1026 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1027 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1028
d6cc7c78 1029PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1030 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1031 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1032
0d0e4455
PP
1033PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1034
3399bb60 1035PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1036
1037PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1038 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1039
0ca0cf52 1040
10906672
PP
1041Exim version 4.76
1042-----------------
1043
1044PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1045
754a0503
PP
1046PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1047 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1048
c0c7b2da
PP
1049PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1050
e97d1f08
PP
1051PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1052
084c1d8c
PP
1053PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1054 Bugzilla 1098.
1055
4e7ee012
PP
1056PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1057 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1058
c8d52a00
PP
1059TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1060 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1061
54e7ce4a
PP
1062PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1063 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1064
5ee6f336
PP
1065PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1066 Bugzilla 1104.
1067
c8d52a00 1068TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1069 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1070
1071TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1072 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1073 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1074 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1075
1076PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1077 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1078
10906672 1079
aa097c4c
NM
1080Exim version 4.75
1081-----------------
1082
4c9ef03a 1083NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1084 Bugzilla 1073
1085
7f3d9eff
TF
1086TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1087 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1088 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1089
159f52d2
TF
1090TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1091 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1092
0cc9542a
PP
1093PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1094 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1095 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1096
f7274286
PP
1097PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1098 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1099
7b797365
PP
1100PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1101 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1102
caacae52
NM
1103NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1104 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1105
09dcaba9
NM
1106NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1107 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1108
bc19a55b
PP
1109PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1110 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1111
bd4c9759
NM
1112NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1113 Fixes bug 943.
1114
b72aab72
PP
1115PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1116 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1117
2fe76745
PP
1118PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1119 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1120
76aa570c
PP
1121PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1122 SQL string expansion failure details.
1123 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1124
f1e5fef5
PP
1125PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1126 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1127
4d805ee9
PP
1128PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1129 extern declarations in function scope.
1130 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1131
cd59ab18
PP
1132PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1133 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1134 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1135 a kernel bug).
1136
332f5cf3
PP
1137PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1138 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1139
29cfeb94
PP
1140PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1141 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1142
660242ad
PP
1143PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1144 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1145
bc4bc4c5
PP
1146PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1147 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1148
2e64baa9
NM
1149NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1150 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1151 Dennis Davis.
1152
bddd7526
PP
1153PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
1154
6bac1a9a
PP
1155PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1156
552193f0
NM
1157NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1158 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1159
1b587e48
TF
1160TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1161 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1162
aa097c4c 1163
8c07b69f
TF
1164Exim version 4.74
1165-----------------
1166
1167TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1168 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1169
c0ea85ab
TF
1170TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1171 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1172
0761d44e
TF
1173TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1174
0a349494
PP
1175DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1176 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1177 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1178
1179PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1180 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1181 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1182
fea24b2e
PP
1183PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1184 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1185 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1186 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1187
6545de78
PP
1188PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1189 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1190 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1191 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1192
1670ef10
PP
1193PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1194 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1195 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1196 arbitrary files.
1197
c0886197
PP
1198PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1199 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1200
b7487bce
PP
1201PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1202 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1203 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1204 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1205 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1206
8c07b69f 1207
97fd1e48 1208Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1209-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1210
1211PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1212 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1213 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1214
6901c596
PP
1215PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1216 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1217
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1218JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1219
77bb000f
PP
1220PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1221
a29e5231
PP
1222PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1223
ec5a0394 1224PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1225
55c75993
PP
1226PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1227
453a6645 1228PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1229 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1230 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1231 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1232
8544e77a
PP
1233PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1234 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1235 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1236 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1237 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1238
83e029d5
PP
1239PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1240
ed7f7860
PP
1241PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1242
7d9f747b
PP
1243PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1244
4b2241d2
PP
1245PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1246
10385c15
PP
1247PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1248
dbc4b90d
PP
1249PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1250
532be449
PP
1251PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1252
6a8de854 1253PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1254 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1255 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1256
5dc43717
JJ
1257JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1258
1259JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1260 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1261
3346ab01
PP
1262PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1263 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1264
491fab4c
PP
1265PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1266 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1267 Notification from John Horne.
1268
13eb9497
PP
1269PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1270 compatible.
1271
1272PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1273 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1274 it normally works.
1275
7f36d675
DW
1276DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1277 access.
1278
c1d94452
DW
1279DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1280 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1281 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1282
e2f5dc15
DW
1283DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1284 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1285 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1286 configuration file.
1287
cd25e41d
DW
1288DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1289 option (effectively making it always true).
1290
261dc43e
DW
1291DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1292 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1293
fa32850b
DW
1294DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1295 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1296
79d4bc3d
PP
1297PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1298 run-time user, instead of root.
1299
43236f35 1300PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1301 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1302
fb08281f
DW
1303DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1304 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1305 arguments.
3346ab01 1306
74935b98
DW
1307DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1308 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1309 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1310
90b6341f
DW
1311DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1312
57730b52
ML
1313NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1314
66581d1e 1315
465e92cf
JJ
1316Exim version 4.72
1317-----------------
1318
453a6645
PP
1319JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1320 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1321 typos
465e92cf 1322
453a6645
PP
1323JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1324 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1325 (Finput)
edae0343 1326
9bd3e22c
NM
1327NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1328 Patch from Alain Williams
1329
bb576ff7
NM
1330NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1331
5a1a5845
NM
1332NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1333 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1334
981a9fad
NM
1335NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1336 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1337
7fc497ee
NM
1338NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1339
1a41defa
JJ
1340JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1341
a466095c 1342NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1343 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1344
94a6bd0b
NM
1345TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1346
1347TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1348
1349MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1350 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1351 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1352
c1b141a8
NM
1353NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1354 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1355
b26eacf1 1356NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1357 Patch by Simon Arlott
1358
179c5980 1359PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1360 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1361
9bd3e22c 1362
7c6d71af
NM
1363Exim version 4.71
1364-----------------
1365
7d9f747b 1366TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1367
f013fb92
NM
1368NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1369
0eb8eedd
NM
1370NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1371
663ee6d9
NM
1372NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1373
177ebd9b
NM
1374NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1375
7c6d71af 1376
210f147e
NM
1377Exim version 4.70
1378-----------------
1379
cdd3bb85 1380TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1381 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1382
1383TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1384 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1385 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1386
1387TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1388 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1389 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1390
1391TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1392 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1393
210f147e
NM
1394NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1395 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1396 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1397 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1398
deafd5b3
NM
1399NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1400 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1401 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1402
089793a4
TF
1403TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1404
5f16ca82
TF
1405TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1406
dae9d94e 1407NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1408 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1409
7d9f747b 1410NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1411
06864c44
TF
1412TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1413 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1414 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1415 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1416
65a7d8c3 1417NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1418 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1419
23510047 1420TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1421
7d9f747b 1422NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1423
7d8eec3a 1424NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1425 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1426
89dec7b6
TF
1427TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1428 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1429
a99de90c
TF
1430TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1431 that they are available at delivery time.
1432
e2803e40
TF
1433TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1434
7199e1ee
TF
1435TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1436 incoming_port log selectors.
1437
e276e04b
TF
1438TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1439 setting expands to an empty string.
1440
ce552449 1441NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1442 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1443
e765a0f1 1444NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1445 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1446
4f054c63 1447NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1448 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1449
7d9f747b
PP
1450NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1451 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1452
7d9f747b
PP
1453NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1454 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1455
b52bc06e 1456NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1457 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1458
447de4b0
NM
1459NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1460
4c69d561 1461NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1462 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1463
d5c39246 1464NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1465 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1466
0b23848a
TK
1467TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1468
8f3414a1 1469NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1470 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1471
fb6f955d
NM
1472NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1473
1474NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1475
7d9f747b
PP
1476NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1477 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1478
7d9f747b
PP
1479NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1480 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1481
7d9f747b
PP
1482NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1483 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1484
7d9f747b
PP
1485NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1486 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1487
7d9f747b
PP
1488NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1489 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1490
7d9f747b
PP
1491NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1492 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1493
7d9f747b
PP
1494NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1495 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1496
7d9f747b 1497NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1498 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1499
7d9f747b 1500NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1501
7d9f747b
PP
1502NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1503 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1504
7d9f747b 1505NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1506
7d9f747b 1507NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1508
7d9f747b 1509NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1510
7d9f747b 1511NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1512
17792b53 1513NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1514 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1515
7d9f747b
PP
1516NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1517 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1518
91576cec 1519NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1520 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1521
7d9f747b
PP
1522NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1523 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1524
7d9f747b 1525NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1526
7d9f747b 1527NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1528
7d9f747b 1529NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1530
7d9f747b 1531NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1532
deafd5b3 1533
47db1125
NM
1534Exim version 4.69
1535-----------------
1536
4b3504d0
TK
1537TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1538 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1539 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1540
1541 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1542 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1543 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1544 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1545 build errors in sieve.c.
1546
81ea09ca
NM
1547NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1548 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1549 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1550
f13cddcb
SC
1551SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1552
7d9f747b 1553NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1554
7d9f747b 1555NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1556
7d9f747b 1557NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1558
1559
eb4c0de6
PH
1560Exim version 4.68
1561-----------------
1562
1563PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1564
6a3bceb1
PH
1565PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1566 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1567 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1568 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1569 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1570 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1571 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1572 for iplsearch lookups.
1573
1574 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1575 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1576 previously such lookups could never work.
1577
1578 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1579 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1580 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1581
2e30fa9d
TK
1582TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1583 version.
1584
0806a9c5
MH
1585MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1586 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1587 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1588 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1589 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1590 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1591
ae276964
TK
1592TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1593 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1594
0f2cbd1b
MH
1595MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1596 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1597 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1598 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1599 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1600 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1601
2b85bce7
PH
1602PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1603 local_scan API.
1604
93655c46
PH
1605PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1606
6c512171
PH
1607PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1608 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1609 encrypted.
1610
1611PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1612 by clients under certain conditions.
1613
aa6dc513
PH
1614PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1615 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1616
a96603a0
PH
1617PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1618
8f240103
PH
1619PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1620 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1621
1622PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1623
d677b2f2
PH
1624PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1625
d52120f2
PH
1626PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1627
64f2600a
PH
1628PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1629 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1630
8669f003
PH
1631PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1632
a4dc33a8
PH
1633PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1634 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1635
d6a60c0f
PH
1636PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1637
8f128379
PH
1638PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1639
8932dffe
PH
1640PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1641 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1642 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1643 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1644
ddea74fa 1645PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1646 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1647 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1648
ddea74fa 1649PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1650 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1651
ddea74fa
PH
1652PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1653
ce9f225c
PH
1654PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1655
19897d52
PH
1656PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1657
bc64a74d
PH
1658PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1659 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1660 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1661
eb4c0de6 1662
b4ed4da0
PH
1663Exim version 4.67
1664-----------------
1665
22ad45c9
MH
1666MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1667 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1668 Jan Srzednicki.
1669
b4ed4da0
PH
1670PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1671 issue a MAIL command.
1672
431b7361
PH
1673PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1674
1675 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1676
1677 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1678 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1679 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1680 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1681 item. This has been fixed.
1682
1683PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1684 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1685
83da1223
PH
1686PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1687 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1688
54fc8428
PH
1689PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1690 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1691 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1692
34c5e8dd
SC
1693SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1694
bbe15da8
PH
1695PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1696 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1697 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1698 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1699 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1700
0e8a9471
MH
1701MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1702 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1703 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1704
f0872424
PH
1705PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1706 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1707 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1708 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1709
b01dd148
PH
1710PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1711
6bf342e1
PH
1712PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1713
273f34d0
PH
1714PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1715 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1716 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1717 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1718 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1719
cf8b11a5
PH
1720PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1721
41c7c167
PH
1722PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1723 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1724 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1725 values).
1726
9c57cbc0
PH
1727PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1728
f3f065bb
PH
1729PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1730
047bdd8c
PH
1731PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1732
0ce9abe6
PH
1733PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1734
0e22dfd1
PH
1735PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1736
4c590bd1
PH
1737PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1738 no_callout_flush is set.
1739
09945f1e
PH
1740PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1741 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1742 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1743 fixed.
1744
c51b8e75
PH
1745PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1746
e28326d8
PH
1747PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1748 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1749 other ACL rejections are.
1750
75b1493f
PH
1751PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1752 with slight modification.
1753
7c5214ec
PH
1754PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1755 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1756
4311097e
PH
1757PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1758 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1759 connection.
1760
29f89cad
PH
1761PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1762 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1763
5e687460
SC
1764SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1765
c3611384
PH
1766PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1767 expansion side effects.
1768
5a11a7b4
PH
1769PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1770 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1771 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1772 be the same.
1773
0e20aff9
MH
1774MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1775 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1776 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1777
ca86f471
PH
1778PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1779 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1780 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1781 were accidentally chopped off.
1782
a14e5636
PH
1783PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1784 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1785 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1786 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1787 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1788 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1789 pipelining has not been advertised.
1790
ec95d1a6
PH
1791PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1792
42855d71
PH
1793PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1794 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1795 This has been fixed.
1796
57c2c631
PH
1797PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1798 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1799 reported on Solaris.
1800
58c01c94
PH
1801PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1802 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1803 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1804 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1805 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1806 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1807 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1808
dee5a20a
PH
1809PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1810 cpus.
1811
d2ee6114
PH
1812PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1813
b2d5182b
PH
1814PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1815
79749a79
PH
1816PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1817 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1818 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1819 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1820 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1821 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1822
c456d9bb
PH
1823PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1824 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1825 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1826 host_all_ignored option.
1827
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PH
1828PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1829 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1830 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1831 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1832 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1833 is what is supposed to happen).
1834
ebeaf996
PH
1835PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1836 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1837 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1838 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1839 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1840 uses the Exim user.
1841
2679d413
PH
1842PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1843 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1844 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1845 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1846 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1847 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1848 users.
1849
84024b72
PH
1850PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1851
8005d38e
SC
1852SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1853 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1854 (Jez Hancock).
1855 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1856 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1857
3298c6c6
SC
1858SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1859
a43a27c5
PH
1860PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1861
58eb016e 1862PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1863 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1864 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1865 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1866 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1867 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1868 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1869 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1870 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1871 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1872 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1873
b43a74ea
PH
1874PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1875 advertised in response to EHLO.
1876
b4ed4da0 1877
5dd1517f
PH
1878Exim version 4.66
1879-----------------
1880
1881PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1882 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1883
1884 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1885 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1886
1887 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1888 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1889 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1890
1891 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1892 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1893 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1894 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1895 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1896
1897
93cfa765
TK
1898Exim version 4.65
1899-----------------
1900
1901TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1902 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1903 versions. (#438)
1904
d6066548
MH
1905MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1906 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1907 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1908
4362ff0d
PH
1909PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1910 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1911 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1912 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1913 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1914 rather than extend the field.
1915
93cfa765 1916
944e9e9c
TF
1917Exim version 4.64
1918-----------------
aa41d2de 1919
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1920TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1921 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1922 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1923 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1924 these files.
1925
1926TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1927 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1928 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1929
1930TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1931 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1932 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1933
1934TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1935 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1936 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1937 in the field name.
1938
2b1c6e3a
PH
1939PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1940 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1941 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1942 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1943 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1944 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1945 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1946 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1947 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1948 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1949 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1950
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1951PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1952 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1953
1954PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1955 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1956 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1957 ignores EPIPE as well.
1958
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1959PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1960 (quoted-printable decoding).
1961
cc2ed8f7 1962PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1963 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1964
ddfcd446
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1965PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1966
d45b1de8
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1967PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1968
1969PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1970
38a0a95f 1971PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1972 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1973
a2405d83
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1974JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1975 in 4.64-PH/09.
1976
1977JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1978 miscellaneous code fixes
1979
6ea85e9a
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1980PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1981 rejections.
1982
26da7e20
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1983PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1984 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1985 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1986 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1987 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1988 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1989 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1990 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1991
14aa5a05 1992PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1993 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
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1994 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1995 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1996 function.
1997 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1998 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1999 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2000 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2001 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2002 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2003 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2004 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2005 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2006
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2007PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2008 decoding.
2009
e6f6568e
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2010PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2011 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2012 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2013 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2014 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2015 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2016 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2017 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2018
d6f6e0dc
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2019PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2020 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2021 list.
2022
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2023PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2024 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2025 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2026 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2027 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2028 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2029 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2030 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2031 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2032 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2033 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2034 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2035 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2036
08955dd3
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2037PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2038 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2039 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2040 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2041 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2042 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2043 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2044
1eccaa59
PH
2045PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2046 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2047 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2048 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2049 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2050 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2051 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2052 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2053 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2054 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2055
602e59e5
PH
2056PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2057 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2058 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2059 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2060 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2061
411ef850
PH
2062PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2063 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2064 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2065 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2066 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2067 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2068 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2069
7befa435
PH
2070PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2071 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2072 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2073 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2074 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2075 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2076 been verified.
2077
48da4259 2078PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2079 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2080 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2081 and authorization.)
2082
48da4259
PH
2083PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2084 if any retry times were supplied.
2085
d1d5595c
PH
2086PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2087 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2088 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2089
0ef732d9
PH
2090PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2091
328895cc
PH
2092PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2093
fd700877
PH
2094PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2095 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2096 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2097 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2098 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2099 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2100
8dce1a6f
PH
2101PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2102 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2103
17af4a17
PH
2104PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2105 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2106 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2107
2108PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2109 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2110 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2111 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2112 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2113 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2114 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2115 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2116 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2117
2118 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2119 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2120 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2121 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2122 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2123 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2124 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2125 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2126 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2127
2128 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2129 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2130 hammering the server.
2131
c1114884
PH
2132PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2133 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2134
7a0743eb
PH
2135PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2136
0d85fa3f
PH
2137PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2138 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2139 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2140
1bf43b78
PH
2141PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2142 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2143 one case where this was not true.
2144
520de300
PH
2145PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2146 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2147 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2148 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2149 fails.
2150
48c7f9e2
PH
2151PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2152 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2153 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2154 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2155 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2156 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2157 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2158 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2159 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2160 smtp transport.
2161
99ea1c86
PH
2162PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2163 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2164 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2165 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2166
a2042e78
PH
2167PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2168 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2169
4fbcfc2e
PH
2170PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2171 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2172 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2173
aa41d2de
PH
2174PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2175
af561417
PH
2176PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2177
3cc66b45
PH
2178PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2179
194cc0e4
PH
2180PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2181 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2182 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2183 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2184
a401ddaa
PH
2185PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2186 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2187
4e88a19f
PH
2188PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2189 be meaningful with "accept".
2190
d7d7b289
SC
2191SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2192 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2193
2194SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2195 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2196 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2197
2198SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2199 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2200 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2201 there is data to show.
2202 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2203
2204SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2205 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2206 as well as the number of messages.
2207
2208SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2209 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2210 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2211
2212SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2213 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2214 have a flag are now skipped.
2215
2216SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2217 Added the -emptyok flag.
2218
2219SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2220 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2221
0ea2a468
JJ
2222JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2223 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2224 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2225
2226JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2227 match 4.64-PH/13
2228
2229JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2230 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2231
2232JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2233
2234JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2235 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2236
8a10f5a4
PH
2237PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2238
30e18802
PH
2239PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2240 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2241 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2242 contravention of the specifications.
2243
55728a4f
PH
2244PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2245 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2246 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2247
d7837193
PH
2248PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2249 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2250 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2251
87054a31
PH
2252PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2253
ea2c01d2
MH
2254MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2255 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2256 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2257 some point in the past.
2258
e4fa6968
PH
2259PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2260 transport during callout processing was broken.
2261
56f5d9bd
PH
2262PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2263 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2264
922e1c28
PH
2265PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2266 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2267
21eb6e72
PH
2268PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2269 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2270
a0540757
PH
2271PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2272
944e9e9c 2273
478be7b0
SC
2274Exim version 4.63
2275-----------------
2276
2277SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2278 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2279
2280SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2281 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2282 there is data to show.
2283 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2284
2285SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2286 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2287
2b965a65
TF
2288TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2289 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2290
45b91596
PH
2291TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2292 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2293
c59f5781
TF
2294TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2295 submissions from trusted users.
2296
90fc3069
TF
2297TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2298 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2299
6083aca0
TF
2300TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2301 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2302 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2303 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2304 there is now a framework to start from.
2305
765b530f
PH
2306PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2307 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2308 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2309
4e167a8c
PH
2310PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2311
4608d683
PH
2312PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2313
b8dc3e4a
PH
2314PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2315
5418e93b
PH
2316PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2317 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2318 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2319
b4a9bda2
PH
2320PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2321 libradius.
2322
45b91596
PH
2323PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2324 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2325 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2326
5547e2c5
PH
2327PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2328 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2329 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2330 its arguments.
2331
dbcef0ea
PH
2332PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2333 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2334 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2335 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2336 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2337
25257489
PH
2338PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2339 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2340
c816d124
PH
2341PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2342
a9ccd69a
PH
2343PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2344 operations in malware.c.
2345
75fa1910
PH
2346PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2347 signatures.
2348
a7d7aa58
PH
2349PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2350 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2351 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2352 all.
2353
42119b09
PH
2354PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2355 statements to "add_header".
2356
41609df5
PH
2357PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2358 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2359
a5bd321b
PH
2360PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2361 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2362 latter.
2363
e85a7ad5 2364PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2365 so that it is now:
2366
e85a7ad5
PH
2367 ${if or { \
2368 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2369 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2370 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2371 }{no}{yes}}
2372
e85a7ad5
PH
2373 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2374 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2375
d8fe1c03
PH
2376PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2377 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2378
16282d2b
PH
2379PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2380 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2381 any possible encoding problems.
2382
35d40a98
PH
2383PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2384 but not after initializing Perl.
2385
034d99ab
PH
2386PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2387 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2388 apparently, which is not desirable.
2389
6ec97b1b
PH
2390PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2391 queries.
2392
e22ca4ac
JJ
2393JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2394 --not options
2395
2396JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2397
33d73e3b
PH
2398PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2399 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2400 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2401 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2402
9ecb03f3
PH
2403PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2404 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2405 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2406
084efe8d
PH
2407PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2408 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2409 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2410 0.12.
2411
366fc9f0
PH
2412PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2413 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2414 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2415 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2416 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2417
c59f5781 2418
c887c79e
TF
2419Exim version 4.62
2420-----------------
2421
2422TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2423 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2424
1cce3af8
PH
2425PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2426 patch).
2427
afb3eaaf
PH
2428PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2429 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2430 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2431 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2432 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2433 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2434 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2435 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2436 451 error is used.
2437
e173618b
PH
2438PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2439
dd16e114
PH
2440PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2441 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2442 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2443
f7fd3850
PH
2444PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2445 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2446 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2447 odd errors.
2448
d87df92c
PH
2449PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2450 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2451
7e9f683d
PH
2452PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2453 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2454 option (which defaults to 0600).
2455
bfad5236
PH
2456PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2457
01c490df
PH
2458PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2459 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2460 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2461 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2462 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2463 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2464 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2465
d6629cdc
PH
2466PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2467
1cce3af8 2468
214e2000
PH
2469Exim version 4.61
2470-----------------
2471
2472PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2473 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2474 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2475 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2476 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2477 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2478 addresses as local.
2479
f9daeae0
PH
2480PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2481 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2482
7e66e54d
PH
2483PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2484
c8ea1597
PH
2485PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2486 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2487 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2488 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2489 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2490 grumble.
2491
911f6fde
PH
2492PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2493 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2494
47ca6d6c
PH
2495PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2496 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2497 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2498 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2499 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2500
ed0e9820
PH
2501PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2502 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2503 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2504 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2505
eff37e47
PH
2506PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2507 be the same on different OS.
2508
1921d2ea
PH
2509PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2510 testing.
2511
b3f69ca8
JJ
2512JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2513 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2514
2515JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2516 in 4.61-PH/06
2517
424a1c63
PH
2518PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2519 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2520 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2521 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2522 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2523 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2524 bounce message.
2525
7a100415
PH
2526PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2527 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2528 when Exim was called.
2529
19b9dc85
PH
2530PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2531 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2532
309bd837
PH
2533PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2534 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2535 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2536 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2537
59e82a2a
PH
2538PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2539 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2540 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2541 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2542 changes:
2543
2544 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2545 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2546 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2547
2548 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2549 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2550 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2551
9edc04ce
PH
2552PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2553 feature).
2554
1349e1e5
PH
2555PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2556 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2557 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2558 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2559 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2560 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2561 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2562 values from the SRV records were lost.
2563
ea49d0e1
PH
2564PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2565 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2566 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2567
064a94c9
PH
2568PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2569 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2570 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2571
727071f8
PH
2572PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2573 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2574 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2575 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2576 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2577 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2578 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2579 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2580 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2581 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2582
f78eb7c6
PH
2583PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2584 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2585 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2586
21c28500
PH
2587PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2588 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2589
2590PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2591 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2592 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2593 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2594 is given.
2595
1688f43b
PH
2596PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2597 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2598 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2599
2600PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2601 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2602 PH/23 above applies.
2603
9675b384
PH
2604PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2605 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2606 (for which there is an explicit test).
2607
6a3f1455
PH
2608PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2609
dac79d3e
PH
2610PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2611 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2612 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2613 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2614 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2615
5977a0b3
PH
2616PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2617 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2618 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2619 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2620
c91535f3
PH
2621PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2622 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2623 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2624
0d46a8c8
PH
2625PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2626
278c6e6c
PH
2627PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2628
2cbb4081
PH
2629PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2630 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2631 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2632
3eef829e
PH
2633PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2634 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2635 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2636 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2637 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2638
1ab95fa6
PH
2639PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2640 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2641 the message gets confusing).
2642
230205fc
PH
2643PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2644 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2645 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2646 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2647
75e0e026
PH
2648PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2649 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2650 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2651 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2652 same order.
2653
2654PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2655 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2656 the different processes.
2657
145396a6
PH
2658PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2659
3cd34f13
PH
2660PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2661
11121d3d
JJ
2662JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2663 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2664
2665JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2666 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2667
2668JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2669 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2670 messages matching specified criteria.
2671
8def5aaf
PH
2672PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2673
929ba01c
PH
2674PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2675 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2676
2632889e
PH
2677PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2678 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2679 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2680 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2681 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2682 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2683 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2684 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2685 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2686 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2687
944a9c55
PH
2688PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2689 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2690 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2691
4a23603b
PH
2692PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2693
4730f942
PH
2694PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2695 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2696 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2697 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2698 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2699 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2700 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2701 the variable.
2702
30dba1e6
PH
2703PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2704 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2705
382afc6b
PH
2706PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2707
a86229cf
PH
2708PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2709
50c99ba6
PH
2710PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2711
d35e429d
PH
2712PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2713 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2714 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2715 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2716 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2717 size of the count of files.
2718
f90d018c
PH
2719PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2720
75def545
PH
2721PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2722 used in LMTP mode:
2723
2724 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2725 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2726 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2727 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2728
2729 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2730 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2731 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2732
2733PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2734 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2735 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2736 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2737 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2738
c46782ef
PH
2739PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2740 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2741
71fafd95
PH
2742PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2743 will now be deprecated.
2744
2c5db4fd
PH
2745PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2746
9cf6b11a
JJ
2747JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2748 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2749 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2750
2751JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2752 with very large, slow to parse queues
2753
2754JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2755
2756JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2757
898d150f
PH
2758PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2759 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2760 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2761 SMTP output lines.
2762
46218253
PH
2763PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2764 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2765 Sieve code now uses this.
2766
e97957bc
PH
2767PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2768 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2769
81e509d7
PH
2770PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2771 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2772
3d240ff7
PH
2773PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2774
b37c4101
PH
2775PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2776 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2777 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2778 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2779 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2780
79378e0f
PH
2781PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2782 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2783 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2784 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2785
e49c7bb4
PH
2786PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2787
d114ec46
PH
2788PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2789
f3d7df6c
PH
2790PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2791 is preferred over IPv4.
2792
715ab376
PH
2793PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2794 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2795 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2796 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2797 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2798 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2799 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2800
6b31b150
PH
2801PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2802 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2803 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2804
2805PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2806
d515a917
PH
2807PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2808 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2809 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2810 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2811 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2812 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2813 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2814 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2815 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2816 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2817 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2818
9b8fadde
PH
2819PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2820 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2821 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2822
214e2000 2823
5de37277
PH
2824Exim version 4.60
2825-----------------
2826
cc38ddbf
PH
2827PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2828
2829 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2830 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2831
2832 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2833 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2834 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2835
72fdd6ae
PH
2836PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2837
2838 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2839 not a single digit.
2840
2841 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2842 string.
2843
2844 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2845 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2846 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2847 silly things.
2848
2849 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2850 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2851
2852 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2853 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2854
cb741023
PH
2855PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2856 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2857 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2858
f174f16e
PH
2859PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2860 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2861
c25242d7
PH
2862PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2863 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2864
2865 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2866
2867 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2868 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2869 this:
2870
2871 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2872
82c19f95
PH
2873PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2874 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2875 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2876 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2877 identical. For example:
2878
2879 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2880
2881 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2882 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2883 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2884
d7ffbc12
PH
2885PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2886 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2887 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2888 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2889
9f526266
PH
2890PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2891 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2892 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2893 message.
2894
87fcc8b9
PH
2895PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2896
2897 o fixes some comments
2898 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2899 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2900 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2901 and documents the missing references header update
2902
2903 and most important:
2904
2905 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2906 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2907 result)
2908
456682f5
PH
2909PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2910 Electronic Mail") by including:
2911
2912 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2913
2914 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2915 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2916 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2917 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2918 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2919
2920 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2921
2922 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2923
2924 The auto-replied keyword:
2925
2926 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2927 message by an automatic process,
2928
2929 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2930
2931 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2932 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2933
2934 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2935 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2936 other messages.
2937
3e46c1aa
PH
2938PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2939 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2940
49826d12
PH
2941PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2942
eba0c039
PH
2943PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2944 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2945 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2946
a0d6ba8a
PH
2947PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2948 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2949 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2950
f0917727
PH
2951PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2952 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2953 and treats the condition as false.
2954
096fee00
PH
2955PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2956
024bd3c2
PH
2957PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2958 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2959 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2960 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2961 not changing the active code.
2962
2963 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2964 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2965
2966 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2967 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2968
df199fec
PH
2969PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2970 (Bugzilla #53).
2971
d27f1df3
PH
2972PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2973 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2974 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2975 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2976 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2977 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2978 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2979 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2980 the text comparison.
2981
96776534
PH
2982PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2983 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2984 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2985 The same fix has been applied.
2986
5de37277 2987
9a799bc0
PH
2988Exim version 4.54
2989-----------------
2990
2991PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2992 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2993 It now does.
2994
99a4b039
PH
2995PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2996 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2997
2998PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2999
4b233853
PH
3000PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3001 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3002 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3003 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3004 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3005
8857ccfd
PH
3006TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3007 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3008 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3009 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3010 or /domain=).
3011
433a2980
PH
3012PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3013 testing suite.
3014
3e46c1aa 3015
9a799bc0 3016
e3a311ba
TK
3017Exim version 4.53
3018-----------------
3019
3020TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3021 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3022
13b685f9
PH
3023PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3024
395ff96d
PH
3025PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3026
5b68f6e4
PH
3027PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3028 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3029 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3030
1ab52c69
PH
3031PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3032 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3033 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3034
b07e6aa3
PH
3035PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3036 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3037 operating systems.
3038
254e032f
PH
3039PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3040 ${stat: expansion item.
3041
3af76a81
PH
3042PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3043 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3044
2548ba04
PH
3045PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3046 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3047 file for comments.
3048
b6c6011d
PH
3049PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3050
cf39cf57
PH
3051PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3052 setting.
3053
f1513293
PH
3054PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3055 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3056
727549a4
PH
3057TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3058
af46795e
PH
3059PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3060 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3061 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3062 the end of the subprocess.
3063
d7b47fd0
PH
3064PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3065 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3066 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3067 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3068 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3069
ee744174
JJ
3070JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3071
b582ab87
PH
3072TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3073
41a13e0a
PH
3074PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3075 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3076
f625cc5a
PH
3077PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3078
3079PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3080
21f7af35
PH
3081PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3082 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3083 HP-UX compiler.
3084
31480e42
PH
3085PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3086
2d280592
PH
3087PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3088 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3089 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3090
7cd1141b
PH
3091PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3092 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3093
3094PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3095 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3096
750af86e
PH
3097PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3098 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3099
3100 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3101 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3102
3103 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3104 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3105 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3106 contributed by a Radius user.
3107
3108PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3109 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3110
4304270b
TK
3111TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3112 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3113
750af86e
PH
3114PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3115 available.
3116
64ffc24f
PH
3117PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3118 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3119 received.
3120
5dd9625b
PH
3121PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3122 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3123 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3124 header lines when this was not necessary.
3125
5591031b
PH
3126PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3127
ba18e66a
PH
3128PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3129 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3130 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3131 exists".
3132
9cec981f
PH
3133PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3134 -bV or -d is used.
3135
aa2b5c79
PH
3136PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3137 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3138 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3139 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3140
48a53b7f
PH
3141PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3142
1c59d63b
PH
3143PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3144
671012da
TK
3145TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3146
1509d3a8
PH
3147PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3148
3149PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3150 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3151 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3152 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3153 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3154 settings.
3155
3156PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3157
2fe1a124
PH
3158PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3159 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3160 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3161 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3162 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3163 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3164 which is clearly wrong.
3165
8800895a
PH
3166PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3167
ccfdb010
PH
3168PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3169 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3170 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3171 subsequently added.
3172
1130bfb0
PH
3173PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3174 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3175
ebcb507f
PH
3176PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3177
c35e155c
PH
3178PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3179 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3180
95d1f782
PH
3181PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3182 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3183
fd6de02e
PH
3184PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3185 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3186
58de37c5
PH
3187PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3188 recipients, not senders.
3189
261cf466
TF
3190TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3191 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3192
3ee512ff
PH
3193PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3194
e08c430f
PH
3195PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3196
bef5a11f
PH
3197PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3198 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3199 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3200 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3201
7546de58
TF
3202TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3203
e5d5a95f
TF
3204TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3205 clock is set back in time.
3206
2e88a017
TF
3207TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3208 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3209
a5f65aa4
TF
3210TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3211 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3212
e7726cbf
PH
3213PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3214 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3215 (see PH/47 above).
3216
a7fdad5b
TF
3217TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3218 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3219 header rewrites.
3220
6af56900
PH
3221PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3222 type ("H").
3223
0925ede6
PH
3224PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3225
66afa403
TF
3226TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3227 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3228 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3229
0154e85a
TF
3230TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3231 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3232 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3233 helo verification defer as a failure.
3234
16f12c76
PH
3235PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3236 actual error message.
3237
bbe902f0 3238
e5a9dba6
PH
3239Exim version 4.52
3240-----------------
3241
3242TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3243
22c3b60b
PH
3244PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3245 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3246 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3247 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3248
06a9b4b5
PH
3249TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3250
c1ac6996
PH
3251PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3252 can still be requested.
3253
9c7a242c
PH
3254PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3255 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3256 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3257 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3258
87ba3f5f
PH
3259TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3260 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3261 circumstances, but probably never did.
3262
3263PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3264 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3265 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3266 in the header line.
3267
29aba418
TF
3268TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3269
fe0dab11
TF
3270TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3271 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3272
11d337a4
TK
3273TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3274
3275TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3276
415c8f3b
PH
3277PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3278 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3279 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3280 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3281 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3282 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3283
958541e9
PH
3284PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3285 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3286 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3287 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3288 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3289 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3290
c206415f
TK
3291TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3292 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3293
2a4be8f9
PH
3294PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3295 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3296
1cba11c5
SC
3297SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3298 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3299
3300SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3301
3302SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3303
3304SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3305
3306SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3307
3308SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3309
3310SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3311
1005d00e
TK
3312TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3313
3314TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3315 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3316 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3317
3318TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3319 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3320 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3321 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3322
9b4768fa
PH
3323PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3324 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3325 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3326
3327PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3328 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3329 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3330 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3331
0d7eb84a
PH
3332PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3333 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3334 to be made).
3335
3336PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3337 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3338 should work with maildirs and everything.
3339
40727bee
TK
3340TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3341 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3342
554d2369
TF
3343TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3344 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3345
1f922db1
PH
3346PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3347 function for BDB 4.3.
3348
ef213c3b
PH
3349PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3350
8ac170f3
PH
3351PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3352 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3353 involved.
3354
b1c749bb
PH
3355PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3356 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3357 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3358 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3359 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3360 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3361
4aac9b49
PH
3362PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3363 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3364 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3365 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3366 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3367 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3368 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3369 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3370
294520c8
TK
3371TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3372 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3373 details.
3374
5bd022fe
PH
3375PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3376 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3377
90e9ce59
PH
3378PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3379 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3380 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3381 test. It is now used for both.
3382
5ea81592
PH
3383PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3384 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3385 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3386 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3387 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3388 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3389
c6c2dc1d
PH
3390PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3391 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3392 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3393 string_vformat().
3394
fffffe4c
PH
3395PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3396 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3397 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3398
9a26b6b2
PH
3399PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3400 experimental DomainKeys support:
3401
3402 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3403 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3404 the control was given.
3405
3406 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3407
4aee0225
PH
3408PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3409
32d668a5
PH
3410PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3411
8187c3f3
PH
3412PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3413 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3414 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3415 db.h files).
3416
ff790e47 3417PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3418 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3419 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3420 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3421 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3422 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3423 course.
ff790e47 3424
5417f6d1
PH
3425PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3426 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3427 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3428 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3429 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3430 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3431
59cf8544
PH
3432PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3433 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3434 do -d+all out of habit.
3435
e7ad8a65
PH
3436PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3437 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3438 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3439
ade42478
PH
3440PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3441 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3442 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3443 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3444 record types that Exim uses.
3445
182ad5cf
PH
3446PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3447 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3448 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3449 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3450 non-existent file that was broken.
3451
b0d9fc80
TK
3452TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3453 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3454
3455TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3456 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3457 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3458
3459TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3460
47c7a64a
PH
3461PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3462 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3463 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3464 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3465 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3466 same time.
3467
a388bce4
SC
3468SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3469 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3470 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3471 at a slight CPU cost.
3472
3473SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3474 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3475
3476SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3477 by Marc Sherman.
3478
0793e4ed
SC
3479SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3480
c58b88df
PH
3481PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3482 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3483
e7ad8a65 3484
7982096b
PH
3485Exim version 4.51
3486-----------------
3487
1a46a8c5
PH
3488TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3489 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3490
2f079f46 3491TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3492
3493TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3494
3495PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3496 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3497
3498PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3499 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3500 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3501 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3502 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3503 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3504 file.
3505
3506PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3507 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3508 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3509 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3510 these two options.
3511
3512PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3513 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3514 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3515 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3516 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3517 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3518 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3519 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3520
3521PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3522 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3523
3524PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3525 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3526 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3527 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3528 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3529 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3530
3531PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3532 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3533 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3534 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3535
3536PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3537 Finch).
3538
3539PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3540 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3541
49c2d5ea
PH
3542PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3543 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3544 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3545 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3546 message.
49c2d5ea 3547
bf759a8b
PH
3548PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3549
83364d30
PH
3550PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3551 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3552
7999bbd7
PH
3553PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3554 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3555 to what was transported.)
3556
7dbf77c9
PH
3557TF/01 Added $received_time.
3558
74e0617f
PH
3559PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3560 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3561 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3562 spamd_address settings.
3563
2f079f46
PH
3564PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3565 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3566 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3567 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3568 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3569
8c841523
PH
3570PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3571
7766a4f0
PH
3572PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3573 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3574 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3575 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3576 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3577
8b417f2c
PH
3578PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3579 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3580
901f42cb
PH
3581PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3582 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3583 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3584 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3585 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3586 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3587 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3588 for failure.
3589
f9b9210e
PH
3590PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3591 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3592 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3593 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3594 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3595 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3596 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3597 "input=".
3598
54cdb463
PH
3599PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3600
cf00dad6
PH
3601PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3602 driver and ACL definitions.
3603
acb1b346
PH
3604PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3605 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3606
c5ddb310
PH
3607PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3608 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3609 understands it better than I do:
3610
3611 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3612 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3613
3614 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3615 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3616 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3617 => three warnings about OTP not working
3618 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3619
3620 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3621 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3622 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3623 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3624 for each call.)
3625 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3626 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3627
3628 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3629 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3630 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3631
31619da6
PH
3632PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3633 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3634 specified.
3635
bebaf0fc
PH
3636PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3637 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3638 "Linux".
3639
475fe28a
PH
3640PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3641 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3642 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3643
3644 warn !verify = sender
3645 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3646
3647 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3648 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3649
7e8bec7a
PH
3650PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3651
3652 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3653 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3654
3655 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3656 nomenclature these days.)
3657
e4a89c47
PH
3658PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3659 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3660
5ca2a9a1
PH
3661PH/30 In these circumstances:
3662 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3663 . First host does not offer TLS;
3664 . First host accepts first address;
3665 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3666 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3667 . Second host accepts second address.
3668 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3669 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3670 address.
7e8bec7a 3671
c688b954
PH
3672PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3673 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3674 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3675 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3676 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3677
fed77020
PH
3678PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3679 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3680
7fe1560f
PH
3681PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3682 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3683
ebb6e6d5
PH
3684PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3685 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3686 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3687
9c4e8f60
PH
3688PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3689 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3690 overlooked.
3691
3692PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3693
d7174846
PH
3694PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3695 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3696 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3697 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3698 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3699 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3700 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3701
3702 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3703 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3704 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3705 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3706 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3707
3708 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3709 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3710 routed further.
3711
cfe75fc3
PH
3712PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3713 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3714 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3715 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3716 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3717 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3718
be22d70e
PH
3719PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3720
0612b098
PH
3721PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3722 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3723 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3724 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3725 printable escape sequences.
3726
2e0c1448
PH
3727PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3728 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3729 body only.
3730
447d236c
PH
3731PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3732 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3733 are as follows:
3734
3735 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3736 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3737 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3738 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3739 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3740
3741 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3742 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3743 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3744
d20976dc
PH
3745PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3746
f656d135
PH
3747PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3748 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3749 play with."
3750
2e2a30b4
PH
3751PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3752 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3753 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3754 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3755 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3756 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3757 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3758 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3759 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3760 the log output.
3761
9176e9f0
PH
3762PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3763 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3764 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3765 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3766 "make".
3767
7982096b 3768
bbe902f0
PH
3769A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3770----------------------------------------
3771
3772Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3773changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3774needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3775in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3776that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3777release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3778from 4.43.
3779
3780I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
37814.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3782those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3783historical information.
3784
3785
f7b63901 3786Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3787-----------------
3788
5fe762f6
PH
3789 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3790
139059f6 3791 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3792 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3793
7086e875
PH
3794 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3795 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3796 place.
3797
35af9f61
PH
3798 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3799 filter fails to execute.
3800
b668c215
PH
3801 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3802 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3803 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3804 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3805 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3806
a494b1e1
PH
3807 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3808
3809 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3810 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3811 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3812 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3813
c5fcb476
PH
3814 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3815 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3816 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3817 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3818 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3819
69358f02
PH
3820 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3821
5be20824
PH
382210. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3823
eb2c0248
PH
382411. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3825 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3826 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3827 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3828
2a3eea10
PH
382912. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3830 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3831 sender verification.
3832
383313. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3834 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3835
23c7ff99
PH
383614. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3837
4deaf07d
PH
383815. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3839 connection timeout.
3840
926e1192
PH
384116. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3842 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3843
650edc6f
PH
384417. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3845 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3846
2c7db3f5
PH
384718. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3848 information about exactly what failed.
3849
3d235903
PH
385019. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3851
7c7ad977
PH
385220. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3853 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3854 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3855
981756db
PH
385621. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3857 It is now set to "smtps".
3858
d4eb88df
PH
385922. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3860 ignore_target_hosts.
3861
386223. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3863 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3864 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3865 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3866 "[x.x.x.x]".
3867
7d468ab8
PH
386824. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3869 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3870 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3871
387225. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3873 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3874 wake it up if nothing else does.
3875
62c0818f
PH
387626. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3877 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3878 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3879 end up negative.
3880
26034054
PH
388127. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3882 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3883
af66f652
PH
388428. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3885
90af77f4
PH
388629. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3887 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3888 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3889 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3890 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3891 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3892 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3893 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3894
d8ef3577
PH
389530. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3896 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3897 than one IP address.
3898
5cb8cbc6
PH
389931. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3900 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3901 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3902 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3903
14702f5b
PH
390432. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3905 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3906 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3907 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3908 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3909 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3910
063b1e99
PH
391133. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3912 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3913 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3914 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3915
652e1b65
PH
391634. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3917 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3918 respected.
3919
6f0c9a4f
PH
392035. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3921 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3922 $sender_host_address.
3923
33397d19
PH
392436. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3925 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3926 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3927 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3928 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3929 very small.
3930
7bb56e1f
PH
393137. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3932
3933 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3934 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3935
ea3bc19b
PH
3936 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3937 just the host names, not the priorities.
3938
3939 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3940 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3941 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3942
ea3bc19b 3943 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3944 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3945
0bcb2a0e
PH
394638. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3947 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3948 domain.
3949
2ac0e484
PH
395039. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3951
4e1fde53
PH
395240. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3953 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3954
de365ded
PH
395541. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3956 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3957 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3958
f05da2e8
PH
395942. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3960
d6453af2
PH
396143. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3962
f7b63901
PH
396344. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3964
396545. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3966 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3967 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3968 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3969 because the tests only now provoked it.
3970
a444213a
PH
397146. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3972 (this can affect the format of dates).
3973
0ec020ea
PH
397447. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3975 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3976 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3977 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3978
b1206957
PH
397948. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3980
398149. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3982 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3983 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3984 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3985
26dd5a95
PH
398650. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3987 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3988 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3989
343b2385
PH
399051. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3991 autoreply.
3992
1c5466b9
PH
399352. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3994 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3995 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3996 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3997 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3998 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3999 is going on).
4000
55ee9ee3
PH
400153. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4002 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4003 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4004 the line.
4005
d38f8232
PH
400654. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4007 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4008 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4009
4010 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4011 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4012 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4013 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4014 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4015 so I produce this patch..."
4016
3295e65b
PH
4017 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4018 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4019 is not defined.
4020
7102e136
PH
402155. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4022 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4023 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4024 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4025 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4026
3ca0ba97
PH
402756. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4028
c2bcbe20
PH
402957. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4030 long debug lines gets shown.
4031
18ce445d
PH
403258. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4033 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4034
1f5b4c3d
PH
403559. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4036
4037 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4038 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4039 of $primary_hostname.
4040
b975ba52
PH
404160. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4042 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4043 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4044 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4045 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4046 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4047 by change 4.50/55 above.
4048
4049 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4050 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4051 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4052 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4053 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4054 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4055 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4056
405761. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4058 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4059 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4060 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4061
17ffcae7
PH
406262. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4063 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4064
d95f9fdb
PH
406563. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4066 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4067 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4068 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4069 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4070
86b8287f
PH
407164. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4072 This has been fixed.
4073
60dc5e56
PH
407465. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4075 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4076 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4077 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4078 the caching.)
4079
533244af
PH
408066. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4081
a5a28604
PH
408267. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4083 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4084 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4085 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4086
7e634d24
PH
408768. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4088 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4089
3e11c26b
PH
409069. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4091 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4092 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4093
6729cf78
PH
409470. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4095 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4096 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4097 message there.
4098
00f00ca5
PH
409971. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4100 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4101 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4102
c9bdd01c
PH
410372. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4104 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4105 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4106 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4107
d43194df
PH
410873. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4109 during host lookups.
4110
fe5b5d0b
PH
411174. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4112 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4113
4114 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4115
76a2d7ba
PH
411675. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4117 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4118 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4119 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4120 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4121 background.
4122
412376. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4124 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4125
04f7d5b9
PH
412677. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4127 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4128 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4129
bc60667e
PH
413078. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4131
bb6e88ff
PH
413279. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4133 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4134 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4135 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4136 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4137 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4138 process earlier.
4139
1e70f85b
PH
414080. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4141 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4142 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4143 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4144 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4145
414681. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4147 tables).
4148
4e01f9d6
PH
414982. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4150
1ee1cef2
PH
415183. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4152 "vacation" handling.
4153
6e2b4ccc
PH
415484. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4155 OS variants using glibc.
4156
8e669ac1
PH
415785. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4158
495ae4b0 4159
bbe902f0
PH
4160----------------------------------------------------
4161See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4162----------------------------------------------------
4163
4164
4165Exim version 4.44
4166-----------------
4167
4168 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4169 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4170 transport
4171
4172 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4173 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4174 place.
4175
4176 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4177 filter fails to execute.
4178
4179 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4180 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4181 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4182 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4183 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4184
4185 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4186 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4187 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4188 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4189
4190 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4191 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4192 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4193 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4194 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4195
4196 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4197
4198 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4199 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4200 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4201 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4202
4203 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4204 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4205 sender verification.
4206
420710. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4208 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4209
421011. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4211 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4212
421312. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4214 ignore_target_hosts.
4215
421613. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4217 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4218 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4219 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4220 "[x.x.x.x]".
4221
422214. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4223 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4224 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4225
422615. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4227 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4228 wake it up if nothing else does.
4229
423016. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4231 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4232 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4233 end up negative.
4234
423517. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4236 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4237
ea3a6f44 423818. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4239
424019. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4241 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4242 empty pattern.
4243
424420. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4245 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4246 one IP address.
4247
ea3a6f44
NM
424821. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4249 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4250 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4251 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4252 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4253 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4254
ea3a6f44
NM
425522. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4256 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4257 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4258
425923. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4260 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4261 $sender_host_address.
4262
426324. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4264
ea3a6f44
NM
426525. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4266 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4267 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4268
426926. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4270 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4271
ea3a6f44
NM
427227. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4273 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4274
ea3a6f44
NM
427528. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4276 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4277 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4278 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4279
428029. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4281 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4282 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4283
ea3a6f44
NM
428430. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4285 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4286 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4287 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4288
ea3a6f44
NM
428931. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4290 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4291 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4292
ea3a6f44
NM
429331. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4294 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4295
ea3a6f44
NM
429632. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4297 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4298 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4299 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4300 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4301 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4302 is going on).
bbe902f0 4303
ea3a6f44
NM
430433. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4305 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4306 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4307 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4308 CAN-2005-0021
4309
ea3a6f44
NM
431034. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4311 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4312 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4313 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4314 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4315 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4316 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4317
4318 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4319 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4320 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4321 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4322 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4323 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4324 CAN-2005-0021
4325
ea3a6f44
NM
432635. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4327 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4328 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4329 CAN-2005-0022
4330
ea3a6f44
NM
433136. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4332 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4333 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4334 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4335 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4336
ea3a6f44
NM
433737. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4338 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4339 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4340 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4341 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4342
ea3a6f44
NM
434338. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4344 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4345 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4346 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4347 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4348
4349
495ae4b0
PH
4350Exim version 4.43
4351-----------------
4352
4353 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4354 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4355 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4356 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4357 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4358 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4359 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4360
4361 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4362 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4363 the delivery.
4364
4365 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4366
4367 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4368
4369 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4370 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4371 to local_scan().
4372
4373 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4374 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4375 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4376 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4377 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4378
4379 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4380 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4381
4382 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4383
4384 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4385
438610. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4387 header_sender only.
4388
438911. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4390 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4391
439212. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4393 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4394 affecting debugging statements).
4395
439613. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4397
439814. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4399 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4400 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4401 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4402 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4403 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4404 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4405 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4406 after the received time, and all would be well.
4407
440815. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4409 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4410 condition in an expansion string.
4411
441216. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4413
441417. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4415 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4416 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4417 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4418 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4419 job under whatever limits there are.
4420
442118. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4422
442319. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4424 space).
4425
442620. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4427 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4428 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4429 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4430 return path is set.
4431
443221. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4433 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4434 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4435 binary data in such strings.
4436
443722. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4438
443923. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4440 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4441 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4442 failure, which is pointless.
4443
444424. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4445
444625. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4447
444826. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4449 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4450 Sender: header lines.
4451
445227. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4453 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4454 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4455
445628. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4457 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4458 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4459 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4460 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4461 happens.
4462
446329. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4464 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4465 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4466 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4467 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4468
446930. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4470 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4471 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4472 1024.
4473
447431. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4475 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4476
447732. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4478 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4479
448033. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4481
448232. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4483
448433. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4485
448634. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4487 syntax error.
4488
448935. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4490
449136. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4492
449337. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4494 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4495 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4496 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4497
449838. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4499 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4500
4501
4502Exim version 4.42
4503-----------------
4504
4505 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4506 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4507 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4508 it was not quoted.
4509 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4510 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4511 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4512 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4513 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4514 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4515
4516 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4517 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4518 verification failure".
4519
4520 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4521 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4522 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4523 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4524
4525 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4526 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4527 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4528 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4529 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4530 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4531 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4532 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4533 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4534 treated as a timeout.
4535
4536 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4537 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4538 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4539 not set for Exim filters).
4540
4541 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4542 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4543 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4544
4545 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4546
4547 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4548 try to make them clearer.
4549
4550 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4551 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4552
4553 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4554
4555 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4556
455710. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4558 only the Cygwin environment.
4559
456011. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4561 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4562 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4563 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4564 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4565
456612. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4567 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4568 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4569 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4570 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4571 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4572 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4573
457413. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4575 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4576
457714. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4578
4579 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4580 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4581 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4582
4583 To: susanne@some.where
4584
4585 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4586 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4587 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4588 of addresses in From: header lines).
4589
4590 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4591 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4592 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4593
4594 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4595 treated as non-personal.
4596
4597 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4598 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4599
460015. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4601
460216. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4603
460417. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4605 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4606 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4607
460818. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4609 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4610
461119. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4612 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4613 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4614 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4615 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4616 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4617
461820. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4619 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4620 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4621 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4622 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4623 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4624 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4625 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4626
4627 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4628
462921. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4630 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4631
463222. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4633 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4634 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4635
463623. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4637 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4638
463924. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4640 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4641 rather than long int.
4642
464325. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4644
464526. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4646
4647
4648Exim version 4.41
4649-----------------
4650
4651 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4652 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4653 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4654 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4655 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4656 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4657
4658
4659Exim version 4.40
4660-----------------
4661
4662 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4663 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4664
4665 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4666 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4667 socklen_t is defined.
4668
4669 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4670 always exist.
4671
4672 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4673 configured.
4674
4675 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4676 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4677 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4678 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4679 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4680
4681 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4682 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4683 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4684 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4685
4686 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4687 of flapping under certain conditions.
4688
4689 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4690 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4691 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4692
4693 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4694
469510. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4696
469711. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4698 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4699 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4700 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4701
470212. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4703 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4704 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4705 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4706 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4707 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4708 preserved with the message after it was received.
4709
471013. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4711 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4712 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4713 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4714 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4715 test suite worked just fine.
4716
471714. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4718 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4719 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4720
472115. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4722 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4723 string.
4724
472516. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4726 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4727 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4728 does not fully solve it.
4729
473017. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4731 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4732 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4733 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4734 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4735
473618. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4737 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4738 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4739
474019. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4741 string, for example:
4742
4743 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4744
4745 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4746 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4747 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4748 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4749 the routers could not see them.
4750
475120. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4752 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4753
475421. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4755 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4756 output).
4757
475822. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4759 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4760 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4761 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4762 that needed quoting.
4763
476423. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4765 was not being matched caselessly.
4766
476724. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4768 backslashes.
4769
477025. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4771 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4772 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4773 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4774 when use_sender is false.
4775
477626. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4777
477827. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4779
478028. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4781
478229. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4783 the configuration file.
4784
478530. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4786 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4787
478831. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4789
479032. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4791 bytes in the message body.
4792
479333. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4794 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4795 delivery.
4796
479734. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4798
479935. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4800
480136. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4802 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4803 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4804 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4805 another IP address.
4806
4807
4808Exim version 4.34
4809-----------------
4810
4811 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4812 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4813
4814 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4815 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4816 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4817 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4818 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4819
4820 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4821 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4822
4823 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4824 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4825 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4826
4827 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4828 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4829 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4830
4831 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4832 for routers.
4833
4834 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4835 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4836 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4837 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4838 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4839 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4840 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4841
4842
4843Exim version 4.33
4844-----------------
4845
4846 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4847 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4848 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4849 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4850 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4851 default (and expected) setting.
4852
4853 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4854 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4855 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4856 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4857
4858 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4859 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4860
4861 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4862 in domain lists.
4863
4864 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4865 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4866 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4867 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4868 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4869 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4870
4871 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4872 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4873 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4874
4875 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4876 part (NOT match_host).
4877
4878 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4879
4880 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4881 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4882 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4883 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4884 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4885 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4886 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4887 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4888 the same named file.
4889
489010. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4891 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4892 when Exim is built.
4893
489411. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4895 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4896 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4897 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4898 a host name.
4899
490012. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4901 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4902 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4903
490413. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4905
490614. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4907
490815. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4909
491016. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4911 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4912
491317. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4914 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4915 before starting the TLS session.
4916
491718. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4918
491919. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4920 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4921
492220. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4923 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4924 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4925 colon in the middle).
4926
4927
4928Exim version 4.32
4929-----------------
4930
4931 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4932 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4933 multiple configurations are in use.
4934
4935 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4936 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4937 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4938 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4939 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4940 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4941
4942 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4943 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4944
4945 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4946 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4947 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4948
4949 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4950 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4951 occurs.
4952
4953 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4954 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4955
4956 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4957
4958 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4959 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4960
4961 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4962
4963 -prval:sval
4964
4965 is equivalent to
4966
4967 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4968
4969 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4970 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4971 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4972 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4973 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4974
497510. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4976 Exim's behaviour:
4977
4978 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4979 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4980 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4981 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4982 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4983 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4984
4985 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4986 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4987 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4988 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4989 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4990 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4991 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4992 string.
4993
4994 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4995 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4996 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4997 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4998 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4999
500011. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5001
500212. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5003 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5004 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5005
500613. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5007
500814. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5009 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5010 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5011 information.
5012
501315. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5014 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5015
501616. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5017 Three changes have been made:
5018
5019 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5020 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5021 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5022 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5023 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5024
5025 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5026 been restored.
5027
5028 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5029 the modified behaviour.
5030
5031
5032Exim version 4.31
5033-----------------
5034
5035 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5036 Larry Rosenman.
5037
5038 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5039 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5040
5041 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5042 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5043 try to track down a specific problem.
5044
5045 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5046 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5047 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5048
5049 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5050 warning.
5051
5052 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5053 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5054 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5055 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5056 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5057 some earlier ones do not.
5058
5059 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5060
5061 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5062 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5063 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5064 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5065 address literals are enabled, of course).
5066
5067 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5068
506910. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5070 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5071 by a command such as
5072
5073 exim -f "" ...
5074
5075 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5076
507711. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5078
507912. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5080 remained set. It is now erased.
5081
508213. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5083 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5084
508514. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5086 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5087 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5088 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5089 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5090 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5091 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5092 appropriate error code.
5093
509415. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5095 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5096 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5097 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5098 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5099 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5100
510116. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5102 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5103 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5104
510517. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5106 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5107 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5108 terminate the header.
5109
511018. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5111 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5112 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5113
511419. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5115 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5116 (4.30/29). In particular:
5117
5118 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5119 imposed.
5120
5121 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5122 to write a maildirsize file.
5123
5124 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5125 the transport, the new value overrides.
5126
5127 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5128 count.
5129
513020. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5131 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5132 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5133 space or a tab.
5134
513521. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5136 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5137 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5138 the fallback hosts.
5139
514022. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5141 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5142 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5143
514423. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5145 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5146 using a union.
5147
514824. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5149 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5150 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5151
515225. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5153
515426. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5155
515627. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5157
515828. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5159 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5160 become corrupted.
5161
516229. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5163 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5164 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5165 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5166 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5167 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5168 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5169 too great.
5170
517130. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5172 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5173 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5174 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5175 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5176 incorrectly.
5177
517831. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5179 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5180 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5181 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5182 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5183 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5184 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5185 cached value only when the same options are set.
5186
518732. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5188
518933. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5190 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5191 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5192 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5193 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5194
519534: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5196 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5197 it is clearly obsolete.
5198
519935. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5200 transport.
5201
520236. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5203 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5204 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5205 times.
5206
520737. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5208 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5209 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5210 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5211 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5212
521338. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5214 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5215 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5216 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5217
521839. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5219
5220 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5221
5222 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5223 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5224 2^31.
5225
522640. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5227 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5228 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5229 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5230 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5231 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5232 $localpart_data.
5233
523441. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5235 with the -f command-line option.
5236
523742. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5238 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5239 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5240 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5241 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5242 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5243
524443. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5245 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5246 line.
5247
524844. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5249 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5250 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5251 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5252 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5253 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5254 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5255 buffer is too small.
5256
525745. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5258 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5259
526046. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5261 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5262 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5263 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5264 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5265 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5266 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5267 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5268 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5269
527047. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5271 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5272 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5273
527448. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5275 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5276 ACL").
5277
527849. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5279 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5280 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5281 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5282 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5283
528450. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5285 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5286 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5287 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5288 is set.
5289
529051. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5291
529252. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5293
529453. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5295 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5296
529754. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5298 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5299 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5300
530155. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5302 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5303 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5304 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5305 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5306
530756. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5308 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5309 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5310 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5311 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5312 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5313 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5314
531557. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5316 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5317 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5318 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5319 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5320 the test of how many are available.
5321
532258. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5323 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5324 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5325 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5326 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5327 new message is started.
5328
532959. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5330 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5331
533260. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5333 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5334
533561. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5336 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5337 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5338 is no long logged.
5339
534062. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5341 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5342 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5343 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5344 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5345 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5346 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5347
534863. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5349 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5350 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5351 interpreted as octal.
5352
535364. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5354 setting.
5355
535665. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5357 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5358 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5359 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5360 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5361 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5362
536366. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5364 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5365 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5366 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5367
5368 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5369 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5370 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5371 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5372
5373 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5374 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5375 is a bug fix.
5376
5377 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5378 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5379
538067. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5381
538268. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5383 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5384 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5385 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5386
538769. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5388 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5389 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5390 supplied", which is not helpful.
5391
539270. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5393 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5394 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5395
539671. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5397 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5398 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5399 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5400 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5401 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5402 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5403 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5404
540572. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5406 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5407 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5408 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5409 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5410
541173. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5412 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5413 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5414 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5415 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5416 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5417
541874. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5419 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5420 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5421
542275. Added write_rejectlog option.
5423
542476. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5425 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5426 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5427 variables.
5428
542977. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5430
543178. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5432 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5433 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5434 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5435 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5436 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5437 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5438 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5439
544079. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5441 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5442 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5443 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5444 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5445
544680. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5447 Haardt.
5448
544981. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5450 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5451 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5452 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5453 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5454 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5455 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5456 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5457 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5458
5459
5460Exim version 4.30
5461-----------------
5462
5463 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5464 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5465 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5466
5467 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5468 fixed.
5469
5470 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5471 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5472 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5473
5474 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5475 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5476 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5477 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5478 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5479 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5480
5481 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5482 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5483 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5484 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5485 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5486 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5487 the Exim test suite.
5488
5489 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5490 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5491 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5492 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5493
5494 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5495 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5496 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5497 specify it in this variable.
5498
5499 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5500 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5501 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5502 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5503
5504 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5505 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5506 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5507 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5508
5509 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5510 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5511 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5512 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5513 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5514
5515 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5516
551710. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5518 they are logged.
5519
552011. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5521 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5522 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5523 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5524 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5525
552612. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5527 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5528
552913. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5530 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5531 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5532 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5533 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5534
553514. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5536 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5537
553815. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5539 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5540 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5541
554216. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5543 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5544
554517. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5546 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5547
554818. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5549 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5550 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5551
555219. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5553 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5554
555520. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5556 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5557 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5558 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5559
556021. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5561
556222. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5563 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5564 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5565 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5566
556723. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5568
556924. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5570 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5571
557225. Added .include_if_exists.
5573
557426. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5575 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5576 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5577 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5578 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5579 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5580
558127. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5582
558328. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5584 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5585 this.
5586
558729. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5588
558930. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5590 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5591
5592 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5593 550 Sender verify failed
5594
5595 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5596 the final line of the response.
5597
559831. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5599 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5600 all other user lookups.
5601
560232. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5603 delivery time.
5604
560533. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5606 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5607 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5608 result into an int without checking.
5609
561034. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5611 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5612 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5613
561435. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5615 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5616 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5617 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5618
561936. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5620 correctly.
5621
562237. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5623 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5624
562538. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5626 to the empty sender.
5627
562839. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5629 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5630 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5631 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5632 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5633 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5634 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5635 panic log.
5636
563740. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5638 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5639 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5640 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5641 used.
5642
564341. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5644 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5645
564642. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5647 timestamps.
5648
564943. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5650 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5651
565244. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5653
565445. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5655 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5656 logs.
5657
565846. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5659 as soon as it is encountered.
5660
566147. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5662
566348. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5664 rewritten to "<>".
5665
566649. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5667 recognizes a tab character.
5668
566950. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5670 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5671 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5672 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5673
567451. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5675
567652. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5677 crash.
5678
567953. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5680
568154. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5682
568355. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5684 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5685 2822.
5686
568756. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5688 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5689 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5690 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5691 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5692
569357. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5694 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5695
569658. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5697 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5698 list (.included file names were always shown).
5699
570059. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5701 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5702 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5703 root at that time.
5704
570560. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5706 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5707
570861. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5709
571062. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5711
571263. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5713
571464. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5715 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5716 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5717 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5718 failures to open the logs.
5719
572065. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5721 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5722 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5723 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5724 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5725 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5726 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5727
5728
5729Exim version 4.24
5730-----------------
5731
5732 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5733 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5734 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5735 change 4.23/1.
5736
5737 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5738 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5739 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5740
5741 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5742 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5743 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5744
5745 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5746 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5747 causing some misleading effects.
5748
5749 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5750 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5751 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5752
5753 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5754 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5755 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5756 queue-runner function directly.
5757
5758
5759Exim version 4.23
5760-----------------
5761
5762 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5763 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5764
5765 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5766 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5767 was always written to the default place.
5768
5769 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5770 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5771 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5772
5773 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5774
5775 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5776
5777 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5778 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5779 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5780
5781 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5782 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5783 must start.
5784
5785 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5786 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5787 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5788
5789 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5790 command line option is disabled.
5791
5792 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5793 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5794
5795 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5796
5797 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5798
5799 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5800 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5801
580210. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5803
580411. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5805 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5806 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5807 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5808 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5809 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5810
581112. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5812 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5813 timeout.
5814
581513. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5816 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5817
581814. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5819 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5820
582115. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5822 received was valid base64.
5823
582416. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5825 name of the variable that was being set.
5826
582717. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5828
582918. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5830 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5831 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5832 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5833 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5834 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5835
583619. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5837
583820. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5839 nor realm was specified.
5840
584121. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5842 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5843 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5844 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5845
584622. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5847 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5848 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5849
585023. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5851 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5852 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5853
585424. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5855 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5856 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5857 some systems use these upper case variants.
5858
585925. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5860 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5861 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5862 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5863
586426. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5865
586627. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5867 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5868
586928. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5870 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5871 expansion variable.
5872
587329. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5874
587530. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5876 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5877 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5878 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5879
588031. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5881 using it.
5882
588332. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5884 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5885 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5886
588733. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5888 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5889
589034. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5891 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5892 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5893 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5894
589535. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5896 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5897 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5898
589936. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5900
590137. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5902 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5903 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5904 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5905 aborted.
5906
590738. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5908 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5909 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5910
591139. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5912
591340. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5914 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5915
591641. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5917 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5918
591942. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5920 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5921 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5922 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5923 when emails are that large.
5924
5925
5926
5927Exim version 4.22
5928-----------------
5929
5930 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5931 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5932
5933 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5934 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5935 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5936
5937 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5938 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5939 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5940
5941 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5942 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5943 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5944 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5945 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5946
5947 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5948 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5949 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5950 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5951 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5952 ever.
5953
5954 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5955 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5956 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5957 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5958 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5959 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5960 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5961 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5962 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5963 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5964 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5965 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5966 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5967 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5968
5969 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5970 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5971 parameterised it.
5972
5973 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5974 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5975 error should be diagnosed.
5976
5977 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5978 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5979 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5980 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5981 appeared instead of "NULL".
5982
598310. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5984 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5985 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5986 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5987 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5988 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5989 proceeds).
5990
5991 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5992 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5993 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5994
5995
5996Exim version 4.21
5997-----------------
5998
5999 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6000 or receiver verification errors.
6001
6002 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6003 name.
6004
6005 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6006 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6007 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6008 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6009
6010 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6011 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6012 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6013 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6014 shouldn't happen again.
6015
6016 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6017 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6018 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6019
6020 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6021 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6022
6023 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6024
6025 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6026 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6027
6028 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6029 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6030 RFC.
6031
603210. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6033 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6034 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6035
603611. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6037 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6038 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6039 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6040
604112. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6042 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6043 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6044 to define what should happen).
6045
604613. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6047 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6048 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6049
605014. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6051
605215. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6053
605416. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6055 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6056
605717. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
6058 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6059 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6060 structure in all cases.
6061
6062 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6063 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6064 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6065 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6066
606718. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6068 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6069 domain name.
6070
607119. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6072 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6073
607420. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6075 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6076
607721. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6078 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6079 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6080
608122. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6082 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6083 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6084
608523. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6086 the book and for uniformity.
6087
608824. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6089
609025. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6091 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6092 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6093 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6094 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6095 non-existent command as the problem.
6096
609726. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6098 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6099 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6100
610127. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6102
610328. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6104 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6105 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6106
610729. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6108 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6109 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6110 timestamps using strftime().
6111
611230. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6113 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6114
611532. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6116 transport-time rewrites.
6117
611833. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6119 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6120 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6121 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6122
612334. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6124 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6125
612635. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6127 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6128 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6129 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6130 comma and a space.
6131
613236. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6133 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6134 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6135 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6136 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6137 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6138 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6139
614037. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6141 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6142 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6143 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6144 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6145
614638. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6147 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6148 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6149 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6150 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6151 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6152 remaining text gets split now.
6153
615439. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6155 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6156 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6157 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6158
615940. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6160 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6161 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6162 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6163 $return_path.
6164
616541. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6166 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6167 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6168 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6169 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6170 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6171 passed through if needed.
6172
617342. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6174 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6175 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6176 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6177 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6178 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6179
618043. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6181 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6182 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6183 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6184 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6185
618644. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6187 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6188 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6189 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6190 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6191
619245. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6193 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6194 noticed.
6195
619646. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6197 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6198 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6199 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6200 mayhem of various kinds.
6201
620247. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6203 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6204 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6205 the right test for positive values.
6206
620748. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6208 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6209 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6210 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6211 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6212 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6213 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6214 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6215 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6216 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6217 envelope.
6218
621949. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6220 module.
6221
622250. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6223 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6224 forbidding it.
6225
622651. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6227 the existing equality matching.
6228
622952. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6230 dealing with inode numbers.
6231
623253. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6233 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6234 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6235
623654. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6237 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6238 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6239 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6240 local_scan().
6241
624255. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6243 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6244 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6245 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6246 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6247 relay addresses has also been removed.
6248
624956. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6250
625157. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6252 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6253 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6254
625558. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6256 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6257 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6258 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6259 processing applies to CR:
6260
6261 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6262 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6263
6264 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6265 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6266 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6267 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6268
626959. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6270 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6271 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6272
627360. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6274 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6275 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6276 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6277 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6278 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6279 arisen.
6280
628161. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6282 program routers.
6283
628462. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6285 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6286 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6287 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6288 adds:
6289
6290 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6291
6292 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6293
6294 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6295
629663. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6297 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6298 not considered personal.
6299
630064. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6301
630265. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6303
630466. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6305
630667. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6307 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6308 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6309 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6310 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6311 header lines, and spool format errors.
6312
631368. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6314 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6315 for more flexibility.
6316
631769. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6318 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6319 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6320
632170. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6322 Sabourenkov.
6323
632471. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6325 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6326 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6327 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6328 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6329 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6330 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6331 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6332 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6333
633472. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6335 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6336 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6337 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6338 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6339 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6340 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6341
634273. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6343 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6344 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6345
634674. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6347 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6348 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6349 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6350 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6351 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6352 instead of killing the process with assert().
6353
635475. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6355 than Unicode encoding.
6356
635776. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6358 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6359 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6360 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6361
636277. Added process_log_path.
6363
636478. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6365 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6366
636779. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6368 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6369
637080. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6371 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6372 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6373
637481. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6375 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6376 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6377 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6378 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6379 were applied:
6380
6381 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6382 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6383 as invalid.
6384
638582. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6386 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6387 they will be used during message reception.
6388
6389
6390Exim version 4.20
6391-----------------
6392
6393The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6394
6395****