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495ae4b0 1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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11JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
12 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
13
14JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
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15 non-signal-safe functions being used.
16
17JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
18 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
19 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
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21JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
22 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
23 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
24
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25JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
26 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
27 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
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28 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
29 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
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30 messed with.
31
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32PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
33 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
34
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35JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
36 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
37 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
38 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
39 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
40 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
41 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
42
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43JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
44 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
45
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c39c8870 50GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
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51 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
52 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
53 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
54 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
55 be defined in redis_servers.
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57GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
58 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
59
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60JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
61 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
62 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
63 extant use locations.
64
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65JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
66 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
67
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68JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
69 Previously only the last row was returned.
70
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71JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
72 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
73 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
74 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
75 input.
76
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77JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
78 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
79 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
80 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
81 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
82 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
83 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
84 Main pool for expansions.
85 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
86 active in the testsuite.
87 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
88
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89JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
90 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
91 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
92 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
93 round-robin DNS.
94
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95JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
96 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
97 failure response.
98
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99JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
100 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
101 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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102
103JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
104 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
105 ClamAV interface method is removed.
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107JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
108 rows affected is given instead).
109
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110JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
111 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
112
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113JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
114 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
115 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
116 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
117 for all multi-message initiating connections.
118
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119JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
120 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
121 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
122
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123JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
124 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
125 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
126 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
127 separate.
128
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129JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
130 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
131 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
132 fake-reject.
133
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134HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
135
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136JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
137 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
138
aab9a843 139PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 140 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 141 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 142
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143JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
144 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
145 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
146 and send a quit.
147
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148JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
149 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
150
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151JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
152 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
153 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
154
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155JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
156 for the build is renamed.
157
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158JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
159 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
160 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
161
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162JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
163 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
164 result replacing the original.
165
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166JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
167 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
168 and the resources needed to be freed.
169
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170JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
171
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172JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
173 was not propagated.
174
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175JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
176 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
177 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
178 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
179
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180JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
181 length value. Previously this would segfault.
182
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183HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
184 newer versions of the scanner.
185
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186JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
187 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
188 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
189 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
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190 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
191 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
192 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
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194JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
195 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
196 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
197 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
198 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
199 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
200 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
201 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
202 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
203 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
204
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205JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
206 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
207
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208JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
209
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210HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
211 allows proper process termination in container environments.
212
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213JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
214 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
215
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216JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
217 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
218 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
219
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220JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
221 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
222 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
5add7dc4 223 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
857eaf37 224
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225JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
226 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
227 would be spooled.
228
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229PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
230 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
231
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232HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
233 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
234 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
235 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
236 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
ad93c40f 237
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238JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
239 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
240 lines.
241
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242JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
243 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
244
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245PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
246 suffix list.
247
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248JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
249 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
250 "bare" representation.
251
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252JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
253 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
254 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
255 corrupted the output.
256
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261JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
262 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
263 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
264 pairs of long lines into single ones.
265
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266PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
267 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
268
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269JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
270 This permits better logging.
271
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272JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
273 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
274 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
275 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
276 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 277 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 278
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279JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
280 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
281 "exiwhat" output.
282
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283PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
284 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
285 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
286
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287JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
288 than 255 are no longer allowed.
289
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290JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
291 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
292 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
293 client, there is no benefit for these.
294 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
295 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
296 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
297 is used (3.2.4 +).
298
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299PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
300 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
301
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302JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
303 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
304 erroneously found still-pending ones.
305
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306JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
307 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
308
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309JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
310 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
311 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
312 signature and again for transmission.
313
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314JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
315 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 316 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
eeb35890 317
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318JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
319 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
320 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
321 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
322 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
323 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
324 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
325
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326JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
327 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
328 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 329 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
40525d07 330
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331PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
332 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
333 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
334 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
335 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
336 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
337 processing options.
338
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339JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
340 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
341 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
342 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
343 connections.
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345PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
346 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
347 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
348 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
349 versions.
350
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351JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
352 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
353 inaccessible.
354
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355JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
356 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
357 banner-time rejection.
358
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359JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
360 callout/hold.
361
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362PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
363 is the name of a transport.
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364 Fixes bug 2140.
365
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366HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
367
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368JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
369 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
370
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371JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
372 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
373 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
374 during compilation.
375
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376JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
377 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
378 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 379 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 380
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381JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
382 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
383 initial verify call returned a defer.
384
ad1a76fe 385JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
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386 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
387
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388JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
389 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
390
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391JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
392 if present. Previously it was ignored.
393
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394JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
395 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
396
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397JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
398 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
399 extensible.
400
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401PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
402 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
403
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404PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
405 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
406 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
407
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408JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
409 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
410 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
411 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
412
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413HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess where chunked
414 and confused the parent.
415
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416JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
417 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
418
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419JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
420 for log purposes.
421
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422JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
423 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
424 out-of-order delivery.
425
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426JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
427 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
428 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
429 error for the HELO.
430
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431JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
432 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
433 desynchronisation.
434
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435JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
436 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
437 one run was done. Bug 2189.
438
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439JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
440 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
441 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
442 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
443 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
444 message is still "Temporary local problem".
445
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446JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
447 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
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448 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
449
450HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
451 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
452 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
625667b6 453
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454JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
455 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
456 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
457 though a different problem.
458
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9427e879 463JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 464 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 465
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466JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
467
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468PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
469 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
470
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471JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
472 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
473
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474JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
475 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
476 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
477 before acknowledging the chunk.
478
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479PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
480 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
481 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
482
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483JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
484 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
485 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
486 should.
487
488JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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489 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
490 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
fd047340 491
bd8fbe36 492JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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493 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
494
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495JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
496 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
497 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
498 body hash calculated value.
499
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500JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
501 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
502 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
503
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504JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
505
506JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
507 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
508
509JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
510 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
511 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
512
513JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
514 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
515 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
516 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
517 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
518 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
519
520JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
521 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
522 past that check, despite the cost.
523
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524JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
525 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
526 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
527
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528PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
529 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
530 TLS library to consume.
531
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532PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
533
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534PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
535
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536JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
537 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
538 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
539 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
540 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
541 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
542 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
543
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544PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
545
546PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
547
548PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
549 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
550 should be warning-free.
551
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552JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
553
554HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
555 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
556
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557HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
558 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
559 general solution here.
560
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561PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
562 already-broken messages in the queue.
563
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564JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
565
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566JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
567
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572JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
573 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 574
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575JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
576 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
577 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
578
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579JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
580 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
581 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
582 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
583 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
584 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
585 if one fails this test.
586 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
587 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
588
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589JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
590 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
591
23bb6982 592JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 593 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 594
0bd1b1ed 595JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 596 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 597
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598JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
599 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
600
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601JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
602 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
603
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604JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
605
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606JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
607 certificate).
608
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609JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
610 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
611 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
612 connection after a verify cache hit.
613 Do not update it with the verify result either.
614
615JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
616 when routing results in more than one destination address.
617
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618JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
619 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
620 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
621 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
622 when the cutthrough connection is made).
623
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624JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
625 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
626
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627JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
628 Previously they were not counted.
629
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630JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
631 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
632 that needed the lookup.
633
4c04137d 634JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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635 distinguished as "(=".
636
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637JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
638 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
639
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640JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
641
642JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
643 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 644
4c04137d 645JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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646 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
647
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648JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
649 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
650 compatible.
651
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652JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
653 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
654 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
655 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
656
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657JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
658
f59aaaaa 659JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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660 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
661 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
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663JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
664 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
665 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
666 be lost.
667
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668JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
669 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
670 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
671 itself :(
672
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673JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
674 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
675 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
676
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677JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
678 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
679 options.
680
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681JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
682
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683PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
684 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
685
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686PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
687 are not in the system include path.
688
ad7fc6eb 689JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 690 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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691 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
692 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
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694JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
695 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
696 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
697
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698JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
699
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700HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
701 an incoming connection.
702
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703HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
704 to rspamd.
705
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706HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
707 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 708
87cb4a16 709JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 710 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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711
712
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716JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
717 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
718 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
719 client dropping the TLS connection.
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721TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
722 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
723
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724TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
725 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
726 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
727 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
728 outgoing I= field.
729
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730JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
731 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
732 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
733 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
734 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
735 check on the next write.
736
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737HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
738 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
739 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
740 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
741 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
742
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743JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
744 mime_regex ACL conditions.
745
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746JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
747 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
748 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
749
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750JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
751 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
752 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
753 an authenticate fail is not an error.
754
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755HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
756 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
757
4c04137d 758JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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759 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
760
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761JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
762 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
763 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
764 distinct.
765
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766JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
767
768JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
769
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770JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
771
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772JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
773 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
774
98b98887 775JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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776 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
777
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778JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
779
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780JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
781 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
782
783JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
784
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785JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
786 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
787
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788JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
789
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790JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
791 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 792 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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793 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
794 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
795 they will retry in-clear.
796 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
797 at installation time.
798
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799HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
800 with the $config_file variable.
801
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802JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
803 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
804 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
805 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 806 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
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808GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
809 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
810 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
811 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
812 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
813
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814JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
815
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816JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
817 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
818 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
819 list order is no longer honoured.
820
4c04137d 821JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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822 for DKIM processing.
823
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824JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
825 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
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827JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
828 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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829 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
830 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 831
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832JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
833 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
834
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835JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
836 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
837
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838JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
839 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
840
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841JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
842
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843JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
844 cached by the daemon.
845
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846JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
847 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
848
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849JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
850 keys are given for lookup.
851
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852JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
853 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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854 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
855 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
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857JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
858 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
859 server-side so match that on older versions.
860
07c73177 861JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 862 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 863 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 864
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865JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
866 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
867
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868JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
869 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
870 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 871 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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872 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
873 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
874 initial truncated version.
875
ab9152ff 876JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 877
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878JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
879
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880JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
881 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
882
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883JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
884
bc3c7bb7 885HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 886
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887JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
888 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
889 induced overflows.
890
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891JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
892 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
893 stage.
894
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895JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
896 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
897
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898JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
899 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
900 former class.
901
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902JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
903 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
904 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
905
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906JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
907 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
908 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
909 extraction. Accept either.
910
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915JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
916 expanded.
917
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918JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
919
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920JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
921 it.
922
01a4a5c5 923JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 924 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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925 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
926 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
927
cb1d7830 928JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 929 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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930 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
931
610ff438 932JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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933 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
934 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
935 TLS connections
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937JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
938 sites use this now.
939
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940JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
941 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
942 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
943 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
944 have a dsn_lasthop option.
945
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946JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
947 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 948 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 949
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950JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
951
aeaf5db3
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952JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
953 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
954
5032d1cf
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955JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
956 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
957
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958JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
959 /defer_ok option.
960
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961JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
962 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
963
fd4d8871 964JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 965 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
fd4d8871
R
966 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
967
968JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
2aad5761
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969 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
970 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 971
23763898
JH
972JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
973 timeout value per server.
974
2ad78978
JH
975JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
976 now have the list separator specified.
977
8a512ed5 978JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 979 option values.
8a512ed5 980
82c0c8ea 981JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
f69979cf
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982 under OpenSSL.
983
cc00f4af
JH
984JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
985
82c0c8ea
JH
986JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
987 rather than the verbs used.
988
b980ed83
JH
989JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
990 from 255 to 1024 chars.
991
6c9ed72e
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992JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
993
cfab9d68 994HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 995 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 996
f846c8f5
JH
997JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
998 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
999
fd4c285c
HSHR
1000HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1001 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1002
4c04137d 1003JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 1004
d2a2c69b
JH
1005JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1006
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1007JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1008 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 1009 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
8241d8dd
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1010 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1011
1f12df4d
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1012JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1013
1f155f8e
JH
1014JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1015 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1016
1705dd20
JH
1017JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1018 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1019
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1020JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1021
474f71bf
JH
1022JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1023
7137ca4b
JH
1024JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1025
dcb1095c
JH
1026JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1027 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1028
2f460950
JH
1029JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1030 added for tls authenticator.
1031
2f680c0c
HSHR
1032HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1033
9c695f6d 1034
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1035Exim version 4.85
1036-----------------
4c57a40e 1037
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1038TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1039 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1040 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1041 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1042 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1043 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1044 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1045
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1046TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1047 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1048 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1049 function when detected.
1050
a9b8ec8b
JH
1051JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1052 cause callback expansion.
1053
6286d7c4
TL
1054TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1055 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1056 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1057 instead of bool when processing it.
1058
0f06b4f2 1059JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
d567a64d
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1060 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1061
be36e572
JH
1062JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1063
ac4ef9bd
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1064JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1065
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TL
1066TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1067
c713ca4b
TL
1068TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1069 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
e449c3b0 1070
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1071JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1072 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1073 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1074 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 1075 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
bd21a787
WB
1076 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1077
8bc732e8
JH
1078JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1079 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1080 exceeded it.
1081
a7fec7a7
JH
1082JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1083 version 3.3.6 or later.
1084
4c04137d 1085JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
774ef2d7
JH
1086 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1087 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 1088 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
723fe533
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1089 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1090 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1091 option is defined.
774ef2d7 1092
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TL
1093TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1094 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1095
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1096JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1097 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1098 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1099 matches.
1100
e9477a08
JH
1101JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1102 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1103 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1104
ad4c5ff9
JH
1105JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1106 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
8dea5edf
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1107
1108JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1109 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1110 syntax errors.
1111
3394b36a 1112JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
8dea5edf
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1113
1114JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1115 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1116
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1117TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1118 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1119 tarball.
1120
ad4c5ff9
JH
1121JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1122
4c04137d 1123JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
ad4c5ff9
JH
1124 Bug 1561.
1125
1126JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1127 output list separator was used.
1128
8bc732e8 1129
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1132TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1133 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1134 return.
1f0ebb98 1135
a612424f 1136JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 1137 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
a612424f
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1138
1139JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1140
1141TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 1142 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 1143
1f0ebb98 1144
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1146-----------------
1147
1148TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1149
1150 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1151 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1152 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1153 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1154 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1155 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1156
7245734e
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1157TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1158 utilities have not been installed.
1159
fd5dad68
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1160JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1161 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1162
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1163TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1164 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1165
a3c86431
TL
1166TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1167 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
8ded8589
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1168 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1169 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 1170
aa26e137
JH
1171JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1172
5a1b8443
WB
1173TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1174 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1175
72c9e342
PP
1176PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1177 not dns_use_dnssec.
1178
76f44207
WB
1179JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1180
770747fd
MFM
1181TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1182 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1183 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1184
8ddef691 1185TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
982650ec
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1186 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1187 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1188 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1189 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1190 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1191
b9c2e32f
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1192JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1193
e45a1c37
JH
1194JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1195 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1196
67d81c10
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1197JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1198 failed delivery.
1199
b1f8e4f8
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1200JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1201
511a6c14 1202JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
JH
1203
1204JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1205 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1206
51c7471d
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1207JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1208 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1209
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1210TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1211
1e06383a
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1212JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1213
76146973
JH
1214JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1215 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1216
1217 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1218 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1219 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1220
8c8b8274
TL
1221TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1222 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1223 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1224 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1225
35aba663
JH
1226JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1227
8c51eead 1228JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
578897ea
JH
1229 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1230 lookup).
8c51eead 1231
deae092e
HS
1232TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1233 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1234 Schlichting.
35aba663 1235
fd3b6a4a 1236JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1237 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1238
8d91c6dc
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1239TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1240 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1241
2b4a568d
JH
1242JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1243
d2af03f4
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1244TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1245 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1246 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1247
9d1c15ef
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1248JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1249 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1250
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1251JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1252 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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1253 hosts_request_ocsp.
1254
ed3bba5f 1255JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1256 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1257 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1258
8ccd00b1
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1259JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1260
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1261TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1262 Christian Aistleitner.
1263
f2de3a33
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1264JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1265
6eb02f88
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1266TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1267 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1268
00bff6f6
JH
1269JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1270 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1271
071c51f7
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1272JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1273 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1274
a6d4c44e
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1275TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1276 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1277
3ae173e7
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1278TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1279 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1280
c13d09b8
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1281TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1282 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1283 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1284
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1285JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1286
66be95e0
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1287PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1288 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1289 Jasper Wallace.
1290
1bd0d12b
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1291JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1292
0de7239e
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1293TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1294 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1295 CVE-2014-2972
1296
fd3b6a4a 1297
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1300
1301PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1302
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1303PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1304 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1305
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1306PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1307 by GnuTLS.
1308
1f4a55da
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1309PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1310 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1311 routines.
1312
13363eba 1313PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1314
66645890 1315PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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1316 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1317 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1318 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1319 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1320
a3fb9793 1321PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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1322 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1323 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1324 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1325 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1326 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1327
d27f98fe 1328TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1329
6822b909
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1330TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1331
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1332TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1333 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1334
ae0e32ee 1335TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1336 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1337 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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1338
1339TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1340
e2658fff
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1341TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1342
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1343TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1344 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1345
976b7e9f
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1346JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1347
be4a1376
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1348JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1349
ec4b68e5
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1350PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1351
d7148a07
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1352NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1353 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1354
585121e2 1355JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1356
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1357PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1358 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1359 function.
a5f239e4 1360
13d08c90
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1361PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1362 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1363
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1364JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1365 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1366 "acl = name arg..."
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1368JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1369
3a796370
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1370JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1371
ea722490 1372JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
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1373 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1374
b1b05573
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1375JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1376 Bugzilla 884.
1377
362145b5
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1378JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1379 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1380
3c0a92dc
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1381JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1382 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1383
6d7c6175
PP
1384PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1385 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1386 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1387
6f123593
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1388JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1389 authenticators.
1390
c8e2fc1e
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1391JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1392 for control.
1393
005ac57f
PP
1394PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1395
3f1df0e3
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1396PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1397 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1398 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1399 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1400
67bd1ab3
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1401TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1402
1403 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1404 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1405 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1406 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1407 the retry rules.
1408
1409 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1410 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1411 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1412
1413 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1414 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1415 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1416 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1417
1ddeb334
TF
1418 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1419 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1420 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1421 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1422 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1423 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1424 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1425
1426 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1427 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1428
326cdc37
TF
1429TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1430
1431 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1432
1433 Resent-From: f
1434
1435 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1436 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1437 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1438 username as equal to the username.
1439
1440 This change corrects that bug.
1441
f62514b3
GF
1442GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1443 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1444 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1445
eb505532
TF
1446TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1447
14c7b357
PP
1448PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1449 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1450 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1451 NULL dereference and crash.
1452
94eaf700
PP
1453JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1454
6f5a440a
PP
1455PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1456 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1457 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1458
514ee161
SC
1459SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1460
fd98a5c6
JH
1461JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1462 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1463 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1464 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1465 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1466 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1467 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1468 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1469 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1470 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1471 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1472
035c7f1e
PP
1473PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1474 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1475
ff284120
PP
1476PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1477 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1478 Bugzilla 880.
1479
26e72755
PP
1480PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1481 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1482 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1483 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1484 an empty string is now equivalent.
1485
0fbd9bff
PP
1486PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1487 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1488 not performing validation itself.
1489
700d22f3
PP
1490PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1491 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1492
fcc8e047
JH
1493JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1494 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1495
4c04137d 1496TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1497
8c020188
PP
1498PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1499 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1500 other false fix of the same issue.
1501 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1502 Bugzilla 1363.
1503
d13cdd30
PP
1504PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1505 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1506
e2fbf4a2
PP
1507PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1508 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1509 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1510
f4c1088b
PP
1511PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1512 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1513 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1514
c5c2182f
PP
1515TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1516
73431ca9
JH
1517JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1518
2d07a215
TL
1519TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1520 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1521
a30a8861
TL
1522TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1523 Alexander Miroch.
1524
33382dd9
TL
1525TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1526 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1527 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1528 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1529 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1530
046172e6
TL
1531TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1532 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1533
581d7bee 1534TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1535 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1536 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1537
1538TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1539 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1540 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1541 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1542
237b2cf2
TL
1543TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1544
9fc5a352
TL
1545TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1546 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1547 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1548
b10e4ec2
TL
1549TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1550
e2cebd74
TL
1551TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1552 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1553 interaction.
1554
1555TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1556 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1557
2519e60d
TL
1558TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1559 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1560
e78e6ecf 1561
4263f395
PP
1562Exim version 4.80.1
1563-------------------
1564
1565PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1566 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1567 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1568
ea722490 1569
b1770b6e 1570Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1571-----------------
1572
1573PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1574 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1575 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1576
23c7e742
NM
1577NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1578
b322aac8
NM
1579NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1580 improved.
1581
4a891427
NM
1582NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1583
c1e794ba 1584PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1585
97753960
PP
1586PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1587
1588PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1589 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1590
df6303fa
PP
1591PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1592 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1593
7e6a8985
PP
1594PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1595 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1596
f1e05cc7 1597PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1598 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1599 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1600
4c287009
PP
1601PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1602
b98bb9ac
PP
1603PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1604 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1605
4a6a987a
PP
1606PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1607
c45dd180 1608PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1609
7db8d074
PP
1610PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1611 non-compliant senders.
1612 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1613
eae0036b 1614NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1615 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1616 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1617
dec5017e
PP
1618PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1619 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1620 in spool file corruption.
1621
c80c5570
PP
1622PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1623 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1624 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1625 "Got SSL error 2".
1626
076b11e2
PP
1627TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1628 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1629 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1630
5407bfff
JH
1631JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1632 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1633
9e45c72b
PP
1634JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1635
e74376d8
PP
1636PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1637 diagnostics.
1638 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1639
4c04137d 1640PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1641 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1642 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1643
7be682ca
PP
1644PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1645 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1646 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1647 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1648
ef840681
PP
1649PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1650 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1651
5bfb4cdf
PP
1652PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1653 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1654 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1655 resolver implementation change.
1656
c6e95d22
PP
1657PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1658 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1659
9cbad13b
PP
1660PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1661
9ee44efb
PP
1662PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1663
6a6084f8
PP
1664PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1665 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1666
12dd53c7
PP
1667PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1668 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1669
9e45c72b 1670JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1671 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1672
17c76198
PP
1673PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1674 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1675 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1676 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1677 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1678
53947857 1679PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1680
eae0036b 1681PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1682 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1683 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1684
9e45c72b 1685JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1686
7390e768
PP
1687PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1688 read-only, out of scope).
1689 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1690
08488c86
PP
1691PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1692 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1693 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1694 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1695
6475bd82
PP
1696PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1697
81f91683
PP
1698PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1699 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1700 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1701 real issues in debug logging.
1702
5779e6aa
PP
1703PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1704 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1705
3375e053
PP
1706PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1707 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1708 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1709
1710PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1711 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1712 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1713 problems.
3375e053 1714
9d26b8c0
PP
1715PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1716 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1717
57eb9e91 1718PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1719 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1720 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1721 needs to override this, it can.
1722
16880d1a
PP
1723PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1724 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1725 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1726
a799883d
PP
1727PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1728 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1729 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1730 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1731
3ecab157 1732PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1733
0599f9cf 1734
867fcbf5
PP
1735Exim version 4.77
1736-----------------
1737
1738PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1739 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1740
f1a29782
TF
1741TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1742
ab42bd23
TK
1743TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1744 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1745
0ca0cf52
TF
1746TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1747 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1748
921b12ca
TF
1749TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1750 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1751 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1752
1753 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1754 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1755 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1756 not safe for signals.
1757
1758 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1759 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1760 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1761 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1762 exiwhat.
1763
c99ce5c9
TF
1764TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1765
1766 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1767 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1768 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1769 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1770 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1771
1772 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1773 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1774 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1775 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1776 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1777 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1778
1779 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1780 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1781 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1782 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1783
1784 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1785 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1786 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1787 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1788
1789 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1790 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1791 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1792 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1793 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1794 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1795 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1796 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1797 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1798
1799 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1800 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1801 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1802 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1803
1804 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1805 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1806 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1807 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1808 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1809 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1810 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1811 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1812 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1813 details in the main documentation.
1814
3634fc25
TF
1815TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1816
792e8a19
TF
1817TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1818
5901f0ab
TF
1819TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1820 repository when doing development or release builds.
1821
7f2a2a43
PP
1822PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1823 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1824
061b7ebd
PP
1825PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1826 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1827 Bugzilla 97.
1828
e12f8c32
PP
1829PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1830
9e949f00 1831PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1832 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1833
1834PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1835 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1836
555ae6af 1837PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1838 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1839
1840PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1841 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1842
6f7fe114
PP
1843PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1844 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1845
c566dd90
PP
1846PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1847 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1848 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1849 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1850
d6cc7c78 1851PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1852 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1853 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1854
0d0e4455
PP
1855PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1856
3399bb60 1857PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1858
1859PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1860 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1861
0ca0cf52 1862
10906672
PP
1863Exim version 4.76
1864-----------------
1865
1866PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1867
754a0503
PP
1868PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1869 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1870
c0c7b2da
PP
1871PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1872
e97d1f08
PP
1873PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1874
084c1d8c
PP
1875PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1876 Bugzilla 1098.
1877
4e7ee012
PP
1878PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1879 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1880
c8d52a00
PP
1881TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1882 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1883
54e7ce4a
PP
1884PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1885 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1886
5ee6f336
PP
1887PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1888 Bugzilla 1104.
1889
c8d52a00 1890TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1891 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1892
1893TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1894 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1895 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1896 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1897
1898PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1899 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1900
10906672 1901
aa097c4c
NM
1902Exim version 4.75
1903-----------------
1904
4c04137d 1905NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1906 Bugzilla 1073
1907
7f3d9eff
TF
1908TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1909 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1910 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1911
159f52d2
TF
1912TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1913 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1914
0cc9542a
PP
1915PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1916 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1917 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1918
f7274286
PP
1919PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1920 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1921
7b797365
PP
1922PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1923 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1924
caacae52
NM
1925NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1926 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1927
09dcaba9
NM
1928NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1929 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1930
bc19a55b
PP
1931PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1932 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1933
bd4c9759
NM
1934NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1935 Fixes bug 943.
1936
b72aab72
PP
1937PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1938 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1939
2fe76745
PP
1940PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1941 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1942
76aa570c
PP
1943PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1944 SQL string expansion failure details.
1945 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1946
f1e5fef5
PP
1947PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1948 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1949
4d805ee9
PP
1950PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1951 extern declarations in function scope.
1952 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1953
cd59ab18
PP
1954PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1955 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1956 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1957 a kernel bug).
1958
332f5cf3
PP
1959PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1960 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1961
29cfeb94
PP
1962PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1963 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1964
660242ad
PP
1965PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1966 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1967
bc4bc4c5
PP
1968PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1969 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1970
2e64baa9
NM
1971NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1972 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1973 Dennis Davis.
1974
4c04137d 1975PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 1976
6bac1a9a
PP
1977PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1978
552193f0
NM
1979NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1980 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1981
1b587e48
TF
1982TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1983 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1984
aa097c4c 1985
8c07b69f
TF
1986Exim version 4.74
1987-----------------
1988
1989TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1990 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1991
c0ea85ab
TF
1992TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1993 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1994
0761d44e
TF
1995TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1996
0a349494
PP
1997DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1998 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1999 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2000
2001PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2002 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2003 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2004
fea24b2e
PP
2005PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2006 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2007 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2008 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2009
6545de78
PP
2010PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2011 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2012 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2013 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2014
1670ef10
PP
2015PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2016 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2017 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2018 arbitrary files.
2019
c0886197
PP
2020PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2021 (Wolfgang Breyha)
2022
b7487bce
PP
2023PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2024 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2025 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2026 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2027 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2028
8c07b69f 2029
97fd1e48 2030Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 2031-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
2032
2033PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2034 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2035 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2036
6901c596
PP
2037PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2038 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2039
a8c8d6b5
JJ
2040JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2041
77bb000f
PP
2042PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2043
a29e5231
PP
2044PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2045
ec5a0394 2046PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 2047
55c75993
PP
2048PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2049
453a6645 2050PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
2051 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2052 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
2053 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2054
8544e77a
PP
2055PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2056 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2057 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
2058 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2059 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 2060
83e029d5
PP
2061PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2062
ed7f7860
PP
2063PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2064
7d9f747b
PP
2065PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2066
4b2241d2
PP
2067PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2068
10385c15
PP
2069PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2070
dbc4b90d
PP
2071PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2072
532be449
PP
2073PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2074
6a8de854 2075PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
2076 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2077 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 2078
5dc43717
JJ
2079JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2080
2081JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2082 "exim" to be used
55c75993 2083
3346ab01
PP
2084PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2085 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2086
491fab4c
PP
2087PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2088 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2089 Notification from John Horne.
2090
13eb9497
PP
2091PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2092 compatible.
2093
2094PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2095 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2096 it normally works.
2097
7f36d675
DW
2098DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2099 access.
2100
c1d94452
DW
2101DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2102 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2103 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2104
e2f5dc15
DW
2105DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2106 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2107 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2108 configuration file.
2109
cd25e41d
DW
2110DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2111 option (effectively making it always true).
2112
261dc43e
DW
2113DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2114 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2115
fa32850b
DW
2116DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2117 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2118
79d4bc3d
PP
2119PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2120 run-time user, instead of root.
2121
43236f35 2122PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
2123 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2124
fb08281f
DW
2125DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2126 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2127 arguments.
3346ab01 2128
74935b98
DW
2129DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2130 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2131 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2132
90b6341f
DW
2133DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2134
57730b52
ML
2135NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2136
66581d1e 2137
465e92cf
JJ
2138Exim version 4.72
2139-----------------
2140
453a6645
PP
2141JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2142 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2143 typos
465e92cf 2144
453a6645
PP
2145JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2146 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2147 (Finput)
edae0343 2148
9bd3e22c
NM
2149NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2150 Patch from Alain Williams
2151
bb576ff7
NM
2152NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2153
5a1a5845
NM
2154NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2155 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2156
981a9fad
NM
2157NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2158 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2159
7fc497ee
NM
2160NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2161
1a41defa
JJ
2162JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2163
a466095c 2164NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2165 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2166
94a6bd0b
NM
2167TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2168
2169TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2170
2171MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2172 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2173 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2174
c1b141a8
NM
2175NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2176 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2177
b26eacf1 2178NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2179 Patch by Simon Arlott
2180
179c5980 2181PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2182 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2183
9bd3e22c 2184
7c6d71af
NM
2185Exim version 4.71
2186-----------------
2187
7d9f747b 2188TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2189
f013fb92
NM
2190NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2191
0eb8eedd
NM
2192NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2193
663ee6d9
NM
2194NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2195
177ebd9b
NM
2196NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2197
7c6d71af 2198
210f147e
NM
2199Exim version 4.70
2200-----------------
2201
cdd3bb85 2202TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2203 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2204
2205TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2206 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2207 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2208
2209TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2210 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2211 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2212
2213TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2214 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2215
210f147e
NM
2216NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2217 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2218 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2219 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2220
deafd5b3
NM
2221NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2222 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2223 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2224
089793a4
TF
2225TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2226
5f16ca82
TF
2227TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2228
dae9d94e 2229NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2230 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2231
7d9f747b 2232NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2233
06864c44
TF
2234TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2235 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2236 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2237 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2238
65a7d8c3 2239NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2240 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2241
23510047 2242TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2243
7d9f747b 2244NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2245
7d8eec3a 2246NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2247 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2248
89dec7b6
TF
2249TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2250 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2251
a99de90c
TF
2252TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2253 that they are available at delivery time.
2254
e2803e40
TF
2255TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2256
7199e1ee
TF
2257TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2258 incoming_port log selectors.
2259
e276e04b
TF
2260TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2261 setting expands to an empty string.
2262
ce552449 2263NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2264 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2265
e765a0f1 2266NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2267 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2268
4f054c63 2269NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2270 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2271
7d9f747b
PP
2272NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2273 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2274
7d9f747b
PP
2275NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2276 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2277
b52bc06e 2278NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2279 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2280
447de4b0
NM
2281NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2282
4c69d561 2283NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2284 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2285
d5c39246 2286NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2287 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2288
0b23848a
TK
2289TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2290
8f3414a1 2291NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2292 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2293
fb6f955d
NM
2294NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2295
2296NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2297
7d9f747b
PP
2298NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2299 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2300
7d9f747b
PP
2301NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2302 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2303
7d9f747b
PP
2304NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2305 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2306
7d9f747b
PP
2307NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2308 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2309
7d9f747b
PP
2310NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2311 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2312
7d9f747b
PP
2313NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2314 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2315
7d9f747b
PP
2316NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2317 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2318
7d9f747b 2319NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2320 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2321
7d9f747b 2322NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2323
7d9f747b
PP
2324NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2325 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2326
7d9f747b 2327NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2328
7d9f747b 2329NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2330
7d9f747b 2331NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2332
7d9f747b 2333NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2334
17792b53 2335NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2336 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2337
7d9f747b
PP
2338NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2339 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2340
91576cec 2341NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2342 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2343
7d9f747b
PP
2344NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2345 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2346
7d9f747b 2347NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2348
7d9f747b 2349NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2350
7d9f747b 2351NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2352
7d9f747b 2353NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2354
deafd5b3 2355
47db1125
NM
2356Exim version 4.69
2357-----------------
2358
4b3504d0
TK
2359TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2360 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2361 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2362
2363 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2364 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2365 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2366 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2367 build errors in sieve.c.
2368
81ea09ca
NM
2369NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2370 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2371 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2372
f13cddcb
SC
2373SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2374
7d9f747b 2375NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2376
7d9f747b 2377NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2378
7d9f747b 2379NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2380
2381
eb4c0de6
PH
2382Exim version 4.68
2383-----------------
2384
2385PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2386
6a3bceb1
PH
2387PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2388 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2389 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2390 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2391 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2392 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2393 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2394 for iplsearch lookups.
2395
2396 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2397 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2398 previously such lookups could never work.
2399
4c04137d 2400 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2401 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2402 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2403
2e30fa9d
TK
2404TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2405 version.
2406
0806a9c5
MH
2407MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2408 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2409 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2410 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2411 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2412 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2413
ae276964
TK
2414TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2415 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2416
0f2cbd1b
MH
2417MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2418 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2419 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2420 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2421 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2422 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2423
2b85bce7
PH
2424PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2425 local_scan API.
2426
93655c46
PH
2427PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2428
6c512171
PH
2429PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2430 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2431 encrypted.
2432
2433PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2434 by clients under certain conditions.
2435
aa6dc513
PH
2436PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2437 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2438
a96603a0
PH
2439PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2440
8f240103
PH
2441PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2442 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2443
2444PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2445
d677b2f2
PH
2446PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2447
d52120f2
PH
2448PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2449
64f2600a
PH
2450PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2451 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2452
8669f003
PH
2453PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2454
a4dc33a8
PH
2455PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2456 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2457
d6a60c0f
PH
2458PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2459
8f128379
PH
2460PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2461
8932dffe
PH
2462PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2463 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2464 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2465 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2466
ddea74fa 2467PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2468 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2469 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2470
ddea74fa 2471PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2472 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2473
ddea74fa
PH
2474PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2475
ce9f225c
PH
2476PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2477
19897d52
PH
2478PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2479
bc64a74d
PH
2480PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2481 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2482 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2483
eb4c0de6 2484
b4ed4da0
PH
2485Exim version 4.67
2486-----------------
2487
22ad45c9
MH
2488MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2489 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2490 Jan Srzednicki.
2491
b4ed4da0
PH
2492PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2493 issue a MAIL command.
2494
431b7361
PH
2495PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2496
2497 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2498
2499 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2500 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2501 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2502 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2503 item. This has been fixed.
2504
2505PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2506 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2507
83da1223
PH
2508PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2509 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2510
54fc8428
PH
2511PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2512 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2513 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2514
34c5e8dd
SC
2515SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2516
bbe15da8
PH
2517PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2518 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2519 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2520 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2521 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2522
0e8a9471
MH
2523MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2524 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2525 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2526
f0872424
PH
2527PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2528 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2529 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2530 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2531
b01dd148
PH
2532PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2533
6bf342e1
PH
2534PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2535
273f34d0
PH
2536PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2537 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2538 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2539 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2540 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2541
cf8b11a5
PH
2542PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2543
41c7c167
PH
2544PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2545 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2546 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2547 values).
2548
9c57cbc0
PH
2549PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2550
f3f065bb
PH
2551PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2552
047bdd8c
PH
2553PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2554
0ce9abe6
PH
2555PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2556
0e22dfd1
PH
2557PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2558
4c590bd1
PH
2559PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2560 no_callout_flush is set.
2561
09945f1e
PH
2562PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2563 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2564 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2565 fixed.
2566
c51b8e75
PH
2567PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2568
e28326d8 2569PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2570 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2571 other ACL rejections are.
2572
75b1493f
PH
2573PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2574 with slight modification.
2575
7c5214ec
PH
2576PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2577 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2578
4311097e
PH
2579PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2580 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2581 connection.
2582
29f89cad
PH
2583PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2584 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2585
5e687460
SC
2586SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2587
c3611384
PH
2588PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2589 expansion side effects.
2590
5a11a7b4
PH
2591PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2592 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2593 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2594 be the same.
2595
0e20aff9
MH
2596MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2597 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2598 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2599
ca86f471
PH
2600PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2601 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2602 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2603 were accidentally chopped off.
2604
a14e5636
PH
2605PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2606 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2607 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2608 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2609 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2610 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2611 pipelining has not been advertised.
2612
ec95d1a6
PH
2613PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2614
42855d71
PH
2615PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2616 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2617 This has been fixed.
2618
57c2c631
PH
2619PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2620 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2621 reported on Solaris.
2622
58c01c94
PH
2623PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2624 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2625 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2626 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2627 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2628 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2629 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2630
dee5a20a
PH
2631PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2632 cpus.
2633
d2ee6114
PH
2634PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2635
b2d5182b
PH
2636PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2637
79749a79
PH
2638PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2639 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2640 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2641 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2642 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2643 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2644
c456d9bb
PH
2645PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2646 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2647 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2648 host_all_ignored option.
2649
cd9868ec
PH
2650PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2651 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2652 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2653 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2654 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2655 is what is supposed to happen).
2656
ebeaf996
PH
2657PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2658 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2659 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2660 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2661 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2662 uses the Exim user.
2663
2679d413
PH
2664PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2665 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2666 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2667 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2668 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2669 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2670 users.
2671
84024b72
PH
2672PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2673
8005d38e
SC
2674SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2675 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2676 (Jez Hancock).
2677 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2678 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2679
3298c6c6
SC
2680SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2681
a43a27c5
PH
2682PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2683
58eb016e 2684PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2685 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2686 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2687 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2688 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2689 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2690 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2691 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2692 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2693 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2694 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2695
b43a74ea
PH
2696PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2697 advertised in response to EHLO.
2698
b4ed4da0 2699
5dd1517f
PH
2700Exim version 4.66
2701-----------------
2702
2703PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2704 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2705
2706 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2707 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2708
2709 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2710 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2711 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2712
2713 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2714 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2715 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2716 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2717 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2718
2719
93cfa765
TK
2720Exim version 4.65
2721-----------------
2722
2723TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2724 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2725 versions. (#438)
2726
d6066548
MH
2727MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2728 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2729 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2730
4362ff0d
PH
2731PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2732 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2733 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2734 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2735 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2736 rather than extend the field.
2737
93cfa765 2738
944e9e9c
TF
2739Exim version 4.64
2740-----------------
aa41d2de 2741
21d74bd9
TK
2742TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2743 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2744 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2745 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2746 these files.
2747
2748TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2749 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2750 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2751
2752TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2753 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2754 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2755
2756TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2757 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2758 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2759 in the field name.
2760
2b1c6e3a
PH
2761PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2762 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2763 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2764 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2765 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2766 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2767 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2768 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2769 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2770 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2771 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2772
1f872c80
PH
2773PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2774 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2775
2776PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2777 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2778 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2779 ignores EPIPE as well.
2780
d203e649
PH
2781PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2782 (quoted-printable decoding).
2783
cc2ed8f7 2784PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2785 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2786
ddfcd446
PH
2787PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2788
d45b1de8
PH
2789PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2790
2791PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2792
38a0a95f 2793PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2794 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2795
a2405d83
JJ
2796JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2797 in 4.64-PH/09.
2798
2799JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2800 miscellaneous code fixes
2801
6ea85e9a
PH
2802PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2803 rejections.
2804
26da7e20
PH
2805PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2806 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2807 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2808 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2809 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2810 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2811 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2812 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2813
14aa5a05 2814PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2815 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2816 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2817 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2818 function.
2819 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2820 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2821 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2822 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2823 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2824 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2825 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2826 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2827 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2828
ff75a1f7
PH
2829PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2830 decoding.
2831
e6f6568e
PH
2832PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2833 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2834 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2835 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2836 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2837 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2838 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2839 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2840
d6f6e0dc
PH
2841PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2842 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2843 list.
2844
322050c2
PH
2845PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2846 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2847 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2848 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2849 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2850 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2851 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2852 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2853 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2854 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2855 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2856 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2857 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2858
08955dd3
PH
2859PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2860 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2861 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2862 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2863 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2864 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2865 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2866
1eccaa59
PH
2867PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2868 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2869 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2870 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2871 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2872 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2873 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2874 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2875 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2876 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2877
602e59e5
PH
2878PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2879 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2880 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2881 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2882 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2883
411ef850
PH
2884PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2885 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2886 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2887 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2888 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2889 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2890 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2891
7befa435
PH
2892PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2893 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2894 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2895 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2896 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2897 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2898 been verified.
2899
48da4259 2900PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2901 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2902 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2903 and authorization.)
2904
48da4259
PH
2905PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2906 if any retry times were supplied.
2907
d1d5595c
PH
2908PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2909 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2910 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2911
0ef732d9
PH
2912PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2913
328895cc
PH
2914PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2915
fd700877
PH
2916PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2917 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2918 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2919 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2920 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2921 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2922
8dce1a6f
PH
2923PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2924 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2925
17af4a17
PH
2926PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2927 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2928 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2929
2930PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2931 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2932 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2933 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2934 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2935 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2936 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2937 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2938 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2939
2940 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2941 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2942 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2943 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2944 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2945 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2946 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2947 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2948 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2949
2950 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2951 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2952 hammering the server.
2953
c1114884
PH
2954PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2955 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2956
7a0743eb
PH
2957PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2958
0d85fa3f
PH
2959PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2960 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2961 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2962
1bf43b78
PH
2963PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2964 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2965 one case where this was not true.
2966
520de300
PH
2967PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2968 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2969 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2970 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2971 fails.
2972
48c7f9e2
PH
2973PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2974 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2975 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2976 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 2977 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
2978 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2979 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2980 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2981 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2982 smtp transport.
2983
99ea1c86
PH
2984PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2985 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2986 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2987 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2988
a2042e78
PH
2989PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2990 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2991
4fbcfc2e
PH
2992PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2993 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2994 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2995
aa41d2de
PH
2996PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2997
af561417
PH
2998PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2999
3cc66b45
PH
3000PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3001
194cc0e4
PH
3002PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3003 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3004 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3005 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3006
a401ddaa
PH
3007PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3008 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3009
4e88a19f
PH
3010PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3011 be meaningful with "accept".
3012
d7d7b289
SC
3013SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3014 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3015
3016SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3017 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3018 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3019
3020SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3021 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3022 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3023 there is data to show.
3024 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3025
3026SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3027 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3028 as well as the number of messages.
3029
3030SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3031 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3032 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3033
3034SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3035 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3036 have a flag are now skipped.
3037
3038SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3039 Added the -emptyok flag.
3040
3041SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3042 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3043
0ea2a468
JJ
3044JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3045 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 3046 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
3047
3048JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3049 match 4.64-PH/13
3050
3051JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3052 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3053
3054JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3055
3056JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3057 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3058
8a10f5a4
PH
3059PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3060
30e18802
PH
3061PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3062 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3063 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3064 contravention of the specifications.
3065
55728a4f
PH
3066PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3067 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3068 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 3069
d7837193
PH
3070PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3071 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3072 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3073
87054a31
PH
3074PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3075
ea2c01d2
MH
3076MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3077 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3078 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3079 some point in the past.
3080
e4fa6968
PH
3081PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3082 transport during callout processing was broken.
3083
56f5d9bd
PH
3084PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3085 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3086
922e1c28
PH
3087PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3088 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3089
21eb6e72
PH
3090PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3091 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3092
a0540757
PH
3093PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3094
944e9e9c 3095
478be7b0
SC
3096Exim version 4.63
3097-----------------
3098
3099SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3100 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3101
3102SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3103 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3104 there is data to show.
3105 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3106
3107SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3108 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3109
2b965a65
TF
3110TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3111 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 3112
45b91596
PH
3113TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3114 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 3115
c59f5781
TF
3116TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3117 submissions from trusted users.
3118
90fc3069
TF
3119TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3120 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3121
6083aca0
TF
3122TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3123 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3124 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3125 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3126 there is now a framework to start from.
3127
765b530f
PH
3128PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3129 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3130 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3131
4e167a8c
PH
3132PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3133
4608d683
PH
3134PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3135
b8dc3e4a
PH
3136PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3137
5418e93b
PH
3138PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3139 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3140 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3141
b4a9bda2
PH
3142PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3143 libradius.
3144
45b91596
PH
3145PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3146 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3147 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3148
5547e2c5
PH
3149PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3150 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3151 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3152 its arguments.
3153
dbcef0ea
PH
3154PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3155 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3156 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3157 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3158 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3159
25257489
PH
3160PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3161 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3162
c816d124
PH
3163PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3164
a9ccd69a
PH
3165PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3166 operations in malware.c.
3167
75fa1910
PH
3168PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3169 signatures.
3170
a7d7aa58
PH
3171PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3172 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3173 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3174 all.
3175
42119b09
PH
3176PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3177 statements to "add_header".
3178
41609df5
PH
3179PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3180 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3181
a5bd321b
PH
3182PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3183 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3184 latter.
3185
e85a7ad5 3186PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3187 so that it is now:
3188
e85a7ad5
PH
3189 ${if or { \
3190 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3191 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3192 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3193 }{no}{yes}}
3194
e85a7ad5
PH
3195 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3196 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3197
d8fe1c03
PH
3198PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3199 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3200
16282d2b
PH
3201PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3202 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3203 any possible encoding problems.
3204
35d40a98
PH
3205PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3206 but not after initializing Perl.
3207
034d99ab
PH
3208PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3209 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3210 apparently, which is not desirable.
3211
6ec97b1b
PH
3212PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3213 queries.
3214
e22ca4ac
JJ
3215JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3216 --not options
3217
3218JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3219
33d73e3b
PH
3220PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3221 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3222 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3223 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3224
9ecb03f3
PH
3225PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3226 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3227 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3228
084efe8d
PH
3229PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3230 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3231 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3232 0.12.
3233
366fc9f0
PH
3234PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3235 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3236 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3237 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3238 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3239
c59f5781 3240
c887c79e
TF
3241Exim version 4.62
3242-----------------
3243
3244TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3245 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3246
1cce3af8
PH
3247PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3248 patch).
3249
afb3eaaf
PH
3250PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3251 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3252 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3253 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3254 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3255 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3256 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3257 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3258 451 error is used.
3259
e173618b
PH
3260PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3261
dd16e114
PH
3262PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3263 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3264 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3265
f7fd3850
PH
3266PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3267 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3268 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3269 odd errors.
3270
d87df92c
PH
3271PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3272 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3273
7e9f683d
PH
3274PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3275 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3276 option (which defaults to 0600).
3277
bfad5236
PH
3278PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3279
01c490df
PH
3280PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3281 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3282 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3283 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3284 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3285 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3286 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3287
d6629cdc
PH
3288PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3289
1cce3af8 3290
214e2000
PH
3291Exim version 4.61
3292-----------------
3293
3294PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3295 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3296 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3297 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3298 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3299 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3300 addresses as local.
3301
f9daeae0
PH
3302PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3303 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3304
7e66e54d
PH
3305PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3306
c8ea1597
PH
3307PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3308 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3309 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3310 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3311 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3312 grumble.
3313
911f6fde
PH
3314PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3315 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3316
47ca6d6c
PH
3317PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3318 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3319 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3320 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3321 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3322
ed0e9820
PH
3323PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3324 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3325 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3326 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3327
eff37e47
PH
3328PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3329 be the same on different OS.
3330
1921d2ea
PH
3331PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3332 testing.
3333
b3f69ca8
JJ
3334JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3335 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3336
3337JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3338 in 4.61-PH/06
3339
424a1c63
PH
3340PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3341 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3342 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3343 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3344 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3345 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3346 bounce message.
3347
7a100415
PH
3348PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3349 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3350 when Exim was called.
3351
19b9dc85
PH
3352PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3353 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3354
309bd837
PH
3355PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3356 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3357 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3358 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3359
59e82a2a
PH
3360PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3361 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3362 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3363 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3364 changes:
3365
3366 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3367 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3368 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3369
3370 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3371 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3372 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3373
9edc04ce
PH
3374PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3375 feature).
3376
1349e1e5
PH
3377PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3378 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3379 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3380 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3381 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3382 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3383 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3384 values from the SRV records were lost.
3385
ea49d0e1
PH
3386PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3387 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3388 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3389
064a94c9
PH
3390PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3391 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3392 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3393
727071f8
PH
3394PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3395 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3396 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3397 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3398 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3399 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3400 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3401 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3402 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3403 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3404
f78eb7c6
PH
3405PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3406 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3407 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3408
21c28500
PH
3409PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3410 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3411
3412PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3413 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3414 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3415 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3416 is given.
3417
1688f43b
PH
3418PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3419 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3420 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3421
3422PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3423 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3424 PH/23 above applies.
3425
9675b384
PH
3426PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3427 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3428 (for which there is an explicit test).
3429
6a3f1455
PH
3430PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3431
dac79d3e
PH
3432PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3433 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3434 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3435 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3436 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3437
5977a0b3
PH
3438PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3439 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3440 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3441 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3442
c91535f3
PH
3443PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3444 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3445 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3446
0d46a8c8
PH
3447PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3448
278c6e6c
PH
3449PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3450
2cbb4081
PH
3451PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3452 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3453 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3454
3eef829e
PH
3455PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3456 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3457 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3458 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3459 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3460
1ab95fa6
PH
3461PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3462 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3463 the message gets confusing).
3464
230205fc
PH
3465PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3466 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3467 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3468 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3469
75e0e026
PH
3470PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3471 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3472 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3473 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3474 same order.
3475
3476PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3477 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3478 the different processes.
3479
145396a6
PH
3480PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3481
3cd34f13
PH
3482PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3483
11121d3d
JJ
3484JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3485 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3486
3487JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3488 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3489
3490JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3491 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3492 messages matching specified criteria.
3493
8def5aaf
PH
3494PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3495
929ba01c
PH
3496PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3497 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3498
2632889e
PH
3499PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3500 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3501 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3502 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3503 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3504 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3505 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3506 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3507 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3508 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3509
944a9c55
PH
3510PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3511 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3512 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3513
4a23603b
PH
3514PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3515
4730f942
PH
3516PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3517 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3518 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3519 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3520 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3521 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3522 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3523 the variable.
3524
30dba1e6
PH
3525PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3526 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3527
382afc6b
PH
3528PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3529
a86229cf
PH
3530PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3531
50c99ba6
PH
3532PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3533
d35e429d
PH
3534PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3535 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3536 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3537 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3538 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3539 size of the count of files.
3540
f90d018c
PH
3541PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3542
75def545
PH
3543PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3544 used in LMTP mode:
3545
3546 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3547 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3548 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3549 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3550
3551 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3552 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3553 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3554
3555PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3556 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3557 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3558 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3559 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3560
c46782ef
PH
3561PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3562 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3563
71fafd95
PH
3564PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3565 will now be deprecated.
3566
2c5db4fd
PH
3567PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3568
9cf6b11a
JJ
3569JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3570 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3571 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3572
3573JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3574 with very large, slow to parse queues
3575
3576JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3577
3578JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3579
898d150f
PH
3580PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3581 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3582 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3583 SMTP output lines.
3584
46218253
PH
3585PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3586 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3587 Sieve code now uses this.
3588
e97957bc
PH
3589PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3590 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3591
81e509d7
PH
3592PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3593 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3594
3d240ff7
PH
3595PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3596
b37c4101
PH
3597PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3598 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3599 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3600 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3601 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3602
79378e0f
PH
3603PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3604 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3605 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3606 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3607
e49c7bb4
PH
3608PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3609
d114ec46
PH
3610PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3611
f3d7df6c
PH
3612PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3613 is preferred over IPv4.
3614
715ab376
PH
3615PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3616 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3617 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3618 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3619 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3620 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3621 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3622
6b31b150
PH
3623PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3624 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3625 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3626
3627PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3628
d515a917
PH
3629PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3630 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3631 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3632 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3633 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3634 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3635 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3636 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3637 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3638 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3639 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3640
9b8fadde
PH
3641PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3642 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3643 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3644
214e2000 3645
5de37277
PH
3646Exim version 4.60
3647-----------------
3648
cc38ddbf
PH
3649PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3650
3651 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3652 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3653
3654 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3655 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3656 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3657
72fdd6ae
PH
3658PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3659
3660 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3661 not a single digit.
3662
3663 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3664 string.
3665
3666 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3667 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3668 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3669 silly things.
3670
3671 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3672 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3673
3674 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3675 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3676
cb741023
PH
3677PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3678 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3679 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3680
f174f16e
PH
3681PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3682 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3683
c25242d7
PH
3684PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3685 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3686
3687 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3688
3689 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3690 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3691 this:
3692
3693 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3694
82c19f95
PH
3695PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3696 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3697 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3698 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3699 identical. For example:
3700
3701 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3702
3703 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3704 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3705 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3706
d7ffbc12
PH
3707PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3708 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3709 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3710 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3711
9f526266
PH
3712PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3713 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3714 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3715 message.
3716
87fcc8b9
PH
3717PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3718
3719 o fixes some comments
3720 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3721 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3722 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3723 and documents the missing references header update
3724
3725 and most important:
3726
3727 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3728 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3729 result)
3730
456682f5
PH
3731PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3732 Electronic Mail") by including:
3733
3734 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3735
3736 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3737 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3738 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3739 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3740 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3741
3742 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3743
3744 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3745
3746 The auto-replied keyword:
3747
3748 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3749 message by an automatic process,
3750
3751 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3752
3753 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3754 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3755
3756 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3757 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3758 other messages.
3759
3e46c1aa
PH
3760PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3761 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3762
49826d12
PH
3763PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3764
eba0c039
PH
3765PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3766 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3767 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3768
a0d6ba8a
PH
3769PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3770 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3771 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3772
f0917727
PH
3773PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3774 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3775 and treats the condition as false.
3776
096fee00
PH
3777PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3778
024bd3c2
PH
3779PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3780 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3781 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3782 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3783 not changing the active code.
3784
3785 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3786 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3787
3788 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3789 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3790
df199fec
PH
3791PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3792 (Bugzilla #53).
3793
d27f1df3
PH
3794PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3795 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3796 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3797 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3798 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3799 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3800 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3801 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3802 the text comparison.
3803
96776534
PH
3804PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3805 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3806 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3807 The same fix has been applied.
3808
5de37277 3809
9a799bc0
PH
3810Exim version 4.54
3811-----------------
3812
3813PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3814 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3815 It now does.
3816
99a4b039
PH
3817PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3818 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3819
3820PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3821
4b233853
PH
3822PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3823 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3824 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3825 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3826 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3827
8857ccfd
PH
3828TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3829 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3830 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3831 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3832 or /domain=).
3833
433a2980
PH
3834PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3835 testing suite.
3836
3e46c1aa 3837
9a799bc0 3838
e3a311ba
TK
3839Exim version 4.53
3840-----------------
3841
3842TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3843 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3844
13b685f9
PH
3845PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3846
395ff96d
PH
3847PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3848
5b68f6e4
PH
3849PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3850 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3851 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3852
1ab52c69
PH
3853PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3854 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3855 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3856
b07e6aa3
PH
3857PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3858 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3859 operating systems.
3860
254e032f
PH
3861PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3862 ${stat: expansion item.
3863
3af76a81
PH
3864PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3865 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3866
2548ba04
PH
3867PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3868 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3869 file for comments.
3870
b6c6011d
PH
3871PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3872
cf39cf57
PH
3873PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3874 setting.
3875
f1513293
PH
3876PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3877 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3878
727549a4
PH
3879TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3880
af46795e
PH
3881PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3882 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3883 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3884 the end of the subprocess.
3885
d7b47fd0
PH
3886PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3887 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3888 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3889 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3890 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3891
ee744174
JJ
3892JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3893
b582ab87
PH
3894TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3895
41a13e0a
PH
3896PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3897 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3898
f625cc5a
PH
3899PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3900
3901PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3902
21f7af35
PH
3903PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3904 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3905 HP-UX compiler.
3906
31480e42
PH
3907PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3908
2d280592
PH
3909PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3910 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3911 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3912
7cd1141b
PH
3913PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3914 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3915
3916PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3917 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3918
750af86e
PH
3919PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3920 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3921
3922 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3923 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3924
3925 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3926 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3927 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3928 contributed by a Radius user.
3929
3930PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3931 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3932
4304270b
TK
3933TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3934 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3935
750af86e
PH
3936PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3937 available.
3938
64ffc24f
PH
3939PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3940 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3941 received.
3942
5dd9625b
PH
3943PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3944 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3945 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3946 header lines when this was not necessary.
3947
5591031b
PH
3948PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3949
ba18e66a
PH
3950PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3951 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3952 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3953 exists".
3954
9cec981f
PH
3955PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3956 -bV or -d is used.
3957
aa2b5c79
PH
3958PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3959 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3960 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3961 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3962
48a53b7f
PH
3963PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3964
1c59d63b
PH
3965PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3966
671012da
TK
3967TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3968
1509d3a8
PH
3969PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3970
3971PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3972 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3973 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3974 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3975 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3976 settings.
3977
3978PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3979
2fe1a124
PH
3980PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3981 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3982 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3983 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3984 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3985 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3986 which is clearly wrong.
3987
8800895a
PH
3988PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3989
ccfdb010
PH
3990PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3991 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3992 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3993 subsequently added.
3994
1130bfb0
PH
3995PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3996 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3997
ebcb507f
PH
3998PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3999
c35e155c
PH
4000PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4001 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4002
95d1f782
PH
4003PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4004 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4005
fd6de02e
PH
4006PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4007 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4008
58de37c5
PH
4009PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4010 recipients, not senders.
4011
261cf466
TF
4012TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4013 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4014
3ee512ff
PH
4015PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4016
e08c430f
PH
4017PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4018
bef5a11f
PH
4019PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4020 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4021 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4022 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4023
7546de58
TF
4024TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4025
e5d5a95f
TF
4026TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4027 clock is set back in time.
4028
2e88a017
TF
4029TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4030 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4031
a5f65aa4
TF
4032TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4033 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4034
e7726cbf
PH
4035PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4036 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4037 (see PH/47 above).
4038
a7fdad5b
TF
4039TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4040 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4041 header rewrites.
4042
6af56900
PH
4043PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4044 type ("H").
4045
0925ede6
PH
4046PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4047
66afa403
TF
4048TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4049 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4050 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4051
0154e85a
TF
4052TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4053 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4054 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4055 helo verification defer as a failure.
4056
16f12c76
PH
4057PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4058 actual error message.
4059
bbe902f0 4060
e5a9dba6
PH
4061Exim version 4.52
4062-----------------
4063
4064TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4065
22c3b60b
PH
4066PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4067 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4068 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4069 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4070
06a9b4b5
PH
4071TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4072
c1ac6996
PH
4073PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4074 can still be requested.
4075
9c7a242c
PH
4076PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4077 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4078 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4079 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4080
87ba3f5f
PH
4081TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4082 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4083 circumstances, but probably never did.
4084
4085PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4086 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4087 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4088 in the header line.
4089
29aba418
TF
4090TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4091
fe0dab11
TF
4092TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4093 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 4094
11d337a4
TK
4095TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4096
4097TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4098
415c8f3b
PH
4099PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4100 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4101 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 4102 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
4103 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4104 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 4105
958541e9
PH
4106PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4107 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4108 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4109 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4110 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4111 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4112
c206415f
TK
4113TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4114 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4115
2a4be8f9
PH
4116PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4117 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4118
1cba11c5
SC
4119SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4120 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4121
4c04137d 4122SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
4123
4124SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4125
4126SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4127
4128SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4129
4130SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4131
4132SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4133
1005d00e
TK
4134TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4135
4136TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4137 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4138 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4139
4140TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4141 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4142 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4143 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4144
9b4768fa
PH
4145PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4146 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4147 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4148
4149PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4150 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4151 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4152 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4153
0d7eb84a
PH
4154PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4155 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4156 to be made).
4157
4158PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4159 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4160 should work with maildirs and everything.
4161
40727bee
TK
4162TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4163 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4164
554d2369
TF
4165TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4166 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4167
1f922db1
PH
4168PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4169 function for BDB 4.3.
4170
ef213c3b
PH
4171PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4172
8ac170f3
PH
4173PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4174 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4175 involved.
4176
b1c749bb
PH
4177PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4178 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4179 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4180 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4181 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4182 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4183
4aac9b49
PH
4184PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4185 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4186 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4187 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4188 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4189 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4190 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4191 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4192
294520c8
TK
4193TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4194 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4195 details.
4196
5bd022fe
PH
4197PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4198 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4199
90e9ce59
PH
4200PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4201 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4202 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4203 test. It is now used for both.
4204
5ea81592
PH
4205PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4206 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4207 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4208 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4209 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4210 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4211
c6c2dc1d
PH
4212PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4213 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4214 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4215 string_vformat().
4216
fffffe4c
PH
4217PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4218 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4219 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4220
9a26b6b2
PH
4221PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4222 experimental DomainKeys support:
4223
4224 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4225 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4226 the control was given.
4227
4228 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4229
4aee0225
PH
4230PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4231
32d668a5
PH
4232PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4233
8187c3f3
PH
4234PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4235 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4236 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4237 db.h files).
4238
ff790e47 4239PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4240 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4241 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4242 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4243 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4244 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4245 course.
ff790e47 4246
5417f6d1
PH
4247PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4248 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4249 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4250 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4251 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4252 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4253
59cf8544
PH
4254PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4255 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4256 do -d+all out of habit.
4257
e7ad8a65
PH
4258PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4259 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4260 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4261
ade42478
PH
4262PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4263 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4264 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4265 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4266 record types that Exim uses.
4267
182ad5cf
PH
4268PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4269 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4270 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4271 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4272 non-existent file that was broken.
4273
b0d9fc80
TK
4274TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4275 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4276
4277TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4278 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4279 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4280
4281TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4282
47c7a64a
PH
4283PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4284 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4285 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4286 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4287 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4288 same time.
4289
a388bce4
SC
4290SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4291 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4292 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4293 at a slight CPU cost.
4294
4295SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4296 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4297
4298SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4299 by Marc Sherman.
4300
0793e4ed
SC
4301SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4302
c58b88df
PH
4303PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4304 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4305
e7ad8a65 4306
7982096b
PH
4307Exim version 4.51
4308-----------------
4309
1a46a8c5
PH
4310TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4311 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4312
2f079f46 4313TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4314
4315TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4316
4317PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4318 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4319
4320PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4321 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4322 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4323 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4324 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4325 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4326 file.
4327
4328PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4329 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4330 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4331 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4332 these two options.
4333
4334PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4335 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4336 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4337 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4338 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4339 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4340 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4341 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4342
4343PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4344 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4345
4346PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4347 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4348 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4349 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4350 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4351 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4352
4353PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4354 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4355 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4356 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4357
4358PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4359 Finch).
4360
4361PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4362 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4363
49c2d5ea
PH
4364PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4365 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4366 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4367 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4368 message.
49c2d5ea 4369
bf759a8b
PH
4370PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4371
83364d30
PH
4372PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4373 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4374
7999bbd7
PH
4375PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4376 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4377 to what was transported.)
4378
7dbf77c9
PH
4379TF/01 Added $received_time.
4380
74e0617f
PH
4381PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4382 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4383 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4384 spamd_address settings.
4385
2f079f46
PH
4386PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4387 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4388 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4389 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4390 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4391
8c841523
PH
4392PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4393
7766a4f0
PH
4394PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4395 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4396 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4397 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4398 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4399
8b417f2c
PH
4400PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4401 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4402
901f42cb
PH
4403PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4404 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4405 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4406 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4407 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4408 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4409 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4410 for failure.
4411
f9b9210e
PH
4412PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4413 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4414 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4415 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4416 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4417 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4418 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4419 "input=".
4420
54cdb463
PH
4421PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4422
cf00dad6
PH
4423PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4424 driver and ACL definitions.
4425
acb1b346
PH
4426PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4427 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4428
c5ddb310
PH
4429PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4430 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4431 understands it better than I do:
4432
4433 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4434 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4435
4436 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4437 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4438 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4439 => three warnings about OTP not working
4440 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4441
4442 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4443 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4444 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4445 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4446 for each call.)
4447 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4448 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4449
4450 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4451 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4452 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4453
31619da6
PH
4454PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4455 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4456 specified.
4457
bebaf0fc
PH
4458PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4459 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4460 "Linux".
4461
475fe28a
PH
4462PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4463 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4464 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4465
4466 warn !verify = sender
4467 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4468
4469 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4470 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4471
7e8bec7a
PH
4472PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4473
4474 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4475 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4476
4477 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4478 nomenclature these days.)
4479
e4a89c47
PH
4480PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4481 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4482
5ca2a9a1
PH
4483PH/30 In these circumstances:
4484 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4485 . First host does not offer TLS;
4486 . First host accepts first address;
4487 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4488 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4489 . Second host accepts second address.
4490 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4491 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4492 address.
7e8bec7a 4493
c688b954
PH
4494PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4495 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4496 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4497 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4498 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4499
fed77020
PH
4500PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4501 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4502
7fe1560f
PH
4503PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4504 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4505
ebb6e6d5
PH
4506PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4507 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4508 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4509
9c4e8f60
PH
4510PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4511 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4512 overlooked.
4513
4514PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4515
d7174846
PH
4516PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4517 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4518 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4519 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4520 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4521 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4522 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4523
4524 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4525 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4526 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4527 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4528 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4529
4530 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4531 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4532 routed further.
4533
cfe75fc3
PH
4534PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4535 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4536 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4537 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4538 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4539 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4540
be22d70e
PH
4541PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4542
0612b098
PH
4543PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4544 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4545 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4546 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4547 printable escape sequences.
4548
2e0c1448
PH
4549PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4550 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4551 body only.
4552
447d236c
PH
4553PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4554 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4555 are as follows:
4556
4557 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4558 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4559 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4560 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4561 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4562
4563 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4564 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4565 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4566
d20976dc
PH
4567PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4568
f656d135
PH
4569PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4570 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4571 play with."
4572
2e2a30b4
PH
4573PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4574 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4575 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4576 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4577 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4578 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4579 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4580 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4581 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4582 the log output.
4583
9176e9f0
PH
4584PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4585 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4586 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4587 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4588 "make".
4589
7982096b 4590
bbe902f0
PH
4591A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4592----------------------------------------
4593
4594Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4595changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4596needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4597in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4598that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4599release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4600from 4.43.
4601
4602I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
46034.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4604those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4605historical information.
4606
4607
f7b63901 4608Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4609-----------------
4610
5fe762f6
PH
4611 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4612
139059f6 4613 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4614 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4615
7086e875
PH
4616 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4617 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4618 place.
4619
35af9f61
PH
4620 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4621 filter fails to execute.
4622
b668c215
PH
4623 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4624 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4625 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4626 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4627 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4628
a494b1e1
PH
4629 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4630
4631 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4632 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4633 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4634 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4635
c5fcb476
PH
4636 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4637 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4638 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4639 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4640 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4641
69358f02
PH
4642 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4643
5be20824
PH
464410. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4645
eb2c0248
PH
464611. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4647 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4648 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4649 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4650
2a3eea10
PH
465112. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4652 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4653 sender verification.
4654
465513. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4656 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4657
23c7ff99
PH
465814. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4659
4deaf07d
PH
466015. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4661 connection timeout.
4662
926e1192
PH
466316. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4664 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4665
650edc6f
PH
466617. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4667 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4668
2c7db3f5
PH
466918. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4670 information about exactly what failed.
4671
3d235903
PH
467219. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4673
7c7ad977
PH
467420. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4675 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4676 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4677
981756db
PH
467821. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4679 It is now set to "smtps".
4680
d4eb88df
PH
468122. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4682 ignore_target_hosts.
4683
468423. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4685 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4686 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4687 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4688 "[x.x.x.x]".
4689
7d468ab8
PH
469024. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4691 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4692 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4693
469425. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4695 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4696 wake it up if nothing else does.
4697
62c0818f
PH
469826. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4699 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4700 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4701 end up negative.
4702
26034054
PH
470327. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4704 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4705
af66f652
PH
470628. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4707
90af77f4
PH
470829. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4709 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4710 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4711 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4712 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4713 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4714 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4715 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4716
d8ef3577
PH
471730. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4718 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4719 than one IP address.
4720
5cb8cbc6
PH
472131. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4722 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4723 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4724 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4725
14702f5b
PH
472632. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4727 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4728 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4729 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4730 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4731 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4732
063b1e99
PH
473333. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4734 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4735 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4736 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4737
652e1b65
PH
473834. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4739 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4740 respected.
4741
6f0c9a4f
PH
474235. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4743 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4744 $sender_host_address.
4745
33397d19
PH
474636. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4747 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4748 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4749 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4750 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4751 very small.
4752
7bb56e1f
PH
475337. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4754
4755 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4756 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4757
ea3bc19b
PH
4758 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4759 just the host names, not the priorities.
4760
4761 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4762 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4763 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4764
ea3bc19b 4765 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4766 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4767
0bcb2a0e
PH
476838. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4769 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4770 domain.
4771
2ac0e484
PH
477239. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4773
4e1fde53
PH
477440. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4775 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4776
de365ded
PH
477741. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4778 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4779 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4780
f05da2e8
PH
478142. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4782
d6453af2
PH
478343. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4784
f7b63901
PH
478544. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4786
478745. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4788 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4789 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4790 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4791 because the tests only now provoked it.
4792
a444213a
PH
479346. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4794 (this can affect the format of dates).
4795
0ec020ea
PH
479647. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4797 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4798 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4799 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4800
b1206957
PH
480148. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4802
480349. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4804 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4805 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4806 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4807
26dd5a95
PH
480850. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4809 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4810 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4811
343b2385
PH
481251. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4813 autoreply.
4814
1c5466b9
PH
481552. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4816 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4817 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4818 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4819 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4820 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4821 is going on).
4822
55ee9ee3
PH
482353. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4824 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4825 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4826 the line.
4827
d38f8232
PH
482854. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4829 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4830 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4831
4832 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4833 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4834 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4835 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4836 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4837 so I produce this patch..."
4838
3295e65b
PH
4839 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4840 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4841 is not defined.
4842
7102e136
PH
484355. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4844 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4845 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4846 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4847 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4848
3ca0ba97
PH
484956. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4850
c2bcbe20
PH
485157. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4852 long debug lines gets shown.
4853
18ce445d
PH
485458. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4855 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4856
1f5b4c3d
PH
485759. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4858
4859 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4860 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4861 of $primary_hostname.
4862
b975ba52
PH
486360. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4864 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4865 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4866 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4867 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4868 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4869 by change 4.50/55 above.
4870
4871 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4872 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4873 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4874 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4875 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4876 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4877 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4878
487961. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4880 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4881 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4882 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4883
17ffcae7
PH
488462. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4885 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4886
d95f9fdb
PH
488763. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4888 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4889 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4890 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4891 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4892
86b8287f
PH
489364. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4894 This has been fixed.
4895
60dc5e56
PH
489665. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4897 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4898 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4899 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4900 the caching.)
4901
533244af
PH
490266. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4903
a5a28604
PH
490467. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4905 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4906 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4907 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4908
7e634d24
PH
490968. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4910 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4911
3e11c26b
PH
491269. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4913 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4914 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4915
6729cf78
PH
491670. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4917 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4918 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4919 message there.
4920
00f00ca5
PH
492171. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4922 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4923 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4924
c9bdd01c
PH
492572. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4926 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4927 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4928 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4929
d43194df
PH
493073. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4931 during host lookups.
4932
fe5b5d0b
PH
493374. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4934 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4935
4936 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4937
76a2d7ba
PH
493875. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4939 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4940 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4941 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4942 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4943 background.
4944
494576. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4946 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4947
04f7d5b9
PH
494877. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4949 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4950 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4951
bc60667e
PH
495278. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4953
bb6e88ff
PH
495479. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4955 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4956 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4957 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4958 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4959 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4960 process earlier.
4961
1e70f85b
PH
496280. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4963 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4964 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4965 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4966 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4967
496881. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4969 tables).
4970
4e01f9d6
PH
497182. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4972
1ee1cef2
PH
497383. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4974 "vacation" handling.
4975
6e2b4ccc
PH
497684. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4977 OS variants using glibc.
4978
8e669ac1
PH
497985. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4980
495ae4b0 4981
bbe902f0
PH
4982----------------------------------------------------
4983See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4984----------------------------------------------------
4985
4986
4987Exim version 4.44
4988-----------------
4989
4990 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4991 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4992 transport
4993
4994 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4995 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4996 place.
4997
4998 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4999 filter fails to execute.
5000
5001 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5002 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5003 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5004 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5005 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5006
5007 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5008 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5009 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5010 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5011
5012 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5013 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5014 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5015 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5016 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5017
5018 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5019
5020 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5021 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5022 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5023 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5024
5025 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5026 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5027 sender verification.
5028
502910. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5030 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5031
503211. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5033 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5034
503512. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5036 ignore_target_hosts.
5037
503813. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5039 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5040 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5041 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5042 "[x.x.x.x]".
5043
504414. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5045 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5046 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5047
504815. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5049 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5050 wake it up if nothing else does.
5051
505216. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5053 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5054 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5055 end up negative.
5056
505717. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5058 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5059
ea3a6f44 506018. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
5061
506219. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5063 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5064 empty pattern.
5065
506620. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5067 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5068 one IP address.
5069
ea3a6f44
NM
507021. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5071 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5072 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5073 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5074 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5075 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 5076
ea3a6f44
NM
507722. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5078 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5079 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
5080
508123. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5082 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5083 $sender_host_address.
5084
508524. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5086
ea3a6f44
NM
508725. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5088 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5089 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
5090
509126. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 5092 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 5093
ea3a6f44
NM
509427. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5095 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 5096
ea3a6f44
NM
509728. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5098 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5099 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5100 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
5101
510229. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5103 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5104 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5105
ea3a6f44
NM
510630. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5107 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5108 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5109 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 5110
ea3a6f44
NM
511131. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5112 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5113 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 5114
ea3a6f44
NM
511531. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5116 autoreply.
bbe902f0 5117
ea3a6f44
NM
511832. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5119 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5120 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5121 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5122 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5123 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5124 is going on).
bbe902f0 5125
ea3a6f44
NM
512633. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5127 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5128 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5129 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
5130 CAN-2005-0021
5131
ea3a6f44
NM
513234. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5133 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5134 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5135 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5136 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5137 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5138 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5139
5140 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5141 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5142 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5143 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5144 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5145 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
5146 CAN-2005-0021
5147
ea3a6f44
NM
514835. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5149 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5150 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5151 CAN-2005-0022
5152
ea3a6f44
NM
515336. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5154 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5155 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5156 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5157 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5158
ea3a6f44
NM
515937. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5160 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5161 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5162 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5163 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5164
ea3a6f44
NM
516538. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5166 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5167 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5168 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5169 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5170
5171
495ae4b0
PH
5172Exim version 4.43
5173-----------------
5174
5175 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5176 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5177 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5178 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5179 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5180 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5181 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5182
5183 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5184 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5185 the delivery.
5186
5187 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5188
5189 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5190
5191 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5192 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5193 to local_scan().
5194
5195 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5196 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5197 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5198 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5199 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5200
5201 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5202 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5203
5204 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5205
5206 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5207
520810. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5209 header_sender only.
5210
521111. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5212 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5213
521412. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5215 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5216 affecting debugging statements).
5217
521813. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5219
522014. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5221 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5222 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5223 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5224 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5225 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5226 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5227 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5228 after the received time, and all would be well.
5229
523015. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5231 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5232 condition in an expansion string.
5233
523416. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5235
523617. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5237 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5238 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5239 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5240 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5241 job under whatever limits there are.
5242
524318. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5244
524519. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5246 space).
5247
524820. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5249 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5250 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5251 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5252 return path is set.
5253
525421. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5255 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5256 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5257 binary data in such strings.
5258
525922. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5260
526123. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5262 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5263 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5264 failure, which is pointless.
5265
526624. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5267
526825. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5269
527026. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5271 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5272 Sender: header lines.
5273
527427. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5275 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5276 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5277
527828. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5279 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5280 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5281 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5282 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5283 happens.
5284
528529. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5286 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5287 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5288 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5289 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5290
529130. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5292 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5293 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5294 1024.
5295
529631. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5297 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5298
529932. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5300 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5301
530233. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5303
530432. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5305
530633. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5307
530834. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5309 syntax error.
5310
531135. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5312
531336. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5314
531537. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5316 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5317 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5318 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5319
532038. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5321 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5322
5323
5324Exim version 4.42
5325-----------------
5326
5327 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5328 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5329 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5330 it was not quoted.
5331 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5332 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5333 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5334 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5335 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5336 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5337
5338 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5339 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5340 verification failure".
5341
5342 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5343 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5344 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5345 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5346
5347 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5348 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5349 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5350 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5351 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5352 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5353 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5354 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5355 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5356 treated as a timeout.
5357
5358 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5359 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5360 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5361 not set for Exim filters).
5362
5363 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5364 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5365 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5366
5367 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5368
5369 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5370 try to make them clearer.
5371
5372 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5373 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5374
5375 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5376
5377 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5378
537910. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5380 only the Cygwin environment.
5381
538211. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5383 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5384 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5385 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5386 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5387
538812. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5389 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5390 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5391 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5392 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5393 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5394 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5395
539613. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5397 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5398
539914. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5400
5401 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5402 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5403 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5404
5405 To: susanne@some.where
5406
5407 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5408 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5409 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5410 of addresses in From: header lines).
5411
5412 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5413 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5414 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5415
5416 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5417 treated as non-personal.
5418
5419 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5420 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5421
542215. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5423
542416. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5425
542617. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5427 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5428 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5429
543018. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5431 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5432
543319. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5434 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5435 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5436 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5437 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5438 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5439
544020. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5441 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5442 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5443 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5444 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5445 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5446 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5447 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5448
5449 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5450
545121. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5452 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5453
545422. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5455 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5456 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5457
545823. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5459 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5460
546124. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5462 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5463 rather than long int.
5464
546525. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5466
546726. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5468
5469
5470Exim version 4.41
5471-----------------
5472
5473 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5474 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5475 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5476 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5477 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5478 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5479
5480
5481Exim version 4.40
5482-----------------
5483
5484 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5485 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5486
5487 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5488 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5489 socklen_t is defined.
5490
5491 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5492 always exist.
5493
5494 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5495 configured.
5496
5497 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5498 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5499 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5500 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5501 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5502
5503 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5504 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5505 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5506 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5507
5508 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5509 of flapping under certain conditions.
5510
5511 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5512 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5513 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5514
5515 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5516
551710. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5518
551911. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5520 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5521 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5522 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5523
552412. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5525 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5526 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5527 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5528 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5529 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5530 preserved with the message after it was received.
5531
553213. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5533 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5534 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5535 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5536 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5537 test suite worked just fine.
5538
553914. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5540 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5541 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5542
554315. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5544 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5545 string.
5546
554716. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5548 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5549 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5550 does not fully solve it.
5551
555217. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5553 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5554 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5555 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5556 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5557
555818. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5559 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5560 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5561
556219. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5563 string, for example:
5564
5565 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5566
5567 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5568 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5569 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5570 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5571 the routers could not see them.
5572
557320. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5574 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5575
557621. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5577 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5578 output).
5579
558022. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5581 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5582 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5583 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5584 that needed quoting.
5585
558623. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5587 was not being matched caselessly.
5588
558924. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5590 backslashes.
5591
559225. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5593 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5594 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5595 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5596 when use_sender is false.
5597
559826. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5599
560027. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5601
560228. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5603
560429. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5605 the configuration file.
5606
560730. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5608 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5609
561031. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5611
561232. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5613 bytes in the message body.
5614
561533. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5616 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5617 delivery.
5618
561934. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5620
562135. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5622
562336. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5624 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5625 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5626 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5627 another IP address.
5628
5629
5630Exim version 4.34
5631-----------------
5632
5633 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5634 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5635
5636 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5637 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5638 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5639 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5640 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5641
5642 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5643 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5644
5645 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5646 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5647 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5648
5649 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5650 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5651 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5652
5653 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5654 for routers.
5655
5656 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5657 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5658 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5659 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5660 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5661 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5662 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5663
5664
5665Exim version 4.33
5666-----------------
5667
5668 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5669 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5670 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5671 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5672 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5673 default (and expected) setting.
5674
5675 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5676 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5677 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5678 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5679
5680 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5681 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5682
5683 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5684 in domain lists.
5685
5686 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5687 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5688 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5689 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5690 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5691 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5692
5693 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5694 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5695 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5696
5697 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5698 part (NOT match_host).
5699
5700 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5701
5702 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5703 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5704 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5705 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5706 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5707 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5708 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5709 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5710 the same named file.
5711
571210. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5713 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5714 when Exim is built.
5715
571611. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5717 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5718 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5719 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5720 a host name.
5721
572212. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5723 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5724 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5725
572613. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5727
572814. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5729
573015. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5731
573216. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5733 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5734
573517. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5736 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5737 before starting the TLS session.
5738
573918. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5740
574119. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5742 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5743
574420. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5745 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5746 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5747 colon in the middle).
5748
5749
5750Exim version 4.32
5751-----------------
5752
5753 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5754 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5755 multiple configurations are in use.
5756
5757 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5758 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5759 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5760 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5761 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5762 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5763
5764 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5765 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5766
5767 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5768 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5769 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5770
5771 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5772 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5773 occurs.
5774
5775 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5776 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5777
5778 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5779
5780 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5781 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5782
5783 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5784
5785 -prval:sval
5786
5787 is equivalent to
5788
5789 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5790
5791 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5792 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5793 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5794 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5795 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5796
579710. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5798 Exim's behaviour:
5799
5800 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5801 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5802 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5803 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5804 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5805 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5806
5807 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5808 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5809 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5810 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5811 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5812 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5813 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5814 string.
5815
5816 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5817 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5818 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5819 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5820 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5821
582211. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5823
582412. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5825 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5826 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5827
582813. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5829
583014. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5831 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5832 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5833 information.
5834
583515. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5836 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5837
583816. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5839 Three changes have been made:
5840
5841 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5842 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5843 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5844 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5845 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5846
5847 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5848 been restored.
5849
5850 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5851 the modified behaviour.
5852
5853
5854Exim version 4.31
5855-----------------
5856
5857 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5858 Larry Rosenman.
5859
5860 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5861 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5862
5863 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5864 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5865 try to track down a specific problem.
5866
5867 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5868 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5869 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5870
5871 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5872 warning.
5873
5874 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5875 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5876 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5877 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5878 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5879 some earlier ones do not.
5880
5881 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5882
5883 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5884 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5885 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5886 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5887 address literals are enabled, of course).
5888
5889 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5890
589110. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5892 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5893 by a command such as
5894
5895 exim -f "" ...
5896
5897 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5898
589911. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5900
590112. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5902 remained set. It is now erased.
5903
590413. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5905 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5906
590714. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5908 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5909 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5910 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5911 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5912 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5913 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5914 appropriate error code.
5915
591615. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5917 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5918 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5919 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5920 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5921 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5922
592316. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5924 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5925 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5926
592717. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5928 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5929 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5930 terminate the header.
5931
593218. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5933 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5934 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5935
593619. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5937 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5938 (4.30/29). In particular:
5939
5940 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5941 imposed.
5942
5943 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5944 to write a maildirsize file.
5945
5946 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5947 the transport, the new value overrides.
5948
5949 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5950 count.
5951
595220. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5953 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5954 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5955 space or a tab.
5956
595721. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5958 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5959 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5960 the fallback hosts.
5961
596222. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5963 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5964 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5965
596623. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5967 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5968 using a union.
5969
597024. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5971 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5972 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5973
597425. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5975
597626. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5977
597827. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5979
598028. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5981 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5982 become corrupted.
5983
598429. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5985 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5986 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5987 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5988 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5989 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5990 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5991 too great.
5992
599330. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5994 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5995 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5996 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5997 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5998 incorrectly.
5999
600031. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6001 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6002 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6003 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6004 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6005 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6006 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6007 cached value only when the same options are set.
6008
600932. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6010
601133. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6012 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6013 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6014 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6015 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6016
601734: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6018 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6019 it is clearly obsolete.
6020
602135. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6022 transport.
6023
602436. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6025 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6026 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6027 times.
6028
602937. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6030 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6031 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6032 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6033 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6034
603538. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6036 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6037 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6038 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6039
604039. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6041
6042 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6043
6044 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6045 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6046 2^31.
6047
604840. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6049 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6050 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6051 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6052 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6053 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6054 $localpart_data.
6055
605641. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6057 with the -f command-line option.
6058
605942. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6060 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6061 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6062 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6063 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6064 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6065
606643. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6067 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6068 line.
6069
607044. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6071 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6072 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6073 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6074 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6075 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6076 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6077 buffer is too small.
6078
607945. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6080 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6081
608246. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6083 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6084 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6085 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6086 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6087 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6088 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6089 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6090 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6091
609247. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6093 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6094 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6095
609648. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6097 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6098 ACL").
6099
610049. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6101 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6102 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6103 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6104 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6105
610650. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6107 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6108 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6109 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6110 is set.
6111
611251. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6113
611452. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6115
611653. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6117 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6118
611954. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6120 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6121 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6122
612355. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6124 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6125 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6126 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6127 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6128
612956. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6130 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6131 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6132 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6133 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6134 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6135 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6136
613757. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6138 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6139 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6140 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6141 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6142 the test of how many are available.
6143
614458. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6145 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6146 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 6147 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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6148 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6149 new message is started.
6150
615159. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6152 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6153
615460. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6155 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6156
615761. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6158 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6159 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6160 is no long logged.
6161
616262. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6163 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6164 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6165 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6166 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6167 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6168 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6169
617063. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6171 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6172 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6173 interpreted as octal.
6174
617564. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6176 setting.
6177
617865. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6179 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6180 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6181 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6182 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6183 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6184
618566. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6186 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6187 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6188 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6189
6190 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6191 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6192 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6193 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6194
6195 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6196 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6197 is a bug fix.
6198
6199 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6200 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6201
620267. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6203
620468. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6205 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6206 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6207 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6208
620969. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6210 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6211 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6212 supplied", which is not helpful.
6213
621470. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6215 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6216 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6217
621871. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6219 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6220 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6221 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6222 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6223 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6224 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6225 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6226
622772. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6228 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6229 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6230 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6231 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6232
623373. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6234 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6235 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6236 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6237 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6238 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6239
624074. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6241 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6242 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6243
624475. Added write_rejectlog option.
6245
624676. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6247 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6248 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6249 variables.
6250
625177. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6252
625378. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6254 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6255 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6256 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6257 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6258 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6259 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6260 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6261
626279. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6263 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6264 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6265 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6266 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6267
626880. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6269 Haardt.
6270
627181. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6272 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6273 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6274 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6275 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6276 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6277 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6278 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6279 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6280
6281
6282Exim version 4.30
6283-----------------
6284
6285 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6286 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6287 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6288
6289 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6290 fixed.
6291
6292 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6293 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6294 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6295
6296 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6297 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6298 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6299 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6300 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6301 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6302
6303 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6304 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6305 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6306 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6307 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6308 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6309 the Exim test suite.
6310
6311 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6312 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6313 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6314 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6315
6316 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6317 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6318 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6319 specify it in this variable.
6320
6321 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6322 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6323 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6324 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6325
6326 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6327 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6328 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6329 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6330
6331 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6332 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6333 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6334 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6335 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6336
6337 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6338
633910. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6340 they are logged.
6341
634211. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6343 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6344 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6345 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6346 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6347
634812. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6349 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6350
635113. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6352 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6353 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6354 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6355 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6356
635714. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6358 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6359
636015. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6361 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6362 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6363
636416. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6365 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6366
636717. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6368 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6369
637018. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6371 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6372 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6373
637419. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6375 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6376
637720. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6378 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6379 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6380 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6381
638221. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6383
638422. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6385 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6386 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6387 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6388
638923. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6390
639124. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6392 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6393
639425. Added .include_if_exists.
6395
639626. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6397 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6398 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6399 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6400 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6401 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6402
640327. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6404
640528. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6406 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6407 this.
6408
640929. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6410
641130. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6412 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6413
6414 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6415 550 Sender verify failed
6416
6417 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6418 the final line of the response.
6419
642031. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6421 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6422 all other user lookups.
6423
642432. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6425 delivery time.
6426
642733. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6428 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6429 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6430 result into an int without checking.
6431
643234. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6433 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6434 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6435
643635. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6437 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6438 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6439 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6440
644136. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6442 correctly.
6443
644437. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6445 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6446
644738. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6448 to the empty sender.
6449
645039. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6451 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6452 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6453 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6454 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6455 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6456 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6457 panic log.
6458
645940. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6460 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6461 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6462 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6463 used.
6464
646541. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6466 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6467
646842. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6469 timestamps.
6470
647143. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6472 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6473
647444. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6475
647645. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6477 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6478 logs.
6479
648046. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6481 as soon as it is encountered.
6482
648347. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6484
648548. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6486 rewritten to "<>".
6487
648849. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6489 recognizes a tab character.
6490
649150. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6492 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6493 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6494 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6495
649651. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6497
649852. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6499 crash.
6500
650153. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6502
650354. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6504
650555. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6506 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6507 2822.
6508
650956. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6510 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6511 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6512 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6513 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6514
651557. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6516 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6517
651858. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6519 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6520 list (.included file names were always shown).
6521
652259. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6523 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6524 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6525 root at that time.
6526
652760. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6528 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6529
653061. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6531
653262. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6533
653463. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6535
653664. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6537 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6538 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6539 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6540 failures to open the logs.
6541
654265. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6543 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6544 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6545 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6546 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6547 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6548 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6549
6550
6551Exim version 4.24
6552-----------------
6553
6554 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6555 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6556 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6557 change 4.23/1.
6558
6559 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6560 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6561 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6562
6563 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6564 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6565 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6566
6567 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6568 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6569 causing some misleading effects.
6570
6571 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6572 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6573 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6574
6575 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6576 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6577 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6578 queue-runner function directly.
6579
6580
6581Exim version 4.23
6582-----------------
6583
6584 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6585 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6586
6587 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6588 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6589 was always written to the default place.
6590
6591 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6592 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6593 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6594
6595 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6596
6597 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6598
6599 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6600 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6601 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6602
6603 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6604 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6605 must start.
6606
6607 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6608 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6609 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6610
6611 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6612 command line option is disabled.
6613
6614 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6615 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6616
6617 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6618
6619 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6620
6621 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6622 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6623
662410. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6625
662611. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6627 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6628 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6629 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6630 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6631 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6632
663312. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6634 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6635 timeout.
6636
663713. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6638 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6639
664014. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6641 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6642
664315. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6644 received was valid base64.
6645
664616. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6647 name of the variable that was being set.
6648
664917. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6650
665118. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6652 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6653 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6654 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6655 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6656 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6657
665819. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6659
666020. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6661 nor realm was specified.
6662
666321. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6664 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6665 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6666 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6667
666822. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6669 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6670 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6671
667223. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6673 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6674 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6675
667624. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6677 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6678 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6679 some systems use these upper case variants.
6680
668125. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6682 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6683 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6684 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6685
668626. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6687
668827. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6689 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6690
669128. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6692 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6693 expansion variable.
6694
669529. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6696
669730. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6698 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6699 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6700 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6701
670231. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6703 using it.
6704
670532. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6706 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6707 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6708
670933. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6710 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6711
671234. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6713 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6714 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6715 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6716
671735. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6718 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6719 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6720
672136. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6722
672337. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6724 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6725 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6726 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6727 aborted.
6728
672938. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6730 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6731 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6732
673339. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6734
673540. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6736 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6737
673841. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6739 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6740
674142. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6742 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6743 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6744 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6745 when emails are that large.
6746
6747
6748
6749Exim version 4.22
6750-----------------
6751
6752 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6753 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6754
6755 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6756 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6757 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6758
6759 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6760 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6761 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6762
6763 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6764 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6765 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6766 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6767 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6768
6769 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6770 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6771 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6772 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6773 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6774 ever.
6775
6776 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6777 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6778 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6779 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6780 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6781 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6782 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6783 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6784 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6785 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6786 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6787 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6788 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6789 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6790
6791 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6792 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6793 parameterised it.
6794
6795 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6796 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6797 error should be diagnosed.
6798
6799 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6800 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6801 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6802 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6803 appeared instead of "NULL".
6804
680510. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6806 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6807 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6808 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6809 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6810 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6811 proceeds).
6812
6813 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6814 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6815 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6816
6817
6818Exim version 4.21
6819-----------------
6820
6821 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6822 or receiver verification errors.
6823
6824 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6825 name.
6826
6827 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6828 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6829 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6830 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6831
6832 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6833 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6834 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6835 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6836 shouldn't happen again.
6837
6838 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6839 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6840 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6841
6842 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6843 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6844
6845 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6846
6847 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6848 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6849
6850 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6851 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6852 RFC.
6853
685410. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6855 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6856 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6857
685811. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6859 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6860 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6861 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6862
686312. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6864 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6865 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6866 to define what should happen).
6867
686813. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6869 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6870 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6871
687214. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6873
687415. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6875
687616. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6877 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6878
4c04137d 687917. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
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6880 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6881 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6882 structure in all cases.
6883
6884 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6885 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6886 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6887 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6888
688918. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6890 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6891 domain name.
6892
689319. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6894 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6895
689620. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6897 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6898
689921. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6900 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6901 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6902
690322. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6904 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6905 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6906
690723. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6908 the book and for uniformity.
6909
691024. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6911
691225. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 6913 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
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6914 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6915 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6916 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6917 non-existent command as the problem.
6918
691926. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6920 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6921 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6922
692327. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6924
692528. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6926 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6927 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6928
692929. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6930 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6931 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6932 timestamps using strftime().
6933
693430. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6935 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6936
693732. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6938 transport-time rewrites.
6939
694033. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6941 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6942 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6943 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6944
694534. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6946 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6947
694835. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6949 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6950 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6951 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6952 comma and a space.
6953
695436. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6955 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6956 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6957 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6958 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6959 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6960 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6961
696237. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6963 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6964 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6965 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6966 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6967
696838. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6969 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6970 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6971 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6972 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6973 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6974 remaining text gets split now.
6975
697639. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6977 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6978 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6979 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6980
698140. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6982 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6983 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6984 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6985 $return_path.
6986
698741. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6988 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6989 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6990 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6991 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6992 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6993 passed through if needed.
6994
699542. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6996 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6997 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6998 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6999 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7000 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7001
700243. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7003 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7004 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7005 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7006 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7007
700844. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7009 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7010 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7011 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7012 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7013
701445. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7015 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7016 noticed.
7017
701846. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7019 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7020 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7021 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7022 mayhem of various kinds.
7023
702447. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7025 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 7026 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
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7027 the right test for positive values.
7028
702948. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7030 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7031 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7032 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7033 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7034 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7035 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7036 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7037 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7038 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7039 envelope.
7040
704149. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7042 module.
7043
704450. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7045 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7046 forbidding it.
7047
704851. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7049 the existing equality matching.
7050
705152. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7052 dealing with inode numbers.
7053
705453. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7055 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7056 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7057
705854. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7059 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7060 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7061 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7062 local_scan().
7063
706455. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7065 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7066 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7067 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7068 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7069 relay addresses has also been removed.
7070
707156. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7072
707357. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7074 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7075 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7076
707758. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7078 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7079 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7080 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7081 processing applies to CR:
7082
7083 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7084 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7085
7086 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7087 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7088 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7089 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7090
709159. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7092 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7093 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7094
709560. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7096 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7097 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7098 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7099 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7100 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7101 arisen.
7102
710361. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7104 program routers.
7105
710662. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7107 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7108 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7109 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7110 adds:
7111
7112 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7113
7114 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7115
7116 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7117
711863. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7119 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7120 not considered personal.
7121
712264. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7123
712465. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7125
712666. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7127
712867. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7129 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7130 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7131 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7132 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7133 header lines, and spool format errors.
7134
713568. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7136 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7137 for more flexibility.
7138
713969. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7140 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7141 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7142
714370. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7144 Sabourenkov.
7145
714671. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7147 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7148 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7149 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7150 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7151 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7152 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7153 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7154 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7155
715672. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7157 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7158 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7159 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7160 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7161 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7162 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7163
716473. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7165 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7166 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7167
716874. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7169 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7170 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7171 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7172 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7173 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7174 instead of killing the process with assert().
7175
717675. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7177 than Unicode encoding.
7178
717976. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7180 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7181 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7182 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7183
718477. Added process_log_path.
7185
718678. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7187 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7188
718979. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7190 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7191
719280. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7193 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7194 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7195
719681. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7197 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7198 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7199 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7200 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7201 were applied:
7202
7203 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7204 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7205 as invalid.
7206
720782. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7208 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7209 they will be used during message reception.
7210
7211
7212Exim version 4.20
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7214
7215The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
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