Malware: Fix potential spin-on-read-error with kavdaemon
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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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7JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
8 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
9 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
10 client dropping the TLS connection.
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12TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
13 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
14
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15TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
16 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
17 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
18 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
19 outgoing I= field.
20
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21JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
22 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
23 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
24 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
25 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
26 check on the next write.
27
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28HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
29 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
30 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
31 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
32 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
33
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34JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
35 mime_regex ACL conditions.
36
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37JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
38 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
39 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
40
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41JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
42 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
43 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
44 an authenticate fail is not an error.
45
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46HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
47 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
48
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49JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit cacheing of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
50 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
51
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52JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
53 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
54 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
55 distinct.
56
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57JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
58
59JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
60
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61JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
62
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63JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
64 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
65
98b98887 66JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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67 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
68
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69JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
70
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71JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
72 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
73
74JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
75
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76JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
77 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
78
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79JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
80
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81JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
82 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
83 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testuite sane.
84 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
85 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
86 they will retry in-clear.
87 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
88 at installation time.
89
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90HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
91 with the $config_file variable.
92
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93JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
94 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
95 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
96 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
97 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx reponse.
98
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99GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
100 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
101 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
102 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
103 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
104
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105JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
106
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107JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
108 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
109 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
110 list order is no longer honoured.
111
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112JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalisation
113 for DKIM processing.
114
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115JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
116 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
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118JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
119 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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120 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
121 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 122
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123JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
124 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
125
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126JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
127 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
128
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129JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
130 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
131
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132JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
133
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134JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
135 cached by the daemon.
136
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137JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
138 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
139
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141Exim version 4.86
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143JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
144 expanded.
145
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146JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
147
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148JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
149 it.
150
01a4a5c5 151JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 152 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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153 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
154 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
155
cb1d7830 156JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 157 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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158 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
159
610ff438 160JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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161 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
162 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
163 TLS connections
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165JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
166 sites use this now.
167
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168JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
169 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
170 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
171 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
172 have a dsn_lasthop option.
173
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174JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
175 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 176 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 177
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178JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
179
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180JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
181 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
182
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183JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
184 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
185
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186JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
187 /defer_ok option.
188
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189JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
190 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
191
fd4d8871 192JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 193 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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194 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
195
196JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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197 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
198 specify a port-range.
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200JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
201 timeout value per server.
202
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203JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
204 now have the list separator specified.
205
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206JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
207 option values.
208
82c0c8ea 209JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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210 under OpenSSL.
211
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212JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
213
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214JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
215 rather than the verbs used.
216
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217JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
218 from 255 to 1024 chars.
219
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220JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
221
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222HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
223 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 224
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225JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
226 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
227
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228HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
229 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
230
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231JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
232
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233JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
234
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235JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
236 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
237 modern usage is to not canoicalize the domain to a CNAME target
238 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
239
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240JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
241
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242JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
243 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
244
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245JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
246 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
247
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248JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
249
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250JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
251
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252JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
253
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254JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
255 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
256
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257JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
258 added for tls authenticator.
259
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261Exim version 4.85
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263TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
264 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
265 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
266 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
267 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
268 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
269 the script parsing/test process like normal.
270
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271TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
272 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
273 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
274 function when detected.
275
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276JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
277 cause callback expansion.
278
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279TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
280 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
281 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
282 instead of bool when processing it.
283
0f06b4f2 284JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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285 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
286
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287JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
288
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289JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
290
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291TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
292
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293TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
294 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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296JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
297 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
298 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
299 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
300 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
301 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
302
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303JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
304 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
305 exceeded it.
306
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307JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
308 version 3.3.6 or later.
309
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310JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
311 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
312 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 313 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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314 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
315 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
316 option is defined.
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318TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
319 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
320
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321JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
322 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
323 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
324 matches.
325
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326JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
327 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
328 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
329
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330JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
331 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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332
333JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
334 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
335 syntax errors.
336
3394b36a 337JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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338
339JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
340 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
341
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342TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
343 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
344 tarball.
345
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346JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
347
348JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t anchitectures.
349 Bug 1561.
350
351JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
352 output list separator was used.
353
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355Exim version 4.84
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357TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
358 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
359 return.
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361JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
362 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
363
364JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
365
366TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 367 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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372
373TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
374
375 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
376 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
377 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
378 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
379 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
380 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
381
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382TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
383 utilities have not been installed.
384
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385JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
386 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
387
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388TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
389 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
390
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391TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
392 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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393 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
394 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 395
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396JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
397
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398TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
399 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
400
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401PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
402 not dns_use_dnssec.
403
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404JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
405
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406TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
407 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
408 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
409
8ddef691 410TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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411 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
412 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
413 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
414 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 415 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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417JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
418
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419JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
420 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
421
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422JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
423 failed delivery.
424
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425JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
426
511a6c14 427JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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428
429JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
430 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 431
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432JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
433 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
434
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435TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
436
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437JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
438
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439JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
440 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
441
442 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
443 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
444 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
445
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446TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
447 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
448 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
449 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 450
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451JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
452
8c51eead 453JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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454 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
455 lookup).
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457TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
458 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
459 Schlichting.
35aba663 460
fd3b6a4a 461JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 462 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
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464TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
465 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
466
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467JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
468
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469TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
470 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
471 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
472
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473JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
474 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
475
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476JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
477 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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478 hosts_request_ocsp.
479
ed3bba5f 480JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 481 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 482 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 483
8ccd00b1
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484JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
485
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486TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
487 Christian Aistleitner.
488
f2de3a33
JH
489JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
490
6eb02f88
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491TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
492 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
493
00bff6f6
JH
494JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
495 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
496
071c51f7
JH
497JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
498 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
499
a6d4c44e
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500TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
501 support and error reporting did not work properly.
502
3ae173e7
ACK
503TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
504 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
505
c13d09b8
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506TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
507 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
508 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
509
0df4ab80
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510JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
511
66be95e0
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512PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
513 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
514 Jasper Wallace.
515
1bd0d12b
JH
516JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
517
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518TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
519 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
520 CVE-2014-2972
521
fd3b6a4a 522
2c422e6f 523Exim version 4.82
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524-----------------
525
526PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
527
12f69989
PP
528PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
529 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
530
54c90be1
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531PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
532 by GnuTLS.
533
1f4a55da
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534PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
535 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
536 routines.
537
13363eba 538PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 539
66645890 540PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
e402235f
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541 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
542 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
543 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
544 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 545
a3fb9793 546PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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547 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
548 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
549 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 550 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 551 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 552
d27f98fe 553TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 554
6822b909
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555TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
556
e7568d51
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557TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
558 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
559
ae0e32ee 560TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 561 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 562 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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563
564TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 565
e2658fff
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566TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
567
83712b39
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568TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
569 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
570
976b7e9f
JH
571JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
572
be4a1376
JH
573JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
574
ec4b68e5
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575PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
576
d7148a07
NM
577NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
578 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 579
585121e2 580JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 581
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582PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
583 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
584 function.
a5f239e4 585
13d08c90
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586PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
587 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
588
bef3ea7f
JH
589JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
590 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
591 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 592
846726c5
JH
593JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
594
3a796370
JH
595JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
596
ea722490 597JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
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598 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
599
b1b05573
JH
600JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
601 Bugzilla 884.
602
362145b5
JH
603JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
604 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
605
3c0a92dc
JH
606JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
607 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
608
6d7c6175
PP
609PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
610 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 611 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 612
6f123593
JH
613JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
614 authenticators.
615
c8e2fc1e
JH
616JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
617 for control.
618
005ac57f
PP
619PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
620
3f1df0e3
PP
621PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
622 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
623 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
624 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
625
67bd1ab3
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626TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
627
628 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
629 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
630 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
631 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
632 the retry rules.
633
634 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
635 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
636 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
637
638 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
639 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
640 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
641 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
642
1ddeb334
TF
643 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
644 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
645 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
646 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
647 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
648 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
649 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
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650
651 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
652 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
653
326cdc37
TF
654TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
655
656 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
657
658 Resent-From: f
659
660 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
661 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
662 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
663 username as equal to the username.
664
665 This change corrects that bug.
666
f62514b3
GF
667GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
668 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
669 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
670
eb505532
TF
671TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
672
14c7b357
PP
673PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
674 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
675 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
676 NULL dereference and crash.
677
94eaf700
PP
678JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
679
6f5a440a
PP
680PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
681 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
682 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
683
514ee161
SC
684SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
685
fd98a5c6
JH
686JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
687 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
688 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
689 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
690 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
691 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
692 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
693 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
694 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
695 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
696 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
697
035c7f1e
PP
698PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
699 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
700
ff284120
PP
701PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
702 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
703 Bugzilla 880.
704
26e72755
PP
705PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
706 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
707 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
708 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
709 an empty string is now equivalent.
710
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711PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
712 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
713 not performing validation itself.
714
700d22f3
PP
715PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
716 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
717
fcc8e047
JH
718JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
719 Bugzilla 321, 823.
720
7142daca
PP
721TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
722
8c020188
PP
723PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
724 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
725 other false fix of the same issue.
726 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
727 Bugzilla 1363.
728
d13cdd30
PP
729PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
730 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
731
e2fbf4a2
PP
732PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
733 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
734 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
735
f4c1088b
PP
736PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
737 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
738 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
739
c5c2182f
PP
740TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
741
73431ca9
JH
742JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
743
2d07a215
TL
744TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
745 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
746
a30a8861
TL
747TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
748 Alexander Miroch.
749
33382dd9
TL
750TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
751 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
752 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
753 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
754 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 755
046172e6
TL
756TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
757 the src/util/ subdirectory.
758
581d7bee 759TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 760 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
761 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
762
763TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
764 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
765 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
766 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
767
237b2cf2
TL
768TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
769
9fc5a352
TL
770TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
771 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
772 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 773
b10e4ec2
TL
774TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
775
e2cebd74
TL
776TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
777 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
778 interaction.
779
780TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
781 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
782
2519e60d
TL
783TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
784 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
785
e78e6ecf 786
4263f395
PP
787Exim version 4.80.1
788-------------------
789
790PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
791 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 792 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 793
ea722490 794
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797
798PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
799 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
800 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
801
23c7e742
NM
802NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
803
b322aac8
NM
804NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
805 improved.
806
4a891427
NM
807NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
808
c1e794ba 809PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 810
97753960
PP
811PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
812
813PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
814 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
815
df6303fa
PP
816PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
817 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
818
7e6a8985
PP
819PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
820 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
821
f1e05cc7 822PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
823 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
824 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 825
4c287009
PP
826PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
827
b98bb9ac
PP
828PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
829 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
830
4a6a987a
PP
831PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
832
c45dd180 833PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 834
7db8d074
PP
835PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
836 non-compliant senders.
837 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
838
eae0036b 839NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
e0df1c83
DM
840 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
841 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
842
dec5017e
PP
843PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
844 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
845 in spool file corruption.
846
c80c5570
PP
847PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
848 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
849 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
850 "Got SSL error 2".
851
076b11e2
PP
852TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
853 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
854 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
855
5407bfff
JH
856JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
857 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
858
9e45c72b
PP
859JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
860
e74376d8
PP
861PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
862 diagnostics.
863 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
864
da3ad30d
PP
865PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
866 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
867 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
868
7be682ca
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869PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
870 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
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871 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
872 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 873
ef840681
PP
874PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
875 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
876
5bfb4cdf
PP
877PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
878 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
879 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
880 resolver implementation change.
881
c6e95d22
PP
882PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
883 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
884
9cbad13b
PP
885PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
886
9ee44efb
PP
887PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
888
6a6084f8
PP
889PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
890 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
891
12dd53c7
PP
892PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
893 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
894
9e45c72b 895JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
896 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
897
17c76198
PP
898PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
899 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
900 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
901 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 902 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 903
53947857 904PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 905
eae0036b 906PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
907 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
908 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 909
9e45c72b 910JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 911
7390e768
PP
912PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
913 read-only, out of scope).
914 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
915
08488c86
PP
916PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
917 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
918 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
919 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
920
6475bd82
PP
921PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
922
81f91683
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923PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
924 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
925 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
926 real issues in debug logging.
927
5779e6aa
PP
928PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
929 assignment on my part. Fixed.
930
3375e053
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931PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
932 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
933 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
934
935PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
936 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
937 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
938 problems.
3375e053 939
9d26b8c0
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940PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
941 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
942
57eb9e91 943PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
944 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
945 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
946 needs to override this, it can.
947
16880d1a
PP
948PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
949 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
950 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
951
a799883d
PP
952PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
953 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
954 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
955 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
956
3ecab157 957PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 958
0599f9cf 959
867fcbf5
PP
960Exim version 4.77
961-----------------
962
963PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
964 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
965
f1a29782
TF
966TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
967
ab42bd23
TK
968TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
969 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 970
0ca0cf52
TF
971TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
972 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
973
921b12ca
TF
974TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
975 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
976 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
977
978 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
979 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
980 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
981 not safe for signals.
982
983 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
984 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
985 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
986 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
987 exiwhat.
988
c99ce5c9
TF
989TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
990
991 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
992 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
993 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
994 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
995 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
996
997 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
998 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
999 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1000 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1001 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1002 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1003
1004 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1005 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1006 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1007 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1008
1009 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1010 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1011 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1012 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1013
1014 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1015 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1016 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1017 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1018 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1019 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1020 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1021 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1022 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1023
1024 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1025 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1026 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1027 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1028
1029 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1030 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1031 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1032 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1033 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1034 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1035 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1036 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1037 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1038 details in the main documentation.
1039
3634fc25
TF
1040TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1041
792e8a19
TF
1042TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1043
5901f0ab
TF
1044TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1045 repository when doing development or release builds.
1046
7f2a2a43
PP
1047PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1048 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1049
061b7ebd
PP
1050PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1051 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1052 Bugzilla 97.
1053
e12f8c32
PP
1054PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1055
9e949f00 1056PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1057 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1058
1059PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1060 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1061
555ae6af 1062PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1063 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1064
1065PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1066 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1067
6f7fe114
PP
1068PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1069 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1070
c566dd90
PP
1071PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1072 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1073 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1074 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1075
d6cc7c78 1076PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1077 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1078 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1079
0d0e4455
PP
1080PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1081
3399bb60 1082PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1083
1084PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1085 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1086
0ca0cf52 1087
10906672
PP
1088Exim version 4.76
1089-----------------
1090
1091PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1092
754a0503
PP
1093PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1094 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1095
c0c7b2da
PP
1096PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1097
e97d1f08
PP
1098PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1099
084c1d8c
PP
1100PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1101 Bugzilla 1098.
1102
4e7ee012
PP
1103PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1104 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1105
c8d52a00
PP
1106TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1107 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1108
54e7ce4a
PP
1109PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1110 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1111
5ee6f336
PP
1112PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1113 Bugzilla 1104.
1114
c8d52a00 1115TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1116 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1117
1118TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1119 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1120 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1121 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1122
1123PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1124 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1125
10906672 1126
aa097c4c
NM
1127Exim version 4.75
1128-----------------
1129
4c9ef03a 1130NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1131 Bugzilla 1073
1132
7f3d9eff
TF
1133TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1134 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1135 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1136
159f52d2
TF
1137TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1138 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1139
0cc9542a
PP
1140PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1141 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1142 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1143
f7274286
PP
1144PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1145 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1146
7b797365
PP
1147PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1148 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1149
caacae52
NM
1150NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1151 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1152
09dcaba9
NM
1153NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1154 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1155
bc19a55b
PP
1156PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1157 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1158
bd4c9759
NM
1159NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1160 Fixes bug 943.
1161
b72aab72
PP
1162PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1163 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1164
2fe76745
PP
1165PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1166 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1167
76aa570c
PP
1168PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1169 SQL string expansion failure details.
1170 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1171
f1e5fef5
PP
1172PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1173 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1174
4d805ee9
PP
1175PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1176 extern declarations in function scope.
1177 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1178
cd59ab18
PP
1179PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1180 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1181 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1182 a kernel bug).
1183
332f5cf3
PP
1184PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1185 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1186
29cfeb94
PP
1187PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1188 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1189
660242ad
PP
1190PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1191 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1192
bc4bc4c5
PP
1193PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1194 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1195
2e64baa9
NM
1196NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1197 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1198 Dennis Davis.
1199
bddd7526
PP
1200PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
1201
6bac1a9a
PP
1202PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1203
552193f0
NM
1204NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1205 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1206
1b587e48
TF
1207TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1208 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1209
aa097c4c 1210
8c07b69f
TF
1211Exim version 4.74
1212-----------------
1213
1214TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1215 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1216
c0ea85ab
TF
1217TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1218 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1219
0761d44e
TF
1220TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1221
0a349494
PP
1222DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1223 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1224 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1225
1226PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1227 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1228 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1229
fea24b2e
PP
1230PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1231 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1232 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1233 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1234
6545de78
PP
1235PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1236 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1237 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1238 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1239
1670ef10
PP
1240PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1241 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1242 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1243 arbitrary files.
1244
c0886197
PP
1245PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1246 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1247
b7487bce
PP
1248PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1249 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1250 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1251 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1252 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1253
8c07b69f 1254
97fd1e48 1255Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1256-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1257
1258PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1259 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1260 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1261
6901c596
PP
1262PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1263 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1264
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1265JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1266
77bb000f
PP
1267PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1268
a29e5231
PP
1269PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1270
ec5a0394 1271PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1272
55c75993
PP
1273PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1274
453a6645 1275PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1276 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1277 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1278 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1279
8544e77a
PP
1280PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1281 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1282 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1283 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1284 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1285
83e029d5
PP
1286PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1287
ed7f7860
PP
1288PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1289
7d9f747b
PP
1290PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1291
4b2241d2
PP
1292PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1293
10385c15
PP
1294PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1295
dbc4b90d
PP
1296PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1297
532be449
PP
1298PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1299
6a8de854 1300PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1301 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1302 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1303
5dc43717
JJ
1304JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1305
1306JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1307 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1308
3346ab01
PP
1309PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1310 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1311
491fab4c
PP
1312PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1313 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1314 Notification from John Horne.
1315
13eb9497
PP
1316PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1317 compatible.
1318
1319PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1320 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1321 it normally works.
1322
7f36d675
DW
1323DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1324 access.
1325
c1d94452
DW
1326DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1327 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1328 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1329
e2f5dc15
DW
1330DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1331 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1332 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1333 configuration file.
1334
cd25e41d
DW
1335DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1336 option (effectively making it always true).
1337
261dc43e
DW
1338DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1339 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1340
fa32850b
DW
1341DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1342 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1343
79d4bc3d
PP
1344PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1345 run-time user, instead of root.
1346
43236f35 1347PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1348 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1349
fb08281f
DW
1350DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1351 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1352 arguments.
3346ab01 1353
74935b98
DW
1354DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1355 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1356 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1357
90b6341f
DW
1358DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1359
57730b52
ML
1360NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1361
66581d1e 1362
465e92cf
JJ
1363Exim version 4.72
1364-----------------
1365
453a6645
PP
1366JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1367 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1368 typos
465e92cf 1369
453a6645
PP
1370JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1371 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1372 (Finput)
edae0343 1373
9bd3e22c
NM
1374NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1375 Patch from Alain Williams
1376
bb576ff7
NM
1377NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1378
5a1a5845
NM
1379NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1380 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1381
981a9fad
NM
1382NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1383 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1384
7fc497ee
NM
1385NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1386
1a41defa
JJ
1387JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1388
a466095c 1389NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1390 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1391
94a6bd0b
NM
1392TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1393
1394TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1395
1396MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1397 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1398 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1399
c1b141a8
NM
1400NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1401 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1402
b26eacf1 1403NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1404 Patch by Simon Arlott
1405
179c5980 1406PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1407 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1408
9bd3e22c 1409
7c6d71af
NM
1410Exim version 4.71
1411-----------------
1412
7d9f747b 1413TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1414
f013fb92
NM
1415NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1416
0eb8eedd
NM
1417NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1418
663ee6d9
NM
1419NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1420
177ebd9b
NM
1421NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1422
7c6d71af 1423
210f147e
NM
1424Exim version 4.70
1425-----------------
1426
cdd3bb85 1427TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1428 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1429
1430TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1431 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1432 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1433
1434TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1435 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1436 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1437
1438TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1439 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1440
210f147e
NM
1441NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1442 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1443 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1444 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1445
deafd5b3
NM
1446NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1447 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1448 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1449
089793a4
TF
1450TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1451
5f16ca82
TF
1452TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1453
dae9d94e 1454NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1455 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1456
7d9f747b 1457NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1458
06864c44
TF
1459TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1460 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1461 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1462 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1463
65a7d8c3 1464NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1465 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1466
23510047 1467TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1468
7d9f747b 1469NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1470
7d8eec3a 1471NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1472 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1473
89dec7b6
TF
1474TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1475 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1476
a99de90c
TF
1477TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1478 that they are available at delivery time.
1479
e2803e40
TF
1480TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1481
7199e1ee
TF
1482TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1483 incoming_port log selectors.
1484
e276e04b
TF
1485TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1486 setting expands to an empty string.
1487
ce552449 1488NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1489 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1490
e765a0f1 1491NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1492 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1493
4f054c63 1494NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1495 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1496
7d9f747b
PP
1497NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1498 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1499
7d9f747b
PP
1500NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1501 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1502
b52bc06e 1503NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1504 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1505
447de4b0
NM
1506NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1507
4c69d561 1508NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1509 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1510
d5c39246 1511NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1512 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1513
0b23848a
TK
1514TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1515
8f3414a1 1516NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1517 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1518
fb6f955d
NM
1519NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1520
1521NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1522
7d9f747b
PP
1523NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1524 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1525
7d9f747b
PP
1526NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1527 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1528
7d9f747b
PP
1529NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1530 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1531
7d9f747b
PP
1532NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1533 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1534
7d9f747b
PP
1535NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1536 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1537
7d9f747b
PP
1538NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1539 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1540
7d9f747b
PP
1541NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1542 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1543
7d9f747b 1544NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1545 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1546
7d9f747b 1547NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1548
7d9f747b
PP
1549NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1550 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1551
7d9f747b 1552NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1553
7d9f747b 1554NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1555
7d9f747b 1556NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1557
7d9f747b 1558NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1559
17792b53 1560NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1561 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1562
7d9f747b
PP
1563NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1564 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1565
91576cec 1566NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1567 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1568
7d9f747b
PP
1569NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1570 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1571
7d9f747b 1572NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1573
7d9f747b 1574NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1575
7d9f747b 1576NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1577
7d9f747b 1578NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1579
deafd5b3 1580
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NM
1581Exim version 4.69
1582-----------------
1583
4b3504d0
TK
1584TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1585 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1586 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1587
1588 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1589 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1590 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1591 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1592 build errors in sieve.c.
1593
81ea09ca
NM
1594NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1595 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1596 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1597
f13cddcb
SC
1598SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1599
7d9f747b 1600NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1601
7d9f747b 1602NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1603
7d9f747b 1604NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
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1605
1606
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1607Exim version 4.68
1608-----------------
1609
1610PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1611
6a3bceb1
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1612PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1613 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1614 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1615 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1616 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1617 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1618 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1619 for iplsearch lookups.
1620
1621 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1622 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1623 previously such lookups could never work.
1624
1625 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1626 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1627 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1628
2e30fa9d
TK
1629TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1630 version.
1631
0806a9c5
MH
1632MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1633 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1634 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1635 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1636 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1637 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1638
ae276964
TK
1639TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1640 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1641
0f2cbd1b
MH
1642MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1643 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1644 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1645 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1646 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1647 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1648
2b85bce7
PH
1649PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1650 local_scan API.
1651
93655c46
PH
1652PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1653
6c512171
PH
1654PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1655 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1656 encrypted.
1657
1658PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1659 by clients under certain conditions.
1660
aa6dc513
PH
1661PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1662 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1663
a96603a0
PH
1664PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1665
8f240103
PH
1666PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1667 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1668
1669PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1670
d677b2f2
PH
1671PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1672
d52120f2
PH
1673PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1674
64f2600a
PH
1675PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1676 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1677
8669f003
PH
1678PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1679
a4dc33a8
PH
1680PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1681 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1682
d6a60c0f
PH
1683PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1684
8f128379
PH
1685PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1686
8932dffe
PH
1687PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1688 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1689 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1690 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1691
ddea74fa 1692PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
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PH
1693 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1694 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1695
ddea74fa 1696PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
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PH
1697 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1698
ddea74fa
PH
1699PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1700
ce9f225c
PH
1701PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1702
19897d52
PH
1703PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1704
bc64a74d
PH
1705PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1706 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1707 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1708
eb4c0de6 1709
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PH
1710Exim version 4.67
1711-----------------
1712
22ad45c9
MH
1713MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1714 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1715 Jan Srzednicki.
1716
b4ed4da0
PH
1717PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1718 issue a MAIL command.
1719
431b7361
PH
1720PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1721
1722 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1723
1724 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1725 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1726 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1727 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1728 item. This has been fixed.
1729
1730PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1731 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1732
83da1223
PH
1733PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1734 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1735
54fc8428
PH
1736PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1737 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1738 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1739
34c5e8dd
SC
1740SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1741
bbe15da8
PH
1742PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1743 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1744 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1745 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1746 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1747
0e8a9471
MH
1748MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1749 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1750 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1751
f0872424
PH
1752PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1753 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1754 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1755 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1756
b01dd148
PH
1757PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1758
6bf342e1
PH
1759PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1760
273f34d0
PH
1761PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1762 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1763 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1764 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1765 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1766
cf8b11a5
PH
1767PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1768
41c7c167
PH
1769PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1770 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1771 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1772 values).
1773
9c57cbc0
PH
1774PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1775
f3f065bb
PH
1776PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1777
047bdd8c
PH
1778PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1779
0ce9abe6
PH
1780PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1781
0e22dfd1
PH
1782PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1783
4c590bd1
PH
1784PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1785 no_callout_flush is set.
1786
09945f1e
PH
1787PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1788 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1789 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1790 fixed.
1791
c51b8e75
PH
1792PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1793
e28326d8
PH
1794PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1795 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1796 other ACL rejections are.
1797
75b1493f
PH
1798PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1799 with slight modification.
1800
7c5214ec
PH
1801PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1802 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1803
4311097e
PH
1804PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1805 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1806 connection.
1807
29f89cad
PH
1808PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1809 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1810
5e687460
SC
1811SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1812
c3611384
PH
1813PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1814 expansion side effects.
1815
5a11a7b4
PH
1816PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1817 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1818 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1819 be the same.
1820
0e20aff9
MH
1821MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1822 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1823 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1824
ca86f471
PH
1825PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1826 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1827 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1828 were accidentally chopped off.
1829
a14e5636
PH
1830PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1831 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1832 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1833 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1834 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1835 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1836 pipelining has not been advertised.
1837
ec95d1a6
PH
1838PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1839
42855d71
PH
1840PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1841 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1842 This has been fixed.
1843
57c2c631
PH
1844PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1845 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1846 reported on Solaris.
1847
58c01c94
PH
1848PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1849 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1850 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1851 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1852 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1853 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1854 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1855
dee5a20a
PH
1856PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1857 cpus.
1858
d2ee6114
PH
1859PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1860
b2d5182b
PH
1861PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1862
79749a79
PH
1863PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1864 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
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PH
1865 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1866 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1867 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1868 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1869
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PH
1870PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1871 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1872 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1873 host_all_ignored option.
1874
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1875PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1876 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1877 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1878 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1879 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1880 is what is supposed to happen).
1881
ebeaf996
PH
1882PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1883 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1884 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1885 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1886 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1887 uses the Exim user.
1888
2679d413
PH
1889PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1890 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1891 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1892 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1893 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1894 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1895 users.
1896
84024b72
PH
1897PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1898
8005d38e
SC
1899SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1900 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1901 (Jez Hancock).
1902 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1903 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1904
3298c6c6
SC
1905SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1906
a43a27c5
PH
1907PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1908
58eb016e 1909PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
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1910 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1911 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1912 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1913 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1914 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1915 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1916 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1917 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
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1918 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1919 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1920
b43a74ea
PH
1921PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1922 advertised in response to EHLO.
1923
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1926-----------------
1927
1928PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1929 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1930
1931 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1932 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1933
1934 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1935 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1936 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1937
1938 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1939 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1940 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1941 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1942 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1943
1944
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1946-----------------
1947
1948TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1949 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1950 versions. (#438)
1951
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1952MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1953 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1954 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1955
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1956PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1957 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1958 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1959 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1960 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1961 rather than extend the field.
1962
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1964Exim version 4.64
1965-----------------
aa41d2de 1966
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1967TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1968 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1969 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1970 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1971 these files.
1972
1973TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1974 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1975 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1976
1977TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1978 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1979 hence the _LINUX specificness.
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1980
1981TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1982 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1983 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1984 in the field name.
1985
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1986PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1987 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1988 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1989 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1990 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1991 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1992 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1993 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1994 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1995 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1996 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1997
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1998PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1999 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2000
2001PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2002 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2003 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2004 ignores EPIPE as well.
2005
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2006PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2007 (quoted-printable decoding).
2008
cc2ed8f7 2009PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2010 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2011
ddfcd446
PH
2012PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2013
d45b1de8
PH
2014PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2015
2016PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2017
38a0a95f 2018PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2019 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2020
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JJ
2021JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2022 in 4.64-PH/09.
2023
2024JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2025 miscellaneous code fixes
2026
6ea85e9a
PH
2027PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2028 rejections.
2029
26da7e20
PH
2030PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2031 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2032 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2033 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2034 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2035 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2036 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2037 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2038
14aa5a05 2039PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2040 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2041 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2042 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2043 function.
2044 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2045 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2046 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2047 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2048 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2049 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2050 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2051 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2052 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2053
ff75a1f7
PH
2054PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2055 decoding.
2056
e6f6568e
PH
2057PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2058 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2059 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2060 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2061 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2062 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2063 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2064 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2065
d6f6e0dc
PH
2066PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2067 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2068 list.
2069
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PH
2070PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2071 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2072 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2073 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2074 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2075 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2076 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2077 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2078 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2079 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2080 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2081 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2082 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2083
08955dd3
PH
2084PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2085 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2086 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2087 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2088 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2089 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2090 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2091
1eccaa59
PH
2092PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2093 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2094 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2095 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2096 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2097 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2098 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2099 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2100 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2101 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2102
602e59e5
PH
2103PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2104 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2105 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2106 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2107 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2108
411ef850
PH
2109PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2110 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2111 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2112 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2113 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2114 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2115 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2116
7befa435
PH
2117PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2118 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2119 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2120 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2121 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2122 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2123 been verified.
2124
48da4259 2125PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2126 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2127 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2128 and authorization.)
2129
48da4259
PH
2130PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2131 if any retry times were supplied.
2132
d1d5595c
PH
2133PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2134 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2135 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2136
0ef732d9
PH
2137PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2138
328895cc
PH
2139PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2140
fd700877
PH
2141PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2142 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2143 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2144 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2145 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2146 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2147
8dce1a6f
PH
2148PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2149 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2150
17af4a17
PH
2151PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2152 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2153 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2154
2155PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2156 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2157 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2158 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2159 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2160 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2161 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2162 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2163 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2164
2165 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2166 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2167 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2168 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2169 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2170 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2171 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2172 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2173 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2174
2175 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2176 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2177 hammering the server.
2178
c1114884
PH
2179PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2180 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2181
7a0743eb
PH
2182PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2183
0d85fa3f
PH
2184PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2185 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2186 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2187
1bf43b78
PH
2188PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2189 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2190 one case where this was not true.
2191
520de300
PH
2192PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2193 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2194 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2195 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2196 fails.
2197
48c7f9e2
PH
2198PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2199 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2200 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2201 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2202 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2203 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2204 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2205 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2206 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2207 smtp transport.
2208
99ea1c86
PH
2209PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2210 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2211 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2212 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2213
a2042e78
PH
2214PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2215 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2216
4fbcfc2e
PH
2217PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2218 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2219 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2220
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PH
2221PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2222
af561417
PH
2223PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2224
3cc66b45
PH
2225PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2226
194cc0e4
PH
2227PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2228 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2229 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2230 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2231
a401ddaa
PH
2232PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2233 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2234
4e88a19f
PH
2235PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2236 be meaningful with "accept".
2237
d7d7b289
SC
2238SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2239 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2240
2241SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2242 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2243 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2244
2245SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2246 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2247 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2248 there is data to show.
2249 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2250
2251SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2252 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2253 as well as the number of messages.
2254
2255SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2256 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2257 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2258
2259SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2260 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2261 have a flag are now skipped.
2262
2263SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2264 Added the -emptyok flag.
2265
2266SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2267 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2268
0ea2a468
JJ
2269JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2270 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2271 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2272
2273JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2274 match 4.64-PH/13
2275
2276JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2277 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2278
2279JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2280
2281JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2282 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2283
8a10f5a4
PH
2284PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2285
30e18802
PH
2286PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2287 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2288 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2289 contravention of the specifications.
2290
55728a4f
PH
2291PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2292 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2293 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2294
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PH
2295PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2296 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2297 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2298
87054a31
PH
2299PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2300
ea2c01d2
MH
2301MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2302 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2303 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2304 some point in the past.
2305
e4fa6968
PH
2306PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2307 transport during callout processing was broken.
2308
56f5d9bd
PH
2309PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2310 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2311
922e1c28
PH
2312PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2313 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2314
21eb6e72
PH
2315PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2316 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2317
a0540757
PH
2318PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2319
944e9e9c 2320
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2322-----------------
2323
2324SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2325 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2326
2327SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2328 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2329 there is data to show.
2330 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2331
2332SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2333 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2334
2b965a65
TF
2335TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2336 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2337
45b91596
PH
2338TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2339 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2340
c59f5781
TF
2341TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2342 submissions from trusted users.
2343
90fc3069
TF
2344TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2345 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2346
6083aca0
TF
2347TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2348 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2349 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2350 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2351 there is now a framework to start from.
2352
765b530f
PH
2353PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2354 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2355 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2356
4e167a8c
PH
2357PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2358
4608d683
PH
2359PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2360
b8dc3e4a
PH
2361PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2362
5418e93b
PH
2363PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2364 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2365 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2366
b4a9bda2
PH
2367PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2368 libradius.
2369
45b91596
PH
2370PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2371 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2372 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2373
5547e2c5
PH
2374PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2375 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2376 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2377 its arguments.
2378
dbcef0ea
PH
2379PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2380 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2381 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2382 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2383 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2384
25257489
PH
2385PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2386 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2387
c816d124
PH
2388PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2389
a9ccd69a
PH
2390PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2391 operations in malware.c.
2392
75fa1910
PH
2393PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2394 signatures.
2395
a7d7aa58
PH
2396PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2397 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2398 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2399 all.
2400
42119b09
PH
2401PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2402 statements to "add_header".
2403
41609df5
PH
2404PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2405 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2406
a5bd321b
PH
2407PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2408 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2409 latter.
2410
e85a7ad5 2411PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2412 so that it is now:
2413
e85a7ad5
PH
2414 ${if or { \
2415 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2416 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2417 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2418 }{no}{yes}}
2419
e85a7ad5
PH
2420 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2421 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2422
d8fe1c03
PH
2423PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2424 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2425
16282d2b
PH
2426PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2427 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2428 any possible encoding problems.
2429
35d40a98
PH
2430PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2431 but not after initializing Perl.
2432
034d99ab
PH
2433PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2434 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2435 apparently, which is not desirable.
2436
6ec97b1b
PH
2437PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2438 queries.
2439
e22ca4ac
JJ
2440JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2441 --not options
2442
2443JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2444
33d73e3b
PH
2445PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2446 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2447 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2448 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2449
9ecb03f3
PH
2450PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2451 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2452 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2453
084efe8d
PH
2454PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2455 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2456 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2457 0.12.
2458
366fc9f0
PH
2459PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2460 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2461 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2462 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2463 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2464
c59f5781 2465
c887c79e
TF
2466Exim version 4.62
2467-----------------
2468
2469TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2470 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2471
1cce3af8
PH
2472PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2473 patch).
2474
afb3eaaf
PH
2475PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2476 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2477 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2478 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2479 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2480 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2481 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2482 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2483 451 error is used.
2484
e173618b
PH
2485PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2486
dd16e114
PH
2487PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2488 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2489 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2490
f7fd3850
PH
2491PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2492 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2493 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2494 odd errors.
2495
d87df92c
PH
2496PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2497 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2498
7e9f683d
PH
2499PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2500 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2501 option (which defaults to 0600).
2502
bfad5236
PH
2503PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2504
01c490df
PH
2505PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2506 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2507 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2508 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2509 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2510 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2511 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2512
d6629cdc
PH
2513PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2514
1cce3af8 2515
214e2000
PH
2516Exim version 4.61
2517-----------------
2518
2519PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2520 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2521 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2522 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2523 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2524 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2525 addresses as local.
2526
f9daeae0
PH
2527PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2528 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2529
7e66e54d
PH
2530PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2531
c8ea1597
PH
2532PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2533 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2534 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2535 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2536 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2537 grumble.
2538
911f6fde
PH
2539PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2540 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2541
47ca6d6c
PH
2542PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2543 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2544 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2545 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2546 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2547
ed0e9820
PH
2548PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2549 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2550 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2551 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2552
eff37e47
PH
2553PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2554 be the same on different OS.
2555
1921d2ea
PH
2556PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2557 testing.
2558
b3f69ca8
JJ
2559JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2560 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2561
2562JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2563 in 4.61-PH/06
2564
424a1c63
PH
2565PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2566 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2567 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2568 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2569 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2570 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2571 bounce message.
2572
7a100415
PH
2573PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2574 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2575 when Exim was called.
2576
19b9dc85
PH
2577PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2578 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2579
309bd837
PH
2580PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2581 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2582 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2583 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2584
59e82a2a
PH
2585PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2586 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2587 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2588 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2589 changes:
2590
2591 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2592 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2593 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2594
2595 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2596 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2597 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2598
9edc04ce
PH
2599PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2600 feature).
2601
1349e1e5
PH
2602PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2603 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2604 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2605 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2606 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2607 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2608 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2609 values from the SRV records were lost.
2610
ea49d0e1
PH
2611PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2612 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2613 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2614
064a94c9
PH
2615PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2616 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2617 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2618
727071f8
PH
2619PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2620 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2621 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2622 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2623 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2624 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2625 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2626 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2627 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2628 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2629
f78eb7c6
PH
2630PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2631 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2632 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2633
21c28500
PH
2634PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2635 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2636
2637PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2638 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2639 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2640 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2641 is given.
2642
1688f43b
PH
2643PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2644 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2645 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2646
2647PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2648 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2649 PH/23 above applies.
2650
9675b384
PH
2651PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2652 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2653 (for which there is an explicit test).
2654
6a3f1455
PH
2655PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2656
dac79d3e
PH
2657PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2658 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2659 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2660 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2661 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2662
5977a0b3
PH
2663PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2664 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2665 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2666 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2667
c91535f3
PH
2668PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2669 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2670 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2671
0d46a8c8
PH
2672PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2673
278c6e6c
PH
2674PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2675
2cbb4081
PH
2676PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2677 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2678 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2679
3eef829e
PH
2680PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2681 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2682 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2683 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2684 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2685
1ab95fa6
PH
2686PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2687 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2688 the message gets confusing).
2689
230205fc
PH
2690PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2691 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2692 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2693 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2694
75e0e026
PH
2695PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2696 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2697 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2698 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2699 same order.
2700
2701PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2702 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2703 the different processes.
2704
145396a6
PH
2705PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2706
3cd34f13
PH
2707PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2708
11121d3d
JJ
2709JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2710 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2711
2712JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2713 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2714
2715JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2716 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2717 messages matching specified criteria.
2718
8def5aaf
PH
2719PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2720
929ba01c
PH
2721PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2722 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2723
2632889e
PH
2724PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2725 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2726 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2727 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2728 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2729 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2730 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2731 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2732 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2733 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2734
944a9c55
PH
2735PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2736 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2737 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2738
4a23603b
PH
2739PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2740
4730f942
PH
2741PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2742 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2743 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2744 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2745 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2746 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2747 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2748 the variable.
2749
30dba1e6
PH
2750PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2751 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2752
382afc6b
PH
2753PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2754
a86229cf
PH
2755PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2756
50c99ba6
PH
2757PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2758
d35e429d
PH
2759PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2760 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2761 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2762 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2763 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2764 size of the count of files.
2765
f90d018c
PH
2766PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2767
75def545
PH
2768PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2769 used in LMTP mode:
2770
2771 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2772 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2773 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2774 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2775
2776 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2777 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2778 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2779
2780PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2781 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2782 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2783 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2784 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2785
c46782ef
PH
2786PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2787 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2788
71fafd95
PH
2789PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2790 will now be deprecated.
2791
2c5db4fd
PH
2792PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2793
9cf6b11a
JJ
2794JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2795 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2796 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2797
2798JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2799 with very large, slow to parse queues
2800
2801JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2802
2803JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2804
898d150f
PH
2805PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2806 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2807 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2808 SMTP output lines.
2809
46218253
PH
2810PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2811 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2812 Sieve code now uses this.
2813
e97957bc
PH
2814PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2815 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2816
81e509d7
PH
2817PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2818 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2819
3d240ff7
PH
2820PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2821
b37c4101
PH
2822PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2823 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2824 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2825 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2826 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2827
79378e0f
PH
2828PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2829 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2830 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2831 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2832
e49c7bb4
PH
2833PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2834
d114ec46
PH
2835PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2836
f3d7df6c
PH
2837PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2838 is preferred over IPv4.
2839
715ab376
PH
2840PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2841 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2842 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2843 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2844 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2845 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2846 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2847
6b31b150
PH
2848PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2849 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2850 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2851
2852PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2853
d515a917
PH
2854PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2855 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2856 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2857 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2858 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2859 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2860 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2861 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2862 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2863 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2864 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2865
9b8fadde
PH
2866PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2867 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2868 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2869
214e2000 2870
5de37277
PH
2871Exim version 4.60
2872-----------------
2873
cc38ddbf
PH
2874PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2875
2876 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2877 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2878
2879 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2880 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2881 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2882
72fdd6ae
PH
2883PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2884
2885 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2886 not a single digit.
2887
2888 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2889 string.
2890
2891 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2892 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2893 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2894 silly things.
2895
2896 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2897 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2898
2899 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2900 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2901
cb741023
PH
2902PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2903 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2904 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2905
f174f16e
PH
2906PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2907 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2908
c25242d7
PH
2909PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2910 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2911
2912 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2913
2914 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2915 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2916 this:
2917
2918 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2919
82c19f95
PH
2920PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2921 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2922 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2923 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2924 identical. For example:
2925
2926 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2927
2928 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2929 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2930 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2931
d7ffbc12
PH
2932PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2933 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2934 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2935 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2936
9f526266
PH
2937PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2938 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2939 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2940 message.
2941
87fcc8b9
PH
2942PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2943
2944 o fixes some comments
2945 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2946 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2947 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2948 and documents the missing references header update
2949
2950 and most important:
2951
2952 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2953 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2954 result)
2955
456682f5
PH
2956PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2957 Electronic Mail") by including:
2958
2959 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2960
2961 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2962 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2963 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2964 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2965 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2966
2967 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2968
2969 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2970
2971 The auto-replied keyword:
2972
2973 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2974 message by an automatic process,
2975
2976 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2977
2978 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2979 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2980
2981 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2982 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2983 other messages.
2984
3e46c1aa
PH
2985PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2986 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2987
49826d12
PH
2988PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2989
eba0c039
PH
2990PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2991 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2992 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2993
a0d6ba8a
PH
2994PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2995 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2996 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2997
f0917727
PH
2998PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2999 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3000 and treats the condition as false.
3001
096fee00
PH
3002PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3003
024bd3c2
PH
3004PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3005 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3006 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3007 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3008 not changing the active code.
3009
3010 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3011 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3012
3013 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3014 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3015
df199fec
PH
3016PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3017 (Bugzilla #53).
3018
d27f1df3
PH
3019PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3020 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3021 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3022 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3023 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3024 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3025 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3026 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3027 the text comparison.
3028
96776534
PH
3029PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3030 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3031 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3032 The same fix has been applied.
3033
5de37277 3034
9a799bc0
PH
3035Exim version 4.54
3036-----------------
3037
3038PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3039 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3040 It now does.
3041
99a4b039
PH
3042PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3043 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3044
3045PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3046
4b233853
PH
3047PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3048 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3049 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3050 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3051 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3052
8857ccfd
PH
3053TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3054 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3055 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3056 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3057 or /domain=).
3058
433a2980
PH
3059PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3060 testing suite.
3061
3e46c1aa 3062
9a799bc0 3063
e3a311ba
TK
3064Exim version 4.53
3065-----------------
3066
3067TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3068 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3069
13b685f9
PH
3070PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3071
395ff96d
PH
3072PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3073
5b68f6e4
PH
3074PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3075 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3076 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3077
1ab52c69
PH
3078PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3079 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3080 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3081
b07e6aa3
PH
3082PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3083 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3084 operating systems.
3085
254e032f
PH
3086PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3087 ${stat: expansion item.
3088
3af76a81
PH
3089PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3090 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3091
2548ba04
PH
3092PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3093 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3094 file for comments.
3095
b6c6011d
PH
3096PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3097
cf39cf57
PH
3098PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3099 setting.
3100
f1513293
PH
3101PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3102 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3103
727549a4
PH
3104TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3105
af46795e
PH
3106PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3107 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3108 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3109 the end of the subprocess.
3110
d7b47fd0
PH
3111PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3112 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3113 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3114 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3115 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3116
ee744174
JJ
3117JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3118
b582ab87
PH
3119TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3120
41a13e0a
PH
3121PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3122 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3123
f625cc5a
PH
3124PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3125
3126PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3127
21f7af35
PH
3128PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3129 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3130 HP-UX compiler.
3131
31480e42
PH
3132PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3133
2d280592
PH
3134PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3135 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3136 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3137
7cd1141b
PH
3138PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3139 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3140
3141PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3142 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3143
750af86e
PH
3144PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3145 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3146
3147 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3148 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3149
3150 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3151 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3152 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3153 contributed by a Radius user.
3154
3155PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3156 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3157
4304270b
TK
3158TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3159 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3160
750af86e
PH
3161PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3162 available.
3163
64ffc24f
PH
3164PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3165 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3166 received.
3167
5dd9625b
PH
3168PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3169 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3170 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3171 header lines when this was not necessary.
3172
5591031b
PH
3173PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3174
ba18e66a
PH
3175PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3176 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3177 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3178 exists".
3179
9cec981f
PH
3180PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3181 -bV or -d is used.
3182
aa2b5c79
PH
3183PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3184 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3185 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3186 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3187
48a53b7f
PH
3188PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3189
1c59d63b
PH
3190PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3191
671012da
TK
3192TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3193
1509d3a8
PH
3194PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3195
3196PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3197 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3198 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3199 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3200 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3201 settings.
3202
3203PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3204
2fe1a124
PH
3205PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3206 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3207 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3208 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3209 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3210 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3211 which is clearly wrong.
3212
8800895a
PH
3213PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3214
ccfdb010
PH
3215PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3216 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3217 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3218 subsequently added.
3219
1130bfb0
PH
3220PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3221 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3222
ebcb507f
PH
3223PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3224
c35e155c
PH
3225PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3226 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3227
95d1f782
PH
3228PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3229 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3230
fd6de02e
PH
3231PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3232 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3233
58de37c5
PH
3234PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3235 recipients, not senders.
3236
261cf466
TF
3237TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3238 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3239
3ee512ff
PH
3240PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3241
e08c430f
PH
3242PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3243
bef5a11f
PH
3244PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3245 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3246 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3247 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3248
7546de58
TF
3249TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3250
e5d5a95f
TF
3251TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3252 clock is set back in time.
3253
2e88a017
TF
3254TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3255 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3256
a5f65aa4
TF
3257TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3258 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3259
e7726cbf
PH
3260PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3261 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3262 (see PH/47 above).
3263
a7fdad5b
TF
3264TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3265 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3266 header rewrites.
3267
6af56900
PH
3268PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3269 type ("H").
3270
0925ede6
PH
3271PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3272
66afa403
TF
3273TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3274 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3275 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3276
0154e85a
TF
3277TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3278 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3279 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3280 helo verification defer as a failure.
3281
16f12c76
PH
3282PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3283 actual error message.
3284
bbe902f0 3285
e5a9dba6
PH
3286Exim version 4.52
3287-----------------
3288
3289TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3290
22c3b60b
PH
3291PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3292 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3293 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3294 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3295
06a9b4b5
PH
3296TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3297
c1ac6996
PH
3298PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3299 can still be requested.
3300
9c7a242c
PH
3301PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3302 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3303 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3304 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3305
87ba3f5f
PH
3306TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3307 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3308 circumstances, but probably never did.
3309
3310PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3311 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3312 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3313 in the header line.
3314
29aba418
TF
3315TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3316
fe0dab11
TF
3317TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3318 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3319
11d337a4
TK
3320TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3321
3322TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3323
415c8f3b
PH
3324PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3325 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3326 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3327 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3328 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3329 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3330
958541e9
PH
3331PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3332 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3333 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3334 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3335 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3336 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3337
c206415f
TK
3338TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3339 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3340
2a4be8f9
PH
3341PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3342 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3343
1cba11c5
SC
3344SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3345 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3346
3347SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3348
3349SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3350
3351SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3352
3353SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3354
3355SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3356
3357SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3358
1005d00e
TK
3359TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3360
3361TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3362 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3363 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3364
3365TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3366 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3367 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3368 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3369
9b4768fa
PH
3370PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3371 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3372 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3373
3374PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3375 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3376 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3377 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3378
0d7eb84a
PH
3379PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3380 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3381 to be made).
3382
3383PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3384 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3385 should work with maildirs and everything.
3386
40727bee
TK
3387TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3388 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3389
554d2369
TF
3390TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3391 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3392
1f922db1
PH
3393PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3394 function for BDB 4.3.
3395
ef213c3b
PH
3396PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3397
8ac170f3
PH
3398PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3399 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3400 involved.
3401
b1c749bb
PH
3402PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3403 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3404 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3405 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3406 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3407 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3408
4aac9b49
PH
3409PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3410 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3411 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3412 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3413 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3414 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3415 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3416 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3417
294520c8
TK
3418TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3419 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3420 details.
3421
5bd022fe
PH
3422PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3423 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3424
90e9ce59
PH
3425PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3426 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3427 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3428 test. It is now used for both.
3429
5ea81592
PH
3430PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3431 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3432 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3433 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3434 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3435 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3436
c6c2dc1d
PH
3437PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3438 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3439 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3440 string_vformat().
3441
fffffe4c
PH
3442PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3443 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3444 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3445
9a26b6b2
PH
3446PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3447 experimental DomainKeys support:
3448
3449 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3450 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3451 the control was given.
3452
3453 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3454
4aee0225
PH
3455PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3456
32d668a5
PH
3457PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3458
8187c3f3
PH
3459PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3460 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3461 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3462 db.h files).
3463
ff790e47 3464PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3465 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3466 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3467 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3468 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3469 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3470 course.
ff790e47 3471
5417f6d1
PH
3472PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3473 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3474 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3475 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3476 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3477 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3478
59cf8544
PH
3479PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3480 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3481 do -d+all out of habit.
3482
e7ad8a65
PH
3483PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3484 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3485 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3486
ade42478
PH
3487PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3488 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3489 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3490 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3491 record types that Exim uses.
3492
182ad5cf
PH
3493PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3494 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3495 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3496 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3497 non-existent file that was broken.
3498
b0d9fc80
TK
3499TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3500 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3501
3502TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3503 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3504 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3505
3506TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3507
47c7a64a
PH
3508PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3509 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3510 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3511 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3512 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3513 same time.
3514
a388bce4
SC
3515SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3516 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3517 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3518 at a slight CPU cost.
3519
3520SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3521 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3522
3523SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3524 by Marc Sherman.
3525
0793e4ed
SC
3526SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3527
c58b88df
PH
3528PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3529 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3530
e7ad8a65 3531
7982096b
PH
3532Exim version 4.51
3533-----------------
3534
1a46a8c5
PH
3535TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3536 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3537
2f079f46 3538TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3539
3540TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3541
3542PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3543 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3544
3545PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3546 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3547 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3548 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3549 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3550 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3551 file.
3552
3553PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3554 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3555 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3556 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3557 these two options.
3558
3559PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3560 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3561 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3562 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3563 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3564 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3565 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3566 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3567
3568PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3569 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3570
3571PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3572 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3573 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3574 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3575 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3576 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3577
3578PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3579 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3580 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3581 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3582
3583PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3584 Finch).
3585
3586PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3587 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3588
49c2d5ea
PH
3589PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3590 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3591 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3592 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3593 message.
49c2d5ea 3594
bf759a8b
PH
3595PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3596
83364d30
PH
3597PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3598 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3599
7999bbd7
PH
3600PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3601 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3602 to what was transported.)
3603
7dbf77c9
PH
3604TF/01 Added $received_time.
3605
74e0617f
PH
3606PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3607 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3608 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3609 spamd_address settings.
3610
2f079f46
PH
3611PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3612 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3613 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3614 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3615 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3616
8c841523
PH
3617PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3618
7766a4f0
PH
3619PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3620 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3621 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3622 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3623 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3624
8b417f2c
PH
3625PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3626 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3627
901f42cb
PH
3628PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3629 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3630 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3631 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3632 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3633 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3634 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3635 for failure.
3636
f9b9210e
PH
3637PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3638 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3639 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3640 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3641 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3642 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3643 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3644 "input=".
3645
54cdb463
PH
3646PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3647
cf00dad6
PH
3648PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3649 driver and ACL definitions.
3650
acb1b346
PH
3651PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3652 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3653
c5ddb310
PH
3654PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3655 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3656 understands it better than I do:
3657
3658 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3659 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3660
3661 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3662 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3663 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3664 => three warnings about OTP not working
3665 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3666
3667 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3668 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3669 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3670 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3671 for each call.)
3672 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3673 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3674
3675 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3676 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3677 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3678
31619da6
PH
3679PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3680 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3681 specified.
3682
bebaf0fc
PH
3683PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3684 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3685 "Linux".
3686
475fe28a
PH
3687PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3688 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3689 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3690
3691 warn !verify = sender
3692 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3693
3694 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3695 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3696
7e8bec7a
PH
3697PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3698
3699 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3700 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3701
3702 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3703 nomenclature these days.)
3704
e4a89c47
PH
3705PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3706 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3707
5ca2a9a1
PH
3708PH/30 In these circumstances:
3709 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3710 . First host does not offer TLS;
3711 . First host accepts first address;
3712 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3713 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3714 . Second host accepts second address.
3715 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3716 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3717 address.
7e8bec7a 3718
c688b954
PH
3719PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3720 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3721 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3722 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3723 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3724
fed77020
PH
3725PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3726 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3727
7fe1560f
PH
3728PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3729 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3730
ebb6e6d5
PH
3731PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3732 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3733 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3734
9c4e8f60
PH
3735PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3736 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3737 overlooked.
3738
3739PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3740
d7174846
PH
3741PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3742 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3743 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3744 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3745 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3746 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3747 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3748
3749 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3750 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3751 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3752 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3753 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3754
3755 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3756 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3757 routed further.
3758
cfe75fc3
PH
3759PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3760 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3761 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3762 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3763 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3764 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3765
be22d70e
PH
3766PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3767
0612b098
PH
3768PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3769 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3770 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3771 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3772 printable escape sequences.
3773
2e0c1448
PH
3774PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3775 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3776 body only.
3777
447d236c
PH
3778PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3779 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3780 are as follows:
3781
3782 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3783 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3784 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3785 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3786 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3787
3788 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3789 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3790 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3791
d20976dc
PH
3792PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3793
f656d135
PH
3794PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3795 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3796 play with."
3797
2e2a30b4
PH
3798PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3799 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3800 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3801 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3802 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3803 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3804 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3805 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3806 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3807 the log output.
3808
9176e9f0
PH
3809PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3810 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3811 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3812 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3813 "make".
3814
7982096b 3815
bbe902f0
PH
3816A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3817----------------------------------------
3818
3819Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3820changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3821needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3822in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3823that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3824release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3825from 4.43.
3826
3827I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
38284.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3829those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3830historical information.
3831
3832
f7b63901 3833Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3834-----------------
3835
5fe762f6
PH
3836 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3837
139059f6 3838 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3839 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3840
7086e875
PH
3841 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3842 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3843 place.
3844
35af9f61
PH
3845 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3846 filter fails to execute.
3847
b668c215
PH
3848 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3849 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3850 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3851 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3852 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3853
a494b1e1
PH
3854 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3855
3856 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3857 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3858 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3859 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3860
c5fcb476
PH
3861 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3862 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3863 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3864 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3865 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3866
69358f02
PH
3867 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3868
5be20824
PH
386910. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3870
eb2c0248
PH
387111. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3872 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3873 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3874 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3875
2a3eea10
PH
387612. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3877 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3878 sender verification.
3879
388013. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3881 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3882
23c7ff99
PH
388314. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3884
4deaf07d
PH
388515. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3886 connection timeout.
3887
926e1192
PH
388816. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3889 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3890
650edc6f
PH
389117. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3892 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3893
2c7db3f5
PH
389418. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3895 information about exactly what failed.
3896
3d235903
PH
389719. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3898
7c7ad977
PH
389920. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3900 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3901 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3902
981756db
PH
390321. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3904 It is now set to "smtps".
3905
d4eb88df
PH
390622. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3907 ignore_target_hosts.
3908
390923. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3910 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3911 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3912 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3913 "[x.x.x.x]".
3914
7d468ab8
PH
391524. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3916 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3917 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3918
391925. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3920 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3921 wake it up if nothing else does.
3922
62c0818f
PH
392326. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3924 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3925 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3926 end up negative.
3927
26034054
PH
392827. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3929 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3930
af66f652
PH
393128. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3932
90af77f4
PH
393329. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3934 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3935 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3936 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3937 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3938 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3939 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3940 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3941
d8ef3577
PH
394230. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3943 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3944 than one IP address.
3945
5cb8cbc6
PH
394631. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3947 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3948 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3949 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3950
14702f5b
PH
395132. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3952 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3953 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3954 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3955 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3956 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3957
063b1e99
PH
395833. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3959 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3960 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3961 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3962
652e1b65
PH
396334. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3964 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3965 respected.
3966
6f0c9a4f
PH
396735. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3968 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3969 $sender_host_address.
3970
33397d19
PH
397136. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3972 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3973 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3974 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3975 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3976 very small.
3977
7bb56e1f
PH
397837. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3979
3980 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3981 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3982
ea3bc19b
PH
3983 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3984 just the host names, not the priorities.
3985
3986 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3987 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3988 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3989
ea3bc19b 3990 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3991 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3992
0bcb2a0e
PH
399338. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3994 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3995 domain.
3996
2ac0e484
PH
399739. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3998
4e1fde53
PH
399940. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4000 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4001
de365ded
PH
400241. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4003 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4004 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4005
f05da2e8
PH
400642. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4007
d6453af2
PH
400843. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4009
f7b63901
PH
401044. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4011
401245. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4013 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4014 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4015 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4016 because the tests only now provoked it.
4017
a444213a
PH
401846. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4019 (this can affect the format of dates).
4020
0ec020ea
PH
402147. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4022 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4023 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4024 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4025
b1206957
PH
402648. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4027
402849. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4029 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4030 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4031 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4032
26dd5a95
PH
403350. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4034 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4035 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4036
343b2385
PH
403751. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4038 autoreply.
4039
1c5466b9
PH
404052. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4041 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4042 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4043 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4044 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4045 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4046 is going on).
4047
55ee9ee3
PH
404853. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4049 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4050 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4051 the line.
4052
d38f8232
PH
405354. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4054 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4055 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4056
4057 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4058 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4059 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4060 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4061 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4062 so I produce this patch..."
4063
3295e65b
PH
4064 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4065 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4066 is not defined.
4067
7102e136
PH
406855. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4069 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4070 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4071 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4072 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4073
3ca0ba97
PH
407456. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4075
c2bcbe20
PH
407657. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4077 long debug lines gets shown.
4078
18ce445d
PH
407958. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4080 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4081
1f5b4c3d
PH
408259. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4083
4084 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4085 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4086 of $primary_hostname.
4087
b975ba52
PH
408860. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4089 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4090 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4091 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4092 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4093 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4094 by change 4.50/55 above.
4095
4096 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4097 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4098 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4099 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4100 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4101 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4102 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4103
410461. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4105 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4106 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4107 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4108
17ffcae7
PH
410962. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4110 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4111
d95f9fdb
PH
411263. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4113 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4114 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4115 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4116 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4117
86b8287f
PH
411864. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4119 This has been fixed.
4120
60dc5e56
PH
412165. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4122 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4123 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4124 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4125 the caching.)
4126
533244af
PH
412766. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4128
a5a28604
PH
412967. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4130 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4131 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4132 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4133
7e634d24
PH
413468. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4135 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4136
3e11c26b
PH
413769. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4138 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4139 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4140
6729cf78
PH
414170. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4142 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4143 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4144 message there.
4145
00f00ca5
PH
414671. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4147 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4148 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4149
c9bdd01c
PH
415072. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4151 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4152 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4153 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4154
d43194df
PH
415573. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4156 during host lookups.
4157
fe5b5d0b
PH
415874. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4159 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4160
4161 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4162
76a2d7ba
PH
416375. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4164 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4165 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4166 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4167 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4168 background.
4169
417076. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4171 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4172
04f7d5b9
PH
417377. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4174 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4175 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4176
bc60667e
PH
417778. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4178
bb6e88ff
PH
417979. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4180 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4181 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4182 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4183 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4184 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4185 process earlier.
4186
1e70f85b
PH
418780. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4188 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4189 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4190 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4191 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4192
419381. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4194 tables).
4195
4e01f9d6
PH
419682. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4197
1ee1cef2
PH
419883. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4199 "vacation" handling.
4200
6e2b4ccc
PH
420184. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4202 OS variants using glibc.
4203
8e669ac1
PH
420485. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4205
495ae4b0 4206
bbe902f0
PH
4207----------------------------------------------------
4208See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4209----------------------------------------------------
4210
4211
4212Exim version 4.44
4213-----------------
4214
4215 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4216 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4217 transport
4218
4219 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4220 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4221 place.
4222
4223 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4224 filter fails to execute.
4225
4226 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4227 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4228 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4229 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4230 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4231
4232 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4233 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4234 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4235 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4236
4237 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4238 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4239 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4240 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4241 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4242
4243 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4244
4245 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4246 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4247 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4248 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4249
4250 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4251 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4252 sender verification.
4253
425410. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4255 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4256
425711. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4258 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4259
426012. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4261 ignore_target_hosts.
4262
426313. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4264 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4265 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4266 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4267 "[x.x.x.x]".
4268
426914. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4270 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4271 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4272
427315. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4274 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4275 wake it up if nothing else does.
4276
427716. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4278 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4279 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4280 end up negative.
4281
428217. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4283 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4284
ea3a6f44 428518. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4286
428719. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4288 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4289 empty pattern.
4290
429120. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4292 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4293 one IP address.
4294
ea3a6f44
NM
429521. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4296 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4297 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4298 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4299 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4300 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4301
ea3a6f44
NM
430222. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4303 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4304 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4305
430623. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4307 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4308 $sender_host_address.
4309
431024. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4311
ea3a6f44
NM
431225. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4313 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4314 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4315
431626. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4317 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4318
ea3a6f44
NM
431927. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4320 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4321
ea3a6f44
NM
432228. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4323 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4324 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4325 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4326
432729. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4328 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4329 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4330
ea3a6f44
NM
433130. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4332 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4333 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4334 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4335
ea3a6f44
NM
433631. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4337 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4338 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4339
ea3a6f44
NM
434031. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4341 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4342
ea3a6f44
NM
434332. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4344 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4345 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4346 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4347 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4348 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4349 is going on).
bbe902f0 4350
ea3a6f44
NM
435133. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4352 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4353 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4354 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4355 CAN-2005-0021
4356
ea3a6f44
NM
435734. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4358 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4359 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4360 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4361 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4362 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4363 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4364
4365 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4366 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4367 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4368 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4369 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4370 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4371 CAN-2005-0021
4372
ea3a6f44
NM
437335. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4374 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4375 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4376 CAN-2005-0022
4377
ea3a6f44
NM
437836. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4379 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4380 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4381 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4382 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4383
ea3a6f44
NM
438437. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4385 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4386 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4387 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4388 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4389
ea3a6f44
NM
439038. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4391 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4392 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4393 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4394 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4395
4396
495ae4b0
PH
4397Exim version 4.43
4398-----------------
4399
4400 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4401 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4402 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4403 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4404 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4405 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4406 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4407
4408 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4409 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4410 the delivery.
4411
4412 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4413
4414 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4415
4416 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4417 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4418 to local_scan().
4419
4420 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4421 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4422 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4423 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4424 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4425
4426 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4427 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4428
4429 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4430
4431 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4432
443310. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4434 header_sender only.
4435
443611. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4437 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4438
443912. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4440 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4441 affecting debugging statements).
4442
444313. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4444
444514. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4446 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4447 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4448 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4449 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4450 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4451 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4452 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4453 after the received time, and all would be well.
4454
445515. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4456 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4457 condition in an expansion string.
4458
445916. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4460
446117. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4462 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4463 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4464 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4465 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4466 job under whatever limits there are.
4467
446818. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4469
447019. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4471 space).
4472
447320. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4474 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4475 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4476 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4477 return path is set.
4478
447921. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4480 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4481 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4482 binary data in such strings.
4483
448422. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4485
448623. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4487 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4488 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4489 failure, which is pointless.
4490
449124. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4492
449325. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4494
449526. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4496 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4497 Sender: header lines.
4498
449927. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4500 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4501 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4502
450328. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4504 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4505 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4506 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4507 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4508 happens.
4509
451029. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4511 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4512 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4513 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4514 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4515
451630. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4517 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4518 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4519 1024.
4520
452131. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4522 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4523
452432. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4525 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4526
452733. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4528
452932. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4530
453133. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4532
453334. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4534 syntax error.
4535
453635. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4537
453836. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4539
454037. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4541 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4542 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4543 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4544
454538. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4546 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4547
4548
4549Exim version 4.42
4550-----------------
4551
4552 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4553 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4554 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4555 it was not quoted.
4556 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4557 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4558 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4559 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4560 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4561 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4562
4563 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4564 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4565 verification failure".
4566
4567 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4568 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4569 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4570 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4571
4572 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4573 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4574 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4575 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4576 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4577 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4578 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4579 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4580 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4581 treated as a timeout.
4582
4583 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4584 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4585 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4586 not set for Exim filters).
4587
4588 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4589 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4590 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4591
4592 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4593
4594 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4595 try to make them clearer.
4596
4597 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4598 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4599
4600 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4601
4602 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4603
460410. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4605 only the Cygwin environment.
4606
460711. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4608 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4609 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4610 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4611 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4612
461312. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4614 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4615 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4616 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4617 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4618 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4619 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4620
462113. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4622 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4623
462414. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4625
4626 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4627 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4628 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4629
4630 To: susanne@some.where
4631
4632 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4633 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4634 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4635 of addresses in From: header lines).
4636
4637 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4638 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4639 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4640
4641 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4642 treated as non-personal.
4643
4644 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4645 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4646
464715. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4648
464916. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4650
465117. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4652 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4653 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4654
465518. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4656 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4657
465819. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4659 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4660 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4661 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4662 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4663 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4664
466520. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4666 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4667 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4668 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4669 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4670 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4671 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4672 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4673
4674 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4675
467621. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4677 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4678
467922. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4680 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4681 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4682
468323. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4684 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4685
468624. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4687 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4688 rather than long int.
4689
469025. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4691
469226. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4693
4694
4695Exim version 4.41
4696-----------------
4697
4698 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4699 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4700 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4701 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4702 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4703 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4704
4705
4706Exim version 4.40
4707-----------------
4708
4709 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4710 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4711
4712 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4713 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4714 socklen_t is defined.
4715
4716 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4717 always exist.
4718
4719 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4720 configured.
4721
4722 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4723 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4724 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4725 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4726 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4727
4728 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4729 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4730 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4731 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4732
4733 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4734 of flapping under certain conditions.
4735
4736 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4737 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4738 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4739
4740 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4741
474210. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4743
474411. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4745 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4746 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4747 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4748
474912. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4750 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4751 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4752 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4753 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4754 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4755 preserved with the message after it was received.
4756
475713. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4758 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4759 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4760 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4761 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4762 test suite worked just fine.
4763
476414. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4765 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4766 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4767
476815. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4769 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4770 string.
4771
477216. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4773 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4774 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4775 does not fully solve it.
4776
477717. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4778 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4779 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4780 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4781 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4782
478318. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4784 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4785 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4786
478719. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4788 string, for example:
4789
4790 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4791
4792 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4793 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4794 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4795 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4796 the routers could not see them.
4797
479820. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4799 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4800
480121. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4802 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4803 output).
4804
480522. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4806 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4807 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4808 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4809 that needed quoting.
4810
481123. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4812 was not being matched caselessly.
4813
481424. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4815 backslashes.
4816
481725. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4818 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4819 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4820 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4821 when use_sender is false.
4822
482326. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4824
482527. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4826
482728. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4828
482929. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4830 the configuration file.
4831
483230. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4833 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4834
483531. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4836
483732. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4838 bytes in the message body.
4839
484033. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4841 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4842 delivery.
4843
484434. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4845
484635. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4847
484836. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4849 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4850 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4851 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4852 another IP address.
4853
4854
4855Exim version 4.34
4856-----------------
4857
4858 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4859 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4860
4861 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4862 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4863 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4864 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4865 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4866
4867 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4868 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4869
4870 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4871 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4872 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4873
4874 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4875 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4876 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4877
4878 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4879 for routers.
4880
4881 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4882 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4883 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4884 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4885 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4886 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4887 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4888
4889
4890Exim version 4.33
4891-----------------
4892
4893 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4894 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4895 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4896 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4897 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4898 default (and expected) setting.
4899
4900 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4901 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4902 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4903 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4904
4905 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4906 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4907
4908 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4909 in domain lists.
4910
4911 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4912 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4913 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4914 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4915 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4916 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4917
4918 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4919 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4920 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4921
4922 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4923 part (NOT match_host).
4924
4925 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4926
4927 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4928 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4929 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4930 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4931 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4932 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4933 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4934 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4935 the same named file.
4936
493710. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4938 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4939 when Exim is built.
4940
494111. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4942 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4943 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4944 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4945 a host name.
4946
494712. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4948 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4949 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4950
495113. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4952
495314. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4954
495515. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4956
495716. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4958 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4959
496017. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4961 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4962 before starting the TLS session.
4963
496418. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4965
496619. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4967 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4968
496920. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4970 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4971 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4972 colon in the middle).
4973
4974
4975Exim version 4.32
4976-----------------
4977
4978 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4979 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4980 multiple configurations are in use.
4981
4982 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4983 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4984 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4985 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4986 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4987 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4988
4989 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4990 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4991
4992 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4993 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4994 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4995
4996 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4997 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4998 occurs.
4999
5000 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5001 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5002
5003 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5004
5005 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5006 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5007
5008 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5009
5010 -prval:sval
5011
5012 is equivalent to
5013
5014 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5015
5016 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5017 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5018 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5019 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5020 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5021
502210. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5023 Exim's behaviour:
5024
5025 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5026 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5027 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5028 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5029 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5030 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5031
5032 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5033 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5034 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5035 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5036 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5037 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5038 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5039 string.
5040
5041 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5042 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5043 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5044 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5045 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5046
504711. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5048
504912. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5050 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5051 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5052
505313. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5054
505514. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5056 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5057 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5058 information.
5059
506015. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5061 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5062
506316. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5064 Three changes have been made:
5065
5066 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5067 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5068 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5069 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5070 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5071
5072 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5073 been restored.
5074
5075 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5076 the modified behaviour.
5077
5078
5079Exim version 4.31
5080-----------------
5081
5082 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5083 Larry Rosenman.
5084
5085 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5086 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5087
5088 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5089 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5090 try to track down a specific problem.
5091
5092 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5093 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5094 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5095
5096 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5097 warning.
5098
5099 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5100 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5101 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5102 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5103 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5104 some earlier ones do not.
5105
5106 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5107
5108 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5109 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5110 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5111 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5112 address literals are enabled, of course).
5113
5114 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5115
511610. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5117 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5118 by a command such as
5119
5120 exim -f "" ...
5121
5122 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5123
512411. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5125
512612. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5127 remained set. It is now erased.
5128
512913. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5130 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5131
513214. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5133 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5134 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5135 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5136 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5137 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5138 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5139 appropriate error code.
5140
514115. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5142 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5143 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5144 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5145 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5146 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5147
514816. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5149 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5150 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5151
515217. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5153 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5154 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5155 terminate the header.
5156
515718. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5158 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5159 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5160
516119. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5162 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5163 (4.30/29). In particular:
5164
5165 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5166 imposed.
5167
5168 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5169 to write a maildirsize file.
5170
5171 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5172 the transport, the new value overrides.
5173
5174 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5175 count.
5176
517720. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5178 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5179 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5180 space or a tab.
5181
518221. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5183 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5184 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5185 the fallback hosts.
5186
518722. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5188 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5189 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5190
519123. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5192 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5193 using a union.
5194
519524. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5196 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5197 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5198
519925. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5200
520126. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5202
520327. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5204
520528. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5206 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5207 become corrupted.
5208
520929. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5210 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5211 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5212 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5213 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5214 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5215 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5216 too great.
5217
521830. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5219 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5220 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5221 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5222 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5223 incorrectly.
5224
522531. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5226 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5227 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5228 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5229 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5230 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5231 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5232 cached value only when the same options are set.
5233
523432. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5235
523633. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5237 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5238 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5239 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5240 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5241
524234: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5243 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5244 it is clearly obsolete.
5245
524635. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5247 transport.
5248
524936. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5250 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5251 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5252 times.
5253
525437. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5255 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5256 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5257 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5258 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5259
526038. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5261 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5262 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5263 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5264
526539. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5266
5267 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5268
5269 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5270 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5271 2^31.
5272
527340. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5274 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5275 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5276 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5277 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5278 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5279 $localpart_data.
5280
528141. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5282 with the -f command-line option.
5283
528442. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5285 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5286 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5287 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5288 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5289 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5290
529143. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5292 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5293 line.
5294
529544. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5296 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5297 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5298 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5299 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5300 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5301 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5302 buffer is too small.
5303
530445. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5305 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5306
530746. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5308 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5309 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5310 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5311 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5312 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5313 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5314 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5315 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5316
531747. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5318 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5319 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5320
532148. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5322 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5323 ACL").
5324
532549. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5326 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5327 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5328 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5329 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5330
533150. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5332 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5333 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5334 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5335 is set.
5336
533751. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5338
533952. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5340
534153. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5342 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5343
534454. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5345 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5346 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5347
534855. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5349 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5350 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5351 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5352 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5353
535456. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5355 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5356 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5357 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5358 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5359 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5360 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5361
536257. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5363 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5364 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5365 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5366 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5367 the test of how many are available.
5368
536958. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5370 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5371 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5372 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5373 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5374 new message is started.
5375
537659. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5377 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5378
537960. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5380 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5381
538261. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5383 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5384 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5385 is no long logged.
5386
538762. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5388 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5389 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5390 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5391 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5392 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5393 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5394
539563. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5396 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5397 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5398 interpreted as octal.
5399
540064. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5401 setting.
5402
540365. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5404 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5405 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5406 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5407 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5408 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5409
541066. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5411 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5412 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5413 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5414
5415 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5416 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5417 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5418 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5419
5420 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5421 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5422 is a bug fix.
5423
5424 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5425 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5426
542767. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5428
542968. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5430 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5431 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5432 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5433
543469. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5435 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5436 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5437 supplied", which is not helpful.
5438
543970. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5440 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5441 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5442
544371. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5444 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5445 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5446 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5447 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5448 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5449 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5450 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5451
545272. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5453 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5454 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5455 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5456 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5457
545873. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5459 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5460 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5461 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5462 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5463 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5464
546574. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5466 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5467 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5468
546975. Added write_rejectlog option.
5470
547176. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5472 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5473 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5474 variables.
5475
547677. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5477
547878. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5479 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5480 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5481 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5482 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5483 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5484 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5485 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5486
548779. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5488 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5489 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5490 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5491 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5492
549380. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5494 Haardt.
5495
549681. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5497 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5498 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5499 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5500 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5501 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5502 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5503 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5504 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5505
5506
5507Exim version 4.30
5508-----------------
5509
5510 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5511 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5512 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5513
5514 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5515 fixed.
5516
5517 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5518 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5519 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5520
5521 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5522 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5523 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5524 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5525 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5526 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5527
5528 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5529 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5530 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5531 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5532 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5533 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5534 the Exim test suite.
5535
5536 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5537 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5538 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5539 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5540
5541 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5542 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5543 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5544 specify it in this variable.
5545
5546 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5547 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5548 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5549 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5550
5551 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5552 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5553 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5554 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5555
5556 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5557 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5558 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5559 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5560 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5561
5562 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5563
556410. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5565 they are logged.
5566
556711. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5568 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5569 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5570 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5571 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5572
557312. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5574 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5575
557613. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5577 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5578 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5579 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5580 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5581
558214. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5583 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5584
558515. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5586 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5587 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5588
558916. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5590 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5591
559217. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5593 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5594
559518. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5596 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5597 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5598
559919. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5600 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5601
560220. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5603 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5604 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5605 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5606
560721. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5608
560922. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5610 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5611 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5612 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5613
561423. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5615
561624. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5617 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5618
561925. Added .include_if_exists.
5620
562126. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5622 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5623 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5624 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5625 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5626 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5627
562827. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5629
563028. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5631 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5632 this.
5633
563429. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5635
563630. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5637 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5638
5639 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5640 550 Sender verify failed
5641
5642 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5643 the final line of the response.
5644
564531. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5646 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5647 all other user lookups.
5648
564932. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5650 delivery time.
5651
565233. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5653 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5654 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5655 result into an int without checking.
5656
565734. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5658 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5659 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5660
566135. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5662 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5663 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5664 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5665
566636. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5667 correctly.
5668
566937. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5670 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5671
567238. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5673 to the empty sender.
5674
567539. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5676 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5677 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5678 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5679 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5680 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5681 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5682 panic log.
5683
568440. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5685 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5686 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5687 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5688 used.
5689
569041. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5691 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5692
569342. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5694 timestamps.
5695
569643. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5697 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5698
569944. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5700
570145. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5702 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5703 logs.
5704
570546. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5706 as soon as it is encountered.
5707
570847. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5709
571048. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5711 rewritten to "<>".
5712
571349. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5714 recognizes a tab character.
5715
571650. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5717 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5718 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5719 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5720
572151. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5722
572352. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5724 crash.
5725
572653. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5727
572854. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5729
573055. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5731 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5732 2822.
5733
573456. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5735 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5736 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5737 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5738 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5739
574057. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5741 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5742
574358. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5744 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5745 list (.included file names were always shown).
5746
574759. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5748 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5749 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5750 root at that time.
5751
575260. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5753 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5754
575561. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5756
575762. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5758
575963. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5760
576164. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5762 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5763 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5764 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5765 failures to open the logs.
5766
576765. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5768 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5769 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5770 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5771 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5772 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5773 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5774
5775
5776Exim version 4.24
5777-----------------
5778
5779 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5780 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5781 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5782 change 4.23/1.
5783
5784 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5785 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5786 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5787
5788 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5789 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5790 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5791
5792 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5793 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5794 causing some misleading effects.
5795
5796 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5797 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5798 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5799
5800 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5801 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5802 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5803 queue-runner function directly.
5804
5805
5806Exim version 4.23
5807-----------------
5808
5809 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5810 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5811
5812 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5813 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5814 was always written to the default place.
5815
5816 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5817 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5818 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5819
5820 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5821
5822 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5823
5824 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5825 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5826 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5827
5828 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5829 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5830 must start.
5831
5832 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5833 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5834 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5835
5836 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5837 command line option is disabled.
5838
5839 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5840 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5841
5842 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5843
5844 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5845
5846 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5847 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5848
584910. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5850
585111. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5852 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5853 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5854 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5855 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5856 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5857
585812. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5859 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5860 timeout.
5861
586213. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5863 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5864
586514. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5866 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5867
586815. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5869 received was valid base64.
5870
587116. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5872 name of the variable that was being set.
5873
587417. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5875
587618. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5877 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5878 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5879 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5880 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5881 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5882
588319. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5884
588520. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5886 nor realm was specified.
5887
588821. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5889 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5890 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5891 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5892
589322. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5894 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5895 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5896
589723. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5898 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5899 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5900
590124. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5902 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5903 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5904 some systems use these upper case variants.
5905
590625. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5907 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5908 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5909 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5910
591126. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5912
591327. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5914 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5915
591628. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5917 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5918 expansion variable.
5919
592029. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5921
592230. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5923 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5924 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5925 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5926
592731. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5928 using it.
5929
593032. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5931 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5932 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5933
593433. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5935 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5936
593734. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5938 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5939 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5940 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5941
594235. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5943 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5944 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5945
594636. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5947
594837. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5949 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5950 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5951 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5952 aborted.
5953
595438. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5955 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5956 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5957
595839. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5959
596040. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5961 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5962
596341. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5964 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5965
596642. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5967 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5968 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5969 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5970 when emails are that large.
5971
5972
5973
5974Exim version 4.22
5975-----------------
5976
5977 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5978 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5979
5980 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5981 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5982 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5983
5984 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5985 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5986 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5987
5988 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5989 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5990 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5991 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5992 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5993
5994 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5995 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5996 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5997 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5998 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5999 ever.
6000
6001 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6002 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6003 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6004 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6005 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6006 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6007 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6008 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6009 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6010 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6011 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6012 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6013 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6014 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6015
6016 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6017 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6018 parameterised it.
6019
6020 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6021 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6022 error should be diagnosed.
6023
6024 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6025 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6026 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6027 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6028 appeared instead of "NULL".
6029
603010. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6031 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6032 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6033 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6034 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6035 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6036 proceeds).
6037
6038 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6039 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6040 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6041
6042
6043Exim version 4.21
6044-----------------
6045
6046 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6047 or receiver verification errors.
6048
6049 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6050 name.
6051
6052 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6053 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6054 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6055 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6056
6057 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6058 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6059 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6060 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6061 shouldn't happen again.
6062
6063 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6064 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6065 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6066
6067 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6068 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6069
6070 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6071
6072 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6073 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6074
6075 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6076 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6077 RFC.
6078
607910. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6080 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6081 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6082
608311. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6084 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6085 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6086 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6087
608812. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6089 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6090 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6091 to define what should happen).
6092
609313. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6094 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6095 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6096
609714. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6098
609915. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6100
610116. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6102 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6103
610417. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
6105 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6106 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6107 structure in all cases.
6108
6109 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6110 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6111 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6112 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6113
611418. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6115 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6116 domain name.
6117
611819. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6119 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6120
612120. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6122 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6123
612421. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6125 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6126 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6127
612822. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6129 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6130 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6131
613223. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6133 the book and for uniformity.
6134
613524. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6136
613725. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6138 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6139 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6140 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6141 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6142 non-existent command as the problem.
6143
614426. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6145 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6146 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6147
614827. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6149
615028. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6151 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6152 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6153
615429. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6155 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6156 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6157 timestamps using strftime().
6158
615930. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6160 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6161
616232. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6163 transport-time rewrites.
6164
616533. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6166 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6167 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6168 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6169
617034. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6171 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6172
617335. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6174 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6175 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6176 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6177 comma and a space.
6178
617936. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6180 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6181 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6182 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6183 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6184 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6185 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6186
618737. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6188 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6189 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6190 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6191 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6192
619338. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6194 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6195 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6196 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6197 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6198 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6199 remaining text gets split now.
6200
620139. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6202 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6203 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6204 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6205
620640. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6207 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6208 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6209 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6210 $return_path.
6211
621241. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6213 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6214 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6215 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6216 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6217 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6218 passed through if needed.
6219
622042. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6221 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6222 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6223 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6224 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6225 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6226
622743. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6228 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6229 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6230 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6231 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6232
623344. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6234 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6235 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6236 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6237 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6238
623945. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6240 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6241 noticed.
6242
624346. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6244 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6245 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6246 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6247 mayhem of various kinds.
6248
624947. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6250 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6251 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6252 the right test for positive values.
6253
625448. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6255 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6256 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6257 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6258 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6259 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6260 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6261 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6262 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6263 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6264 envelope.
6265
626649. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6267 module.
6268
626950. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6270 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6271 forbidding it.
6272
627351. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6274 the existing equality matching.
6275
627652. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6277 dealing with inode numbers.
6278
627953. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6280 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6281 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6282
628354. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6284 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6285 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6286 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6287 local_scan().
6288
628955. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6290 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6291 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6292 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6293 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6294 relay addresses has also been removed.
6295
629656. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6297
629857. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6299 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6300 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6301
630258. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6303 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6304 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6305 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6306 processing applies to CR:
6307
6308 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6309 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6310
6311 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6312 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6313 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6314 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6315
631659. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6317 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6318 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6319
632060. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6321 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6322 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6323 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6324 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6325 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6326 arisen.
6327
632861. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6329 program routers.
6330
633162. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6332 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6333 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6334 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6335 adds:
6336
6337 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6338
6339 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6340
6341 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6342
634363. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6344 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6345 not considered personal.
6346
634764. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6348
634965. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6350
635166. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6352
635367. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6354 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6355 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6356 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6357 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6358 header lines, and spool format errors.
6359
636068. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6361 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6362 for more flexibility.
6363
636469. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6365 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6366 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6367
636870. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6369 Sabourenkov.
6370
637171. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6372 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6373 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6374 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6375 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6376 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6377 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6378 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6379 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6380
638172. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6382 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6383 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6384 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6385 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6386 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6387 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6388
638973. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6390 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6391 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6392
639374. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6394 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6395 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6396 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6397 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6398 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6399 instead of killing the process with assert().
6400
640175. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6402 than Unicode encoding.
6403
640476. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6405 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6406 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6407 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6408
640977. Added process_log_path.
6410
641178. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6412 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6413
641479. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6415 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6416
641780. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6418 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6419 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6420
642181. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6422 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6423 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6424 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6425 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6426 were applied:
6427
6428 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6429 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6430 as invalid.
6431
643282. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6433 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6434 they will be used during message reception.
6435
6436
6437Exim version 4.20
6438-----------------
6439
6440The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6441
6442****