TLS version reporting. fixes: #745
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3Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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9TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
10 "spamd_servers" if it starts with a dollar sign.
11
12TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
13 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
14 Hirsch)
15
16TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
17 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
18 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile. Check out
19 experimental_spec.txt for more documentation.
20
21TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
22 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
23
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24NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
25 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
26 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
27 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
28
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29NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
30 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
31 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine
32
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33TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
34
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35TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
36
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37NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
38 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima
39
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40NM/04 Bugzilla 667: close socket used by dovecot authenticator
41
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42TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
43 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
44 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
45 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
46
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47NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
48 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt
49
23510047 50TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
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52NM/05 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildix aux files being created with mode 000
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ce552449 54NM/05 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
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55 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki
56
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57TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
58 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
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60TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
61 that they are available at delivery time.
62
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63TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
64
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65TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
66 incoming_port log selectors.
67
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68TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
69 setting expands to an empty string.
70
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71NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
72 Patch provided by Phil Pennock
73
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74NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
75 Patch provided by Richard Godbee
76
4f054c63 77NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 78 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
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80NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format
81 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak
82
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83NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to accept()
84 Patch provided by Maxim Dounin
85
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86NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
87 Patch provided by Phil Pennock
88
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89NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
90
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91NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
92 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch
93
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94NM/14 Bugzilla 614: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
95 Patch provided by Dean Brooks
96
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97TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
98
8f3414a1 99NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
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100 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler
101
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102NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
103
104NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 105
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106NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in lsearch
107
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108NM/18 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting
109
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114TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
115 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
116 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
117
118 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
119 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
120 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
121 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
122 build errors in sieve.c.
123
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124NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
125 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
126 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
127
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128SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
129
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130NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr
131
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132NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp
133
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134NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall)
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139
140PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
141
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142PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
143 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
144 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
145 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
146 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
147 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
148 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
149 for iplsearch lookups.
150
151 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
152 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
153 previously such lookups could never work.
154
155 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
156 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
157 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
158
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159TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
160 version.
161
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162MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
163 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
164 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
165 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
166 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
167 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
168
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169TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
170 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
171
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172MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
173 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
174 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
175 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
176 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
177 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
178
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179PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
180 local_scan API.
181
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182PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
183
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184PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
185 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
186 encrypted.
187
188PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
189 by clients under certain conditions.
190
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191PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
192 "_responses" off the end of the name.
193
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194PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
195
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196PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
197 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
198
199PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
200
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201PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
202
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203PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
204
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205PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
206 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
207
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208PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
209
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210PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
211 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
212
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213PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
214
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215PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
216
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217PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
218 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
219 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
220 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 221
ddea74fa 222PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
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223 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
224 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
225
ddea74fa 226PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
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227 and InterBase are left for another time.)
228
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229PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
230
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231PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
232
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233PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
234
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235PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
236 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
237 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
238
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242
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243MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
244 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
245 Jan Srzednicki.
246
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247PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
248 issue a MAIL command.
249
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250PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
251
252 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
253
254 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
255 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
256 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
257 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
258 item. This has been fixed.
259
260PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
261 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
262
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263PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
264 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
265
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266PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
267 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
268 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
269
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270SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
271
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272PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
273 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
274 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
275 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
276 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
277
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278MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
279 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
280 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
281
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282PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
283 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
284 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
285 the server_setid option was incorrect.
286
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287PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
288
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289PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
290
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291PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
292 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
293 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
294 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
295 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
296
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297PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
298
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299PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
300 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
301 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
302 values).
303
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304PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
305
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306PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
307
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308PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
309
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310PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
311
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312PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
313
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314PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
315 no_callout_flush is set.
316
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317PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
318 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
319 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
320 fixed.
321
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322PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
323
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324PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
325 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
326 other ACL rejections are.
327
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328PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
329 with slight modification.
330
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331PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
332 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
333
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334PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
335 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
336 connection.
337
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338PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
339 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
340
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341SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
342
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343PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
344 expansion side effects.
345
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346PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
347 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
348 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
349 be the same.
350
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351MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
352 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
353 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
354
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355PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
356 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
357 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
358 were accidentally chopped off.
359
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360PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
361 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
362 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
363 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
364 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
365 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
366 pipelining has not been advertised.
367
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368PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
369
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370PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
371 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
372 This has been fixed.
373
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374PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
375 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
376 reported on Solaris.
377
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378PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
379 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
380 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
381 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
382 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
383 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
384 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
385
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386PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
387 cpus.
388
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389PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
390
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391PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
392
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393PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
394 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
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395 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
396 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
397 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
398 criteria to be more general.
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400PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
401 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
402 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
403 host_all_ignored option.
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405PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
406 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
407 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
408 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
409 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
410 is what is supposed to happen).
411
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412PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
413 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
414 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
415 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
416 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
417 uses the Exim user.
418
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419PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
420 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
421 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
422 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
423 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
424 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
425 users.
426
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427PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
428
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429SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
430 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
431 (Jez Hancock).
432 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
433 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
434
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435SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
436
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437PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
438
58eb016e 439PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
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440 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
441 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
442 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
443 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
444 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
445 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
446 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 447 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
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448 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
449 least in a lot of common cases.
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451PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
452 advertised in response to EHLO.
453
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458PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
459 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
460
461 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
462 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
463
464 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
465 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
466 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
467
468 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
469 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
470 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
471 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
472 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
473
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478TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
479 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
480 versions. (#438)
481
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482MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
483 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
484 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
485
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486PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
487 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
488 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
489 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
490 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
491 rather than extend the field.
492
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497TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
498 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
499 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
500 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
501 these files.
502
503TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
504 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
505 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
506
507TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
508 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
509 hence the _LINUX specificness.
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510
511TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
512 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
513 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
514 in the field name.
515
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516PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
517 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
518 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
519 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
520 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
521 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
522 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
523 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
524 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
525 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
526 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
527
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528PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
529 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
530
531PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
532 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
533 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
534 ignores EPIPE as well.
535
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536PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
537 (quoted-printable decoding).
538
cc2ed8f7 539PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 540 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 541
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542PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
543
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544PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
545
546PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
547
38a0a95f 548PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 549 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
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551JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
552 in 4.64-PH/09.
553
554JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
555 miscellaneous code fixes
556
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557PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
558 rejections.
559
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560PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
561 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
562 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
563 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
564 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
565 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
566 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
567 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 568
14aa5a05 569PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 570 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
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571 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
572 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
573 function.
574 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
575 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
576 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
577 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
578 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
579 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
580 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
581 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
582 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
583
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584PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
585 decoding.
586
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587PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
588 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
589 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
590 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
591 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
592 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
593 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
594 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
595
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596PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
597 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
598 list.
599
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600PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
601 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
602 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
603 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
604 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
605 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
606 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
607 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
608 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
609 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
610 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
611 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
612 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
613
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614PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
615 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
616 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
617 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
618 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
619 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
620 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
621
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622PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
623 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
624 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
625 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
626 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
627 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
628 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
629 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
630 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
631 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
632
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633PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
634 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
635 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
636 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
637 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
638
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639PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
640 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
641 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
642 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
643 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
644 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
645 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
646
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647PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
648 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
649 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
650 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
651 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
652 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
653 been verified.
654
48da4259 655PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
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656 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
657 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
658 and authorization.)
659
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660PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
661 if any retry times were supplied.
662
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663PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
664 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
665 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
666
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667PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
668
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669PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
670
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671PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
672 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
673 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
674 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
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675 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
676 before) are ignored.
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678PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
679 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
680
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681PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
682 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
683 committing the later change.]
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684
685PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
686 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
687 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
688 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
689 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
690 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
691 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
692 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
693 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
694
695 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
696 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
697 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
698 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
699 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
700 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
701 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
702 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
703 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
704
705 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
706 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
707 hammering the server.
708
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709PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
710 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
711
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712PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
713
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714PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
715 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
716 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
717
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718PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
719 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
720 one case where this was not true.
721
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722PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
723 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
724 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
725 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
726 fails.
727
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728PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
729 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
730 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
731 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
732 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
733 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
734 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
735 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
736 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
737 smtp transport.
738
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739PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
740 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
741 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
742 same for both kinds of LMTP.
743
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744PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
745 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
746
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747PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
748 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
749 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
750
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751PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
752
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753PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
754
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755PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
756
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757PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
758 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
759 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
760 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
761
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762PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
763 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
764
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765PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
766 be meaningful with "accept".
767
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768SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
769 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
770
771SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
772 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
773 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
774
775SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
776 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
777 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
778 there is data to show.
779 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
780
781SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
782 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
783 as well as the number of messages.
784
785SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
786 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
787 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
788
789SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
790 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
791 have a flag are now skipped.
792
793SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
794 Added the -emptyok flag.
795
796SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
797 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
798
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799JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
800 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
801 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
802
803JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
804 match 4.64-PH/13
805
806JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
807 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
808
809JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
810
811JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
812 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
813
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814PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
815
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816PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
817 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
818 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
819 contravention of the specifications.
820
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821PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
822 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
823 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
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825PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
826 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
827 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
828
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829PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
830
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831MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
832 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
833 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
834 some point in the past.
835
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836PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
837 transport during callout processing was broken.
838
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839PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
840 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
841
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842PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
843 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
844
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845PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
846 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
847
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848PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
849
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852-----------------
853
854SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
855 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
856
857SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
858 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
859 there is data to show.
860 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
861
862SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
863 as the number of messages in eximstats.
864
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865TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
866 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
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868TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
869 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
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871TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
872 submissions from trusted users.
873
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874TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
875 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
876
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877TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
878 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
879 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
880 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
881 there is now a framework to start from.
882
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883PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
884 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
885 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
886
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887PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
888
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889PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
890
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891PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
892
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893PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
894 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
895 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
896
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897PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
898 libradius.
899
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900PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
901 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
902 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
903
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904PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
905 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
906 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
907 its arguments.
908
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909PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
910 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
911 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
912 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
913 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
914
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915PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
916 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
917
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918PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
919
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920PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
921 operations in malware.c.
922
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923PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
924 signatures.
925
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926PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
927 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
928 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
929 all.
930
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931PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
932 statements to "add_header".
933
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934PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
935 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
936
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937PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
938 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
939 latter.
940
e85a7ad5 941PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
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942 so that it is now:
943
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944 ${if or { \
945 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
946 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
947 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
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948 }{no}{yes}}
949
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950 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
951 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 952
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953PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
954 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
955
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956PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
957 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
958 any possible encoding problems.
959
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960PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
961 but not after initializing Perl.
962
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963PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
964 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
965 apparently, which is not desirable.
966
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967PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
968 queries.
969
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970JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
971 --not options
972
973JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
974
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975PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
976 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
977 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
978 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
979
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980PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
981 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
982 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
983
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984PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
985 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
986 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
987 0.12.
988
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989PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
990 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
991 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
992 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
993 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
994
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998
999TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1000 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1001
1cce3af8
PH
1002PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1003 patch).
1004
afb3eaaf
PH
1005PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1006 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1007 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1008 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1009 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1010 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1011 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1012 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1013 451 error is used.
1014
e173618b
PH
1015PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1016
dd16e114
PH
1017PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1018 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1019 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1020
f7fd3850
PH
1021PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1022 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1023 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1024 odd errors.
1025
d87df92c
PH
1026PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1027 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1028
7e9f683d
PH
1029PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1030 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1031 option (which defaults to 0600).
1032
bfad5236
PH
1033PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1034
01c490df
PH
1035PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1036 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1037 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1038 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1039 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1040 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1041 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1042
d6629cdc
PH
1043PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1044
1cce3af8 1045
214e2000
PH
1046Exim version 4.61
1047-----------------
1048
1049PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1050 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1051 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1052 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1053 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1054 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1055 addresses as local.
1056
f9daeae0
PH
1057PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1058 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1059
7e66e54d
PH
1060PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1061
c8ea1597
PH
1062PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1063 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1064 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1065 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1066 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1067 grumble.
1068
911f6fde
PH
1069PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1070 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1071
47ca6d6c
PH
1072PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1073 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1074 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1075 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1076 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1077
ed0e9820
PH
1078PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1079 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1080 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1081 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1082
eff37e47
PH
1083PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1084 be the same on different OS.
1085
1921d2ea
PH
1086PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1087 testing.
1088
b3f69ca8
JJ
1089JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1090 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1091
1092JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1093 in 4.61-PH/06
1094
424a1c63
PH
1095PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1096 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1097 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1098 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1099 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1100 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1101 bounce message.
1102
7a100415
PH
1103PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1104 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1105 when Exim was called.
1106
19b9dc85
PH
1107PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1108 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1109
309bd837
PH
1110PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1111 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1112 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1113 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1114
59e82a2a
PH
1115PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1116 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1117 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1118 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1119 changes:
1120
1121 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1122 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1123 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1124
1125 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1126 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1127 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1128
9edc04ce
PH
1129PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1130 feature).
1131
1349e1e5
PH
1132PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1133 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1134 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1135 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1136 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1137 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1138 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1139 values from the SRV records were lost.
1140
ea49d0e1
PH
1141PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1142 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1143 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1144
064a94c9
PH
1145PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1146 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1147 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1148
727071f8
PH
1149PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1150 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1151 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1152 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1153 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1154 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1155 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1156 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1157 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 1158 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 1159
f78eb7c6
PH
1160PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1161 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1162 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1163
21c28500
PH
1164PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1165 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1166
1167PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1168 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1169 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1170 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1171 is given.
1172
1688f43b
PH
1173PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1174 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1175 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1176
1177PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1178 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1179 PH/23 above applies.
1180
9675b384
PH
1181PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1182 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1183 (for which there is an explicit test).
1184
6a3f1455
PH
1185PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1186
dac79d3e
PH
1187PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1188 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1189 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1190 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1191 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 1192
5977a0b3
PH
1193PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1194 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1195 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1196 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1197
c91535f3
PH
1198PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1199 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1200 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1201
0d46a8c8
PH
1202PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1203
278c6e6c
PH
1204PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1205
2cbb4081
PH
1206PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1207 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1208 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1209
3eef829e
PH
1210PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1211 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1212 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1213 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1214 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1215
1ab95fa6
PH
1216PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1217 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1218 the message gets confusing).
1219
230205fc
PH
1220PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1221 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
1222 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
1223 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
1224
75e0e026
PH
1225PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
1226 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
1227 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
1228 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
1229 same order.
1230
1231PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
1232 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
1233 the different processes.
1234
145396a6
PH
1235PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
1236
3cd34f13
PH
1237PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
1238
11121d3d
JJ
1239JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
1240 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
1241
1242JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
1243 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
1244
1245JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
1246 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
1247 messages matching specified criteria.
1248
8def5aaf
PH
1249PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
1250
929ba01c
PH
1251PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
1252 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
1253
2632889e
PH
1254PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
1255 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
1256 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
1257 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
1258 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
1259 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
1260 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
1261 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
1262 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
1263 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
1264
944a9c55
PH
1265PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
1266 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
1267 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
1268
4a23603b
PH
1269PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
1270
4730f942
PH
1271PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
1272 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
1273 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
1274 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
1275 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
1276 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
1277 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
1278 the variable.
1279
30dba1e6
PH
1280PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
1281 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
1282
382afc6b
PH
1283PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
1284
a86229cf
PH
1285PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
1286
50c99ba6
PH
1287PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1288
d35e429d
PH
1289PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
1290 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
1291 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
1292 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
1293 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
1294 size of the count of files.
1295
f90d018c
PH
1296PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
1297
75def545
PH
1298PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
1299 used in LMTP mode:
1300
1301 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
1302 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
1303 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
1304 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
1305
1306 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
1307 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
1308 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
1309
1310PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
1311 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
1312 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
1313 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
1314 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
1315
c46782ef
PH
1316PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
1317 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
1318
71fafd95
PH
1319PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
1320 will now be deprecated.
1321
2c5db4fd
PH
1322PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
1323
9cf6b11a
JJ
1324JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
1325 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
1326 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
1327
1328JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
1329 with very large, slow to parse queues
1330
1331JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
1332
1333JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
1334
898d150f
PH
1335PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
1336 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
1337 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
1338 SMTP output lines.
1339
46218253
PH
1340PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
1341 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
1342 Sieve code now uses this.
1343
e97957bc
PH
1344PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
1345 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
1346
81e509d7
PH
1347PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
1348 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
1349
3d240ff7
PH
1350PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
1351
b37c4101
PH
1352PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
1353 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
1354 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
1355 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
1356 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
1357
79378e0f
PH
1358PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
1359 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
1360 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
1361 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
1362
e49c7bb4
PH
1363PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
1364
d114ec46
PH
1365PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
1366
f3d7df6c
PH
1367PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
1368 is preferred over IPv4.
1369
715ab376
PH
1370PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
1371 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
1372 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
1373 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
1374 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
1375 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
1376 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
1377
6b31b150
PH
1378PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
1379 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
1380 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
1381
1382PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
1383
d515a917
PH
1384PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
1385 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
1386 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
1387 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
1388 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
1389 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
1390 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
1391 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
1392 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
1393 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
1394 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
1395
9b8fadde
PH
1396PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
1397 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
1398 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
1399
214e2000 1400
5de37277
PH
1401Exim version 4.60
1402-----------------
1403
cc38ddbf
PH
1404PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
1405
1406 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
1407 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
1408
1409 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
1410 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
1411 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 1412
72fdd6ae
PH
1413PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
1414
1415 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
1416 not a single digit.
1417
1418 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
1419 string.
1420
1421 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
1422 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
1423 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
1424 silly things.
1425
1426 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
1427 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
1428
1429 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
1430 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 1431
cb741023
PH
1432PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
1433 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
1434 "/bin:/usr/bin".
1435
f174f16e
PH
1436PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
1437 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 1438
c25242d7
PH
1439PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
1440 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
1441
1442 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
1443
1444 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
1445 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
1446 this:
1447
1448 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
1449
82c19f95
PH
1450PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
1451 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
1452 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
1453 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
1454 identical. For example:
1455
1456 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
1457
1458 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
1459 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
1460 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
1461
d7ffbc12
PH
1462PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
1463 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
1464 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
1465 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
1466
9f526266
PH
1467PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
1468 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
1469 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
1470 message.
1471
87fcc8b9
PH
1472PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
1473
1474 o fixes some comments
1475 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
1476 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
1477 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
1478 and documents the missing references header update
1479
1480 and most important:
1481
1482 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
1483 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
1484 result)
1485
456682f5
PH
1486PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
1487 Electronic Mail") by including:
1488
1489 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
1490
1491 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
1492 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
1493 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
1494 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
1495 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
1496
1497 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
1498
1499 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
1500
1501 The auto-replied keyword:
1502
1503 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
1504 message by an automatic process,
1505
1506 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
1507
1508 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
1509 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
1510
1511 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
1512 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
1513 other messages.
1514
3e46c1aa
PH
1515PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
1516 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 1517
49826d12
PH
1518PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
1519
eba0c039
PH
1520PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
1521 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
1522 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
1523
a0d6ba8a
PH
1524PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
1525 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
1526 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
1527
f0917727
PH
1528PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
1529 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
1530 and treats the condition as false.
1531
096fee00
PH
1532PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
1533
024bd3c2
PH
1534PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
1535 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
1536 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
1537 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
1538 not changing the active code.
1539
1540 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
1541 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
1542
1543 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
1544 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
1545
df199fec
PH
1546PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
1547 (Bugzilla #53).
1548
d27f1df3
PH
1549PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
1550 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
1551 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
1552 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
1553 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
1554 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
1555 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
1556 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
1557 the text comparison.
1558
96776534
PH
1559PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
1560 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
1561 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
1562 The same fix has been applied.
1563
5de37277 1564
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1565Exim version 4.54
1566-----------------
1567
1568PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
1569 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
1570 It now does.
1571
99a4b039
PH
1572PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
1573 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
1574
1575PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
1576
4b233853
PH
1577PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
1578 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
1579 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
1580 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
1581 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
1582
8857ccfd
PH
1583TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
1584 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
1585 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
1586 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
1587 or /domain=).
1588
433a2980
PH
1589PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
1590 testing suite.
1591
3e46c1aa 1592
9a799bc0 1593
e3a311ba
TK
1594Exim version 4.53
1595-----------------
1596
1597TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
1598 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
1599
13b685f9
PH
1600PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
1601
395ff96d
PH
1602PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
1603
5b68f6e4
PH
1604PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
1605 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
1606 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
1607
1ab52c69
PH
1608PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
1609 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
1610 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
1611
b07e6aa3
PH
1612PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
1613 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
1614 operating systems.
1615
254e032f
PH
1616PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
1617 ${stat: expansion item.
1618
3af76a81
PH
1619PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
1620 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
1621
2548ba04
PH
1622PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
1623 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
1624 file for comments.
1625
b6c6011d
PH
1626PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
1627
cf39cf57
PH
1628PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
1629 setting.
1630
f1513293
PH
1631PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
1632 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
1633
727549a4
PH
1634TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
1635
af46795e
PH
1636PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
1637 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
1638 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
1639 the end of the subprocess.
1640
d7b47fd0
PH
1641PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
1642 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
1643 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
1644 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
1645 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
1646
ee744174
JJ
1647JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
1648
b582ab87
PH
1649TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
1650
41a13e0a
PH
1651PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
1652 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
1653
f625cc5a
PH
1654PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
1655
1656PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
1657
21f7af35
PH
1658PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
1659 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
1660 HP-UX compiler.
1661
31480e42
PH
1662PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
1663
2d280592
PH
1664PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
1665 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
1666 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
1667
7cd1141b
PH
1668PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
1669 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
1670
1671PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
1672 host errors such as "Connection refused".
1673
750af86e
PH
1674PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
1675 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
1676
1677 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
1678 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
1679
1680 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
1681 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
1682 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
1683 contributed by a Radius user.
1684
1685PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
1686 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
1687
4304270b
TK
1688TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
1689 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
1690
750af86e
PH
1691PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
1692 available.
1693
64ffc24f
PH
1694PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
1695 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
1696 received.
1697
5dd9625b
PH
1698PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
1699 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
1700 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
1701 header lines when this was not necessary.
1702
5591031b
PH
1703PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
1704
ba18e66a
PH
1705PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
1706 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
1707 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
1708 exists".
1709
9cec981f
PH
1710PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
1711 -bV or -d is used.
1712
aa2b5c79
PH
1713PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
1714 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
1715 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
1716 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 1717
48a53b7f
PH
1718PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
1719
1c59d63b
PH
1720PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
1721
671012da
TK
1722TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
1723
1509d3a8
PH
1724PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
1725
1726PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
1727 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
1728 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
1729 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
1730 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
1731 settings.
1732
1733PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
1734
2fe1a124
PH
1735PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
1736 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
1737 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
1738 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
1739 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
1740 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
1741 which is clearly wrong.
1742
8800895a
PH
1743PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
1744
ccfdb010
PH
1745PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
1746 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
1747 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
1748 subsequently added.
1749
1130bfb0
PH
1750PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
1751 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
1752
ebcb507f
PH
1753PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
1754
c35e155c
PH
1755PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
1756 the "build-* directories that it finds.
1757
95d1f782
PH
1758PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
1759 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
1760
fd6de02e
PH
1761PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
1762 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
1763
58de37c5
PH
1764PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
1765 recipients, not senders.
1766
261cf466
TF
1767TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
1768 the ratelimit ACL was added.
1769
3ee512ff
PH
1770PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
1771
e08c430f
PH
1772PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
1773
bef5a11f
PH
1774PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
1775 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
1776 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
1777 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
1778
7546de58
TF
1779TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
1780
e5d5a95f
TF
1781TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
1782 clock is set back in time.
1783
2e88a017
TF
1784TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
1785 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
1786
a5f65aa4
TF
1787TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
1788 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
1789
e7726cbf
PH
1790PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
1791 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
1792 (see PH/47 above).
1793
a7fdad5b
TF
1794TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
1795 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
1796 header rewrites.
1797
6af56900
PH
1798PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
1799 type ("H").
1800
0925ede6
PH
1801PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
1802
66afa403
TF
1803TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
1804 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
1805 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
1806
0154e85a
TF
1807TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
1808 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
1809 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
1810 helo verification defer as a failure.
1811
16f12c76
PH
1812PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
1813 actual error message.
1814
bbe902f0 1815
e5a9dba6
PH
1816Exim version 4.52
1817-----------------
1818
1819TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
1820
22c3b60b
PH
1821PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
1822 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
1823 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
1824 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
1825
06a9b4b5
PH
1826TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
1827
c1ac6996
PH
1828PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
1829 can still be requested.
1830
9c7a242c
PH
1831PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
1832 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
1833 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
1834 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
1835
87ba3f5f
PH
1836TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
1837 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
1838 circumstances, but probably never did.
1839
1840PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
1841 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
1842 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
1843 in the header line.
1844
29aba418
TF
1845TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
1846
fe0dab11
TF
1847TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
1848 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 1849
11d337a4
TK
1850TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
1851
1852TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
1853
415c8f3b
PH
1854PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
1855 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
1856 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
1857 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
1858 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
1859 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 1860
958541e9
PH
1861PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
1862 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
1863 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
1864 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
1865 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
1866 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
1867
c206415f
TK
1868TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
1869 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
1870
2a4be8f9
PH
1871PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
1872 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
1873
1cba11c5
SC
1874SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
1875 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
1876
1877SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
1878
1879SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
1880
1881SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
1882
1883SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
1884
1885SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
1886
1887SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
1888
1005d00e
TK
1889TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
1890
1891TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
1892 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
1893 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
1894
1895TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
1896 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
1897 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
1898 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
1899
9b4768fa
PH
1900PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
1901 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
1902 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
1903
1904PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
1905 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
1906 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
1907 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
1908
0d7eb84a
PH
1909PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
1910 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
1911 to be made).
1912
1913PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
1914 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
1915 should work with maildirs and everything.
1916
40727bee
TK
1917TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
1918 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
1919
554d2369
TF
1920TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
1921 <jgh@wizmail.org>
1922
1f922db1
PH
1923PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
1924 function for BDB 4.3.
1925
ef213c3b
PH
1926PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
1927
8ac170f3
PH
1928PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
1929 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
1930 involved.
1931
b1c749bb
PH
1932PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
1933 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
1934 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
1935 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
1936 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
1937 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 1938
4aac9b49
PH
1939PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
1940 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
1941 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
1942 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
1943 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
1944 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
1945 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
1946 falls back to the previous guessing code."
1947
294520c8
TK
1948TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
1949 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
1950 details.
1951
5bd022fe
PH
1952PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
1953 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
1954
90e9ce59
PH
1955PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
1956 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
1957 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
1958 test. It is now used for both.
1959
5ea81592
PH
1960PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
1961 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
1962 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
1963 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
1964 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
1965 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
1966
c6c2dc1d
PH
1967PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
1968 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
1969 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
1970 string_vformat().
1971
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1972PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
1973 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
1974 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 1975
9a26b6b2
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1976PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
1977 experimental DomainKeys support:
1978
1979 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
1980 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
1981 the control was given.
1982
1983 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
1984
4aee0225
PH
1985PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
1986
32d668a5
PH
1987PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
1988
8187c3f3
PH
1989PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
1990 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
1991 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
1992 db.h files).
1993
ff790e47 1994PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
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1995 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
1996 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
1997 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
1998 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
1999 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2000 course.
ff790e47 2001
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2002PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2003 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2004 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2005 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2006 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2007 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2008
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2009PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2010 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2011 do -d+all out of habit.
2012
e7ad8a65
PH
2013PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2014 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2015 x86_64 Fedora Core.
2016
ade42478
PH
2017PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2018 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2019 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2020 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2021 record types that Exim uses.
2022
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PH
2023PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2024 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2025 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2026 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2027 non-existent file that was broken.
2028
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TK
2029TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2030 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2031
2032TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2033 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2034 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2035
2036TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2037
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PH
2038PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2039 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2040 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2041 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2042 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2043 same time.
2044
a388bce4
SC
2045SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2046 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2047 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2048 at a slight CPU cost.
2049
2050SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2051 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2052
2053SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2054 by Marc Sherman.
2055
0793e4ed
SC
2056SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2057
c58b88df
PH
2058PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2059 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2060
e7ad8a65 2061
7982096b
PH
2062Exim version 4.51
2063-----------------
2064
1a46a8c5
PH
2065TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2066 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2067
2f079f46 2068TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
2069
2070TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2071
2072PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2073 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2074
2075PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2076 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2077 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2078 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2079 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2080 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2081 file.
2082
2083PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2084 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2085 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2086 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2087 these two options.
2088
2089PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2090 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2091 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2092 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2093 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2094 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2095 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 2096 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
2097
2098PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2099 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2100
2101PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2102 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2103 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2104 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2105 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2106 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2107
2108PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2109 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2110 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2111 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2112
2113PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2114 Finch).
2115
2116PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2117 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 2118
49c2d5ea
PH
2119PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2120 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
2121 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2122 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2123 message.
49c2d5ea 2124
bf759a8b
PH
2125PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2126
83364d30
PH
2127PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2128 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2129
7999bbd7
PH
2130PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2131 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2132 to what was transported.)
2133
7dbf77c9
PH
2134TF/01 Added $received_time.
2135
74e0617f
PH
2136PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2137 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2138 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2139 spamd_address settings.
2140
2f079f46
PH
2141PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2142 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2143 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2144 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2145 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2146
8c841523
PH
2147PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2148
7766a4f0
PH
2149PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2150 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2151 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2152 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2153 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2154
8b417f2c
PH
2155PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2156 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2157
901f42cb
PH
2158PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2159 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2160 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2161 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2162 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2163 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2164 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2165 for failure.
2166
f9b9210e
PH
2167PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2168 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2169 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2170 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2171 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2172 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2173 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2174 "input=".
2175
54cdb463
PH
2176PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2177
cf00dad6
PH
2178PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2179 driver and ACL definitions.
2180
acb1b346
PH
2181PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2182 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2183
c5ddb310
PH
2184PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2185 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2186 understands it better than I do:
2187
2188 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2189 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2190
2191 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2192 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2193 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2194 => three warnings about OTP not working
2195 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2196
2197 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2198 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2199 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2200 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2201 for each call.)
2202 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2203 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2204
2205 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2206 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2207 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2208
31619da6
PH
2209PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2210 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2211 specified.
2212
bebaf0fc
PH
2213PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2214 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2215 "Linux".
2216
475fe28a
PH
2217PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2218 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2219 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2220
2221 warn !verify = sender
2222 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
2223
2224 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
2225 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
2226
7e8bec7a
PH
2227PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
2228
2229 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
2230 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
2231
2232 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
2233 nomenclature these days.)
2234
e4a89c47
PH
2235PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
2236 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
2237
5ca2a9a1
PH
2238PH/30 In these circumstances:
2239 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
2240 . First host does not offer TLS;
2241 . First host accepts first address;
2242 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
2243 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
2244 . Second host accepts second address.
2245 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
2246 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
2247 address.
7e8bec7a 2248
c688b954
PH
2249PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
2250 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
2251 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
2252 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
2253 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
2254
fed77020
PH
2255PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
2256 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
2257
7fe1560f
PH
2258PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
2259 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 2260
ebb6e6d5
PH
2261PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
2262 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
2263 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
2264
9c4e8f60
PH
2265PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
2266 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
2267 overlooked.
2268
2269PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
2270
d7174846
PH
2271PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
2272 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
2273 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
2274 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
2275 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
2276 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
2277 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
2278
2279 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
2280 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
2281 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
2282 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
2283 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
2284
2285 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
2286 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
2287 routed further.
2288
cfe75fc3
PH
2289PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
2290 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
2291 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
2292 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
2293 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
2294 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
2295
be22d70e
PH
2296PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
2297
0612b098
PH
2298PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
2299 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
2300 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
2301 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
2302 printable escape sequences.
2303
2e0c1448
PH
2304PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
2305 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
2306 body only.
2307
447d236c
PH
2308PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
2309 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
2310 are as follows:
2311
2312 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
2313 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
2314 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
2315 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
2316 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
2317
2318 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
2319 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
2320 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
2321
d20976dc
PH
2322PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
2323
f656d135
PH
2324PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
2325 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
2326 play with."
2327
2e2a30b4
PH
2328PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
2329 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
2330 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
2331 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
2332 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
2333 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
2334 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
2335 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
2336 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
2337 the log output.
2338
9176e9f0
PH
2339PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
2340 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
2341 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
2342 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
2343 "make".
2344
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bbe902f0
PH
2346A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
2347----------------------------------------
2348
2349Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
2350changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
2351needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
2352in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
2353that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
2354release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
2355from 4.43.
2356
2357I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
23584.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
2359those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
2360historical information.
2361
2362
f7b63901 2363Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
2364-----------------
2365
5fe762f6
PH
2366 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
2367
139059f6 2368 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 2369 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 2370
7086e875
PH
2371 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
2372 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
2373 place.
2374
35af9f61
PH
2375 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
2376 filter fails to execute.
2377
b668c215
PH
2378 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
2379 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
2380 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
2381 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
2382 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
2383
a494b1e1
PH
2384 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
2385
2386 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
2387 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
2388 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
2389 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 2390
c5fcb476
PH
2391 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
2392 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
2393 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
2394 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
2395 control that does not make sense is encountered.
2396
69358f02
PH
2397 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
2398
5be20824
PH
239910. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
2400
eb2c0248
PH
240111. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
2402 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
2403 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
2404 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
2405
2a3eea10
PH
240612. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
2407 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
2408 sender verification.
2409
241013. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
2411 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
2412
23c7ff99
PH
241314. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
2414
4deaf07d
PH
241515. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
2416 connection timeout.
2417
926e1192
PH
241816. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
2419 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
2420
650edc6f
PH
242117. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
2422 the spool by the -Mrm option.
2423
2c7db3f5
PH
242418. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
2425 information about exactly what failed.
2426
3d235903
PH
242719. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
2428
7c7ad977
PH
242920. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
2430 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
2431 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
2432
981756db
PH
243321. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
2434 It is now set to "smtps".
2435
d4eb88df
PH
243622. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
2437 ignore_target_hosts.
2438
243923. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
2440 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
2441 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
2442 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
2443 "[x.x.x.x]".
2444
7d468ab8
PH
244524. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
2446 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
2447 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
2448
244925. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
2450 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
2451 wake it up if nothing else does.
2452
62c0818f
PH
245326. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
2454 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
2455 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
2456 end up negative.
2457
26034054
PH
245827. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
2459 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
2460
af66f652
PH
246128. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
2462
90af77f4
PH
246329. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
2464 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
2465 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
2466 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
2467 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
2468 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
2469 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
2470 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
2471
d8ef3577
PH
247230. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
2473 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
2474 than one IP address.
2475
5cb8cbc6
PH
247631. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
2477 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
2478 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
2479 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
2480
14702f5b
PH
248132. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
2482 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
2483 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
2484 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
2485 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
2486 1024 to 2048 bytes.
2487
063b1e99
PH
248833. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
2489 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
2490 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
2491 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
2492
652e1b65
PH
249334. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
2494 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
2495 respected.
2496
6f0c9a4f
PH
249735. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
2498 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
2499 $sender_host_address.
2500
33397d19
PH
250136. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
2502 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
2503 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
2504 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
2505 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
2506 very small.
2507
7bb56e1f
PH
250837. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
2509
2510 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
2511 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
2512
ea3bc19b
PH
2513 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
2514 just the host names, not the priorities.
2515
2516 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
2517 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
2518 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 2519
ea3bc19b 2520 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 2521 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 2522
0bcb2a0e
PH
252338. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
2524 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
2525 domain.
2526
2ac0e484
PH
252739. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
2528
4e1fde53
PH
252940. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
2530 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
2531
de365ded
PH
253241. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
2533 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
2534 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
2535
f05da2e8
PH
253642. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
2537
d6453af2
PH
253843. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
2539
f7b63901
PH
254044. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
2541
254245. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
2543 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
2544 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
2545 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
2546 because the tests only now provoked it.
2547
a444213a
PH
254846. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
2549 (this can affect the format of dates).
2550
0ec020ea
PH
255147. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
2552 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
2553 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
2554 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
2555
b1206957
PH
255648. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
2557
255849. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
2559 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
2560 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
2561 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
2562
26dd5a95
PH
256350. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
2564 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
2565 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
2566
343b2385
PH
256751. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
2568 autoreply.
2569
1c5466b9
PH
257052. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
2571 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
2572 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
2573 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
2574 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
2575 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
2576 is going on).
2577
55ee9ee3
PH
257853. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
2579 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
2580 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
2581 the line.
2582
d38f8232
PH
258354. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
2584 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
2585 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
2586
2587 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
2588 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
2589 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
2590 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
2591 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
2592 so I produce this patch..."
2593
3295e65b
PH
2594 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
2595 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
2596 is not defined.
2597
7102e136
PH
259855. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
2599 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
2600 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
2601 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 2602 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 2603
3ca0ba97
PH
260456. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
2605
c2bcbe20
PH
260657. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
2607 long debug lines gets shown.
2608
18ce445d
PH
260958. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
2610 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
2611
1f5b4c3d
PH
261259. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
2613
2614 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
2615 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
2616 of $primary_hostname.
2617
b975ba52
PH
261860. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
2619 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
2620 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
2621 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
2622 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
2623 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
2624 by change 4.50/55 above.
2625
2626 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
2627 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
2628 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
2629 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
2630 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
2631 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 2632 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
2633
263461. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
2635 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
2636 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 2637 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 2638
17ffcae7
PH
263962. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
2640 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
2641
d95f9fdb
PH
264263. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
2643 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
2644 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
2645 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
2646 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
2647
86b8287f
PH
264864. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
2649 This has been fixed.
2650
60dc5e56
PH
265165. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
2652 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
2653 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
2654 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
2655 the caching.)
2656
533244af
PH
265766. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
2658
a5a28604
PH
265967. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
2660 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
2661 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
2662 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
2663
7e634d24
PH
266468. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
2665 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
2666
3e11c26b
PH
266769. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
2668 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
2669 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
2670
6729cf78
PH
267170. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
2672 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
2673 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
2674 message there.
2675
00f00ca5
PH
267671. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
2677 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
2678 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
2679
c9bdd01c
PH
268072. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
2681 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
2682 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
2683 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
2684
d43194df
PH
268573. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
2686 during host lookups.
2687
fe5b5d0b
PH
268874. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
2689 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
2690
2691 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
2692
76a2d7ba
PH
269375. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
2694 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
2695 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
2696 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
2697 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
2698 background.
2699
270076. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
2701 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
2702
04f7d5b9
PH
270377. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
2704 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
2705 for the non-SMTP ACL.
2706
bc60667e
PH
270778. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
2708
bb6e88ff
PH
270979. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
2710 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
2711 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
2712 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
2713 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
2714 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
2715 process earlier.
2716
1e70f85b
PH
271780. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
2718 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
2719 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
2720 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
2721 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
2722
272381. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
2724 tables).
2725
4e01f9d6
PH
272682. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
2727
1ee1cef2
PH
272883. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
2729 "vacation" handling.
2730
6e2b4ccc
PH
273184. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
2732 OS variants using glibc.
2733
8e669ac1
PH
273485. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
2735
495ae4b0 2736
bbe902f0
PH
2737----------------------------------------------------
2738See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
2739----------------------------------------------------
2740
2741
2742Exim version 4.44
2743-----------------
2744
2745 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
2746 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
2747 transport
2748
2749 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
2750 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
2751 place.
2752
2753 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
2754 filter fails to execute.
2755
2756 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
2757 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
2758 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
2759 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
2760 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
2761
2762 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
2763 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
2764 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
2765 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
2766
2767 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
2768 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
2769 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
2770 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
2771 control that does not make sense is encountered.
2772
2773 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
2774
2775 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
2776 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
2777 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
2778 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
2779
2780 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
2781 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
2782 sender verification.
2783
278410. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
2785 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
2786
278711. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
2788 the spool by the -Mrm option.
2789
279012. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
2791 ignore_target_hosts.
2792
279313. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
2794 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
2795 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
2796 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
2797 "[x.x.x.x]".
2798
279914. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
2800 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
2801 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
2802
280315. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
2804 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
2805 wake it up if nothing else does.
2806
280716. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
2808 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
2809 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
2810 end up negative.
2811
281217. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
2813 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
2814
ea3a6f44 281518. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
2816
281719. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
2818 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
2819 empty pattern.
2820
282120. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
2822 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
2823 one IP address.
2824
ea3a6f44
NM
282521. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
2826 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
2827 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
2828 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
2829 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
2830 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 2831
ea3a6f44
NM
283222. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
2833 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
2834 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
2835
283623. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
2837 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
2838 $sender_host_address.
2839
284024. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
2841
ea3a6f44
NM
284225. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
2843 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
2844 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
2845
284626. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 2847 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 2848
ea3a6f44
NM
284927. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
2850 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 2851
ea3a6f44
NM
285228. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
2853 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
2854 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
2855 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
2856
285729. eximstats updated to version 1.35
2858 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
2859 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
2860
ea3a6f44
NM
286130. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
2862 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
2863 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
2864 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 2865
ea3a6f44
NM
286631. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
2867 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
2868 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 2869
ea3a6f44
NM
287031. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
2871 autoreply.
bbe902f0 2872
ea3a6f44
NM
287332. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
2874 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
2875 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
2876 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
2877 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
2878 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
2879 is going on).
bbe902f0 2880
ea3a6f44
NM
288133. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
2882 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
2883 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
2884 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
2885 CAN-2005-0021
2886
ea3a6f44
NM
288734. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
2888 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
2889 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
2890 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
2891 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
2892 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
2893 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
2894
2895 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
2896 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
2897 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
2898 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
2899 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
2900 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
2901 CAN-2005-0021
2902
ea3a6f44
NM
290335. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
2904 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
2905 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
2906 CAN-2005-0022
2907
ea3a6f44
NM
290836. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
2909 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
2910 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
2911 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
2912 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 2913
ea3a6f44
NM
291437. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
2915 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
2916 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
2917 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
2918 the caching.)
bbe902f0 2919
ea3a6f44
NM
292038. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
2921 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
2922 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
2923 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
2924 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
2925
2926
495ae4b0
PH
2927Exim version 4.43
2928-----------------
2929
2930 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
2931 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
2932 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
2933 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
2934 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
2935 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
2936 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
2937
2938 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
2939 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
2940 the delivery.
2941
2942 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
2943
2944 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
2945
2946 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
2947 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
2948 to local_scan().
2949
2950 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
2951 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
2952 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
2953 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
2954 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
2955
2956 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
2957 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
2958
2959 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
2960
2961 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
2962
296310. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
2964 header_sender only.
2965
296611. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
2967 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
2968
296912. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
2970 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
2971 affecting debugging statements).
2972
297313. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
2974
297514. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
2976 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
2977 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
2978 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
2979 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
2980 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
2981 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
2982 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
2983 after the received time, and all would be well.
2984
298515. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
2986 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
2987 condition in an expansion string.
2988
298916. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
2990
299117. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
2992 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
2993 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
2994 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
2995 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
2996 job under whatever limits there are.
2997
299818. Imported PCRE 5.0.
2999
300019. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3001 space).
3002
300320. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3004 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3005 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3006 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3007 return path is set.
3008
300921. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3010 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3011 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3012 binary data in such strings.
3013
301422. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3015
301623. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3017 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3018 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3019 failure, which is pointless.
3020
302124. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3022
302325. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3024
302526. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3026 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3027 Sender: header lines.
3028
302927. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3030 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3031 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3032
303328. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3034 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3035 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3036 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3037 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3038 happens.
3039
304029. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3041 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3042 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3043 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3044 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3045
304630. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3047 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3048 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3049 1024.
3050
305131. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3052 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3053
305432. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3055 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3056
305733. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3058
305932. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3060
306133. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3062
306334. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3064 syntax error.
3065
306635. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3067
306836. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3069
307037. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3071 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3072 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3073 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3074
307538. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3076 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3077
3078
3079Exim version 4.42
3080-----------------
3081
3082 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3083 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3084 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3085 it was not quoted.
3086 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3087 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3088 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3089 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3090 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3091 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3092
3093 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3094 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3095 verification failure".
3096
3097 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3098 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3099 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3100 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3101
3102 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3103 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3104 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3105 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3106 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3107 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3108 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3109 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3110 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3111 treated as a timeout.
3112
3113 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3114 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3115 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3116 not set for Exim filters).
3117
3118 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3119 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3120 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3121
3122 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3123
3124 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3125 try to make them clearer.
3126
3127 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3128 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3129
3130 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3131
3132 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3133
313410. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3135 only the Cygwin environment.
3136
313711. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3138 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3139 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3140 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3141 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
3142
314312. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
3144 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
3145 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
3146 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
3147 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
3148 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
3149 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
3150
315113. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
3152 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
3153
315414. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
3155
3156 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
3157 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
3158 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
3159
3160 To: susanne@some.where
3161
3162 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
3163 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
3164 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
3165 of addresses in From: header lines).
3166
3167 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
3168 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
3169 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
3170
3171 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
3172 treated as non-personal.
3173
3174 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
3175 because it now seems ill-conceived.
3176
317715. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
3178
317916. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
3180
318117. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
3182 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
3183 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
3184
318518. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
3186 ACL and the local_scan() function.
3187
318819. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
3189 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
3190 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
3191 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
3192 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
3193 (I found it when inspecting the code).
3194
319520. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
3196 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
3197 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
3198 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
3199 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
3200 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
3201 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
3202 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
3203
3204 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
3205
320621. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
3207 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
3208
320922. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
3210 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
3211 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
3212
321323. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
3214 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
3215
321624. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
3217 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
3218 rather than long int.
3219
322025. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3221
322226. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
3223
3224
3225Exim version 4.41
3226-----------------
3227
3228 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
3229 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
3230 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
3231 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
3232 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
3233 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
3234
3235
3236Exim version 4.40
3237-----------------
3238
3239 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
3240 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
3241
3242 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
3243 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
3244 socklen_t is defined.
3245
3246 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
3247 always exist.
3248
3249 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
3250 configured.
3251
3252 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
3253 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
3254 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
3255 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
3256 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
3257
3258 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
3259 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
3260 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
3261 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
3262
3263 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
3264 of flapping under certain conditions.
3265
3266 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
3267 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
3268 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
3269
3270 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3271
327210. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
3273
327411. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
3275 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
3276 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
3277 the duration of the SMTP connection.
3278
327912. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
3280 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
3281 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
3282 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
3283 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
3284 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
3285 preserved with the message after it was received.
3286
328713. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
3288 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
3289 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
3290 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
3291 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
3292 test suite worked just fine.
3293
329414. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
3295 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
3296 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
3297
329815. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
3299 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
3300 string.
3301
330216. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
3303 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
3304 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
3305 does not fully solve it.
3306
330717. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
3308 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
3309 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
3310 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
3311 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
3312
331318. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
3314 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
3315 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
3316
331719. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
3318 string, for example:
3319
3320 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
3321
3322 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
3323 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
3324 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
3325 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
3326 the routers could not see them.
3327
332820. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
3329 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
3330
333121. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
3332 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
3333 output).
3334
333522. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
3336 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
3337 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
3338 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
3339 that needed quoting.
3340
334123. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
3342 was not being matched caselessly.
3343
334424. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
3345 backslashes.
3346
334725. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
3348 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
3349 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
3350 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
3351 when use_sender is false.
3352
335326. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
3354
335527. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
3356
335728. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
3358
335929. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
3360 the configuration file.
3361
336230. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
3363 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
3364
336531. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
3366
336732. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
3368 bytes in the message body.
3369
337033. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
3371 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
3372 delivery.
3373
337434. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
3375
337635. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
3377
337836. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
3379 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
3380 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
3381 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
3382 another IP address.
3383
3384
3385Exim version 4.34
3386-----------------
3387
3388 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
3389 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
3390
3391 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
3392 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
3393 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
3394 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
3395 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
3396
3397 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
3398 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
3399
3400 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
3401 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
3402 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
3403
3404 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
3405 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
3406 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
3407
3408 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
3409 for routers.
3410
3411 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
3412 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
3413 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
3414 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
3415 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
3416 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
3417 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
3418
3419
3420Exim version 4.33
3421-----------------
3422
3423 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
3424 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
3425 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
3426 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
3427 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
3428 default (and expected) setting.
3429
3430 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
3431 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
3432 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
3433 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
3434
3435 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
3436 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
3437
3438 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
3439 in domain lists.
3440
3441 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
3442 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
3443 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
3444 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
3445 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
3446 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
3447
3448 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
3449 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
3450 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
3451
3452 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
3453 part (NOT match_host).
3454
3455 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
3456
3457 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
3458 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
3459 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
3460 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
3461 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
3462 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
3463 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
3464 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
3465 the same named file.
3466
346710. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
3468 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
3469 when Exim is built.
3470
347111. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
3472 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
3473 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
3474 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
3475 a host name.
3476
347712. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
3478 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
3479 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
3480
348113. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
3482
348314. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
3484
348515. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
3486
348716. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
3488 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
3489
349017. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
3491 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
3492 before starting the TLS session.
3493
349418. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
3495
349619. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
3497 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
3498
349920. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
3500 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
3501 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
3502 colon in the middle).
3503
3504
3505Exim version 4.32
3506-----------------
3507
3508 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
3509 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
3510 multiple configurations are in use.
3511
3512 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
3513 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
3514 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
3515 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
3516 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
3517 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
3518
3519 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
3520 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
3521
3522 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
3523 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
3524 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
3525
3526 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
3527 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
3528 occurs.
3529
3530 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
3531