Add dnsdb lookup pseudo-type "a+". Addresses bug 1269.
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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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4Exim version 4.81
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6
7PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
8
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9PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
10 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
11
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12PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
13 by GnuTLS.
14
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15PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
16 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
17 routines.
18
13363eba 19PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 20
66645890 21PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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22 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
23 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
24 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
25 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 26
a3fb9793 27PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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28 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
29 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
30 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 31 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 32 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 33
d27f98fe 34TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 35
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36TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
37
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38TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
39 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
40
ae0e32ee 41TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 42 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 43 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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44
45TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 46
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47JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
48
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49JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
50
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51PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
52
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53NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
54 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 55
585121e2 56JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 57
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58PP/09 Add gnutls_enable_pkcs11 option.
59
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60PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
61 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
62
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63JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
64 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
65 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 66
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67JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
68
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69JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
70
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73
74PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
75 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
76 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
77
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78NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
79
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80NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
81 improved.
82
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83NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
84
c1e794ba 85PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 86
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87PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
88
89PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
90 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
91
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92PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
93 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
94
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95PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
96 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
97
f1e05cc7 98PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
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99 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
100 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 101
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102PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
103
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104PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
105 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
106
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107PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
108
c45dd180 109PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 110
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111PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
112 non-compliant senders.
113 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
114
eae0036b 115NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
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116 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
117 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
118
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119PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
120 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
121 in spool file corruption.
122
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123PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
124 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
125 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
126 "Got SSL error 2".
127
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128TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
129 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
130 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
131
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132JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
133 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
134
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135JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
136
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137PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
138 diagnostics.
139 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
140
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141PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
142 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
143 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
144
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145PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
146 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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147 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
148 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 149
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150PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
151 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
152
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153PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
154 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
155 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
156 resolver implementation change.
157
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158PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
159 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
160
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161PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
162
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163PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
164
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165PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
166 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
167
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168PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
169 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
170
9e45c72b 171JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
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172 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
173
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174PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
175 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
176 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
177 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 178 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 179
53947857 180PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 181
eae0036b 182PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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183 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
184 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 185
9e45c72b 186JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 187
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188PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
189 read-only, out of scope).
190 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
191
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192PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
193 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
194 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
195 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
196
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197PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
198
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199PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
200 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
201 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
202 real issues in debug logging.
203
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204PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
205 assignment on my part. Fixed.
206
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207PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
208 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
209 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
210
211PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
212 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
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213 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
214 problems.
3375e053 215
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216PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
217 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
218
57eb9e91 219PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
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220 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
221 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
222 needs to override this, it can.
223
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224PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
225 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
226 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
227
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228PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
229 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
230 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
231 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
232
3ecab157 233PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 234
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238
239PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
240 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
241
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242TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
243
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244TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
245 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 246
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247TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
248 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
249
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250TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
251 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
252 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
253
254 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
255 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
256 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
257 not safe for signals.
258
259 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
260 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
261 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
262 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
263 exiwhat.
264
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265TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
266
267 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
268 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
269 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
270 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
271 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
272
273 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
274 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
275 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
276 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
277 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
278 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
279
280 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
281 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
282 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
283 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
284
285 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
286 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
287 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
288 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
289
290 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
291 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
292 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
293 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
294 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
295 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
296 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
297 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
298 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
299
300 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
301 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
302 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
303 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
304
305 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
306 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
307 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
308 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
309 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
310 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
311 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
312 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
313 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
314 details in the main documentation.
315
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316TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
317
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318TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
319
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320TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
321 repository when doing development or release builds.
322
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323PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
324 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 325
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326PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
327 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
328 Bugzilla 97.
329
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330PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
331
9e949f00 332PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
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333 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
334
335PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
336 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 337
555ae6af 338PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
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339 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
340
341PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
342 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 343
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344PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
345 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
346
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347PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
348 Bugzilla 1156.
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349 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
350 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 351
d6cc7c78 352PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
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353 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
354 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
355
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356PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
357
3399bb60 358PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
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359
360PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
361 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
362
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364Exim version 4.76
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366
367PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
368
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369PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
370 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
371
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372PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
373
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374PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
375
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376PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
377 Bugzilla 1098.
378
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379PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
380 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 381
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382TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
383 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
384
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385PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
386 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
387
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388PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
389 Bugzilla 1104.
390
c8d52a00 391TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
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392 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
393
394TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
395 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
396 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
397 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
398
399PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
400 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 401
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405
4c9ef03a 406NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
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407 Bugzilla 1073
408
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409TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
410 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
411 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
412
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413TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
414 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
415
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416PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
417 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
418 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
419
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420PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
421 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
422
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423PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
424 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
425
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426NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
427 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
428
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429NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
430 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
431
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432PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
433 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 434
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435NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
436 Fixes bug 943.
437
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438PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
439 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
440
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441PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
442 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
443
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444PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
445 SQL string expansion failure details.
446 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
447
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448PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
449 Patch from Simon Arlott.
450
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451PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
452 extern declarations in function scope.
453 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
454
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455PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
456 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
457 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
458 a kernel bug).
459
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460PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
461 Patch from Mark Zealey.
462
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463PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
464 Patch from Mark Zealey.
465
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466PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
467 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
468
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469PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
470 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
471
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472NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
473 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
474 Dennis Davis.
475
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476PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
477
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478PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
479
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480NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
481 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 482
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483TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
484 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
485
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487Exim version 4.74
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489
490TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
491 consequences so log it to the panic log.
492
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493TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
494 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
495
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496TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
497
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498DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
499 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
500 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
501
502PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
503 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
504 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
505
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506PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
507 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
508 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
509 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
510
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511PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
512 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
513 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
514 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
515
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516PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
517 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
518 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
519 arbitrary files.
520
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521PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
522 (Wolfgang Breyha)
523
b7487bce
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524PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
525 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
526 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
527 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
528 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
529
8c07b69f 530
97fd1e48 531Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 532-----------------
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533
534PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
535 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
536 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
537
6901c596
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538PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
539 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
540
a8c8d6b5
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541JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
542
77bb000f
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543PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
544
a29e5231
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545PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
546
ec5a0394 547PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 548
55c75993
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549PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
550
453a6645 551PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
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552 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
553 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
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554 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
555
8544e77a
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556PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
557 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
558 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
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559 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
560 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 561
83e029d5
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562PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
563
ed7f7860
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564PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
565
7d9f747b
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566PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
567
4b2241d2
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568PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
569
10385c15
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570PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
571
dbc4b90d
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572PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
573
532be449
PP
574PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
575
6a8de854 576PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
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577 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
578 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 579
5dc43717
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580JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
581
582JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
583 "exim" to be used
55c75993 584
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585PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
586 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
587
491fab4c
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588PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
589 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
590 Notification from John Horne.
591
13eb9497
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592PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
593 compatible.
594
595PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
596 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
597 it normally works.
598
7f36d675
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599DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
600 access.
601
c1d94452
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602DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
603 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
604 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
605
e2f5dc15
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606DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
607 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
608 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
609 configuration file.
610
cd25e41d
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611DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
612 option (effectively making it always true).
613
261dc43e
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614DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
615 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
616
fa32850b
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617DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
618 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
619
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620PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
621 run-time user, instead of root.
622
43236f35 623PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
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624 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
625
fb08281f
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626DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
627 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
628 arguments.
3346ab01 629
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630DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
631 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
632 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
633
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634DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
635
57730b52
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636NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
637
66581d1e 638
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639Exim version 4.72
640-----------------
641
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642JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
643 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
644 typos
465e92cf 645
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646JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
647 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
648 (Finput)
edae0343 649
9bd3e22c
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650NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
651 Patch from Alain Williams
652
bb576ff7
NM
653NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
654
5a1a5845
NM
655NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
656 Patch from Andreas Metzler
657
981a9fad
NM
658NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
659 Patch from Kirill Miazine
660
7fc497ee
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661NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
662
1a41defa
JJ
663JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
664
a466095c 665NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 666 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 667
94a6bd0b
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668TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
669
670TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
671
672MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
673 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
674 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
675
c1b141a8
NM
676NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
677 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 678
b26eacf1 679NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
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680 Patch by Simon Arlott
681
179c5980 682PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 683 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 684
9bd3e22c 685
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686Exim version 4.71
687-----------------
688
7d9f747b 689TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 690
f013fb92
NM
691NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
692
0eb8eedd
NM
693NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
694
663ee6d9
NM
695NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
696
177ebd9b
NM
697NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
698
7c6d71af 699
210f147e
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700Exim version 4.70
701-----------------
702
cdd3bb85 703TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 704 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
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705
706TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
707 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 708 Hirsch).
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709
710TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
711 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 712 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
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713
714TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
715 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
716
210f147e
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717NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
718 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
719 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
720 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
721
deafd5b3
NM
722NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
723 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 724 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 725
089793a4
TF
726TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
727
5f16ca82
TF
728TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
729
dae9d94e 730NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 731 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 732
7d9f747b 733NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 734
06864c44
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735TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
736 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
737 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
738 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
739
65a7d8c3 740NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 741 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 742
23510047 743TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 744
7d9f747b 745NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 746
7d8eec3a 747NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 748 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 749
89dec7b6
TF
750TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
751 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 752
a99de90c
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753TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
754 that they are available at delivery time.
755
e2803e40
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756TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
757
7199e1ee
TF
758TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
759 incoming_port log selectors.
760
e276e04b
TF
761TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
762 setting expands to an empty string.
763
ce552449 764NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 765 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 766
e765a0f1 767NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 768 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 769
4f054c63 770NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 771 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 772
7d9f747b
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773NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
774 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 775
7d9f747b
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776NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
777 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 778
b52bc06e 779NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 780 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 781
447de4b0
NM
782NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
783
4c69d561 784NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 785 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 786
d5c39246 787NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 788 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 789
0b23848a
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790TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
791
8f3414a1 792NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 793 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 794
fb6f955d
NM
795NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
796
797NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 798
7d9f747b
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799NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
800 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 801
7d9f747b
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802NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
803 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 804
7d9f747b
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805NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
806 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 807
7d9f747b
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808NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
809 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 810
7d9f747b
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811NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
812 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 813
7d9f747b
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814NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
815 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 816
7d9f747b
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817NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
818 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 819
7d9f747b 820NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 821 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 822
7d9f747b 823NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 824
7d9f747b
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825NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
826 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 827
7d9f747b 828NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 829
7d9f747b 830NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 831
7d9f747b 832NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 833
7d9f747b 834NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 835
17792b53 836NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 837 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 838
7d9f747b
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839NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
840 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 841
91576cec 842NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 843 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 844
7d9f747b
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845NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
846 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 847
7d9f747b 848NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 849
7d9f747b 850NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 851
7d9f747b 852NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 853
7d9f747b 854NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 855
deafd5b3 856
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857Exim version 4.69
858-----------------
859
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860TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
861 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
862 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
863
864 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
865 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
866 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
867 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
868 build errors in sieve.c.
869
81ea09ca
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870NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
871 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
872 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
873
f13cddcb
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874SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
875
7d9f747b 876NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 877
7d9f747b 878NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 879
7d9f747b 880NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
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881
882
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883Exim version 4.68
884-----------------
885
886PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
887
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888PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
889 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
890 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
891 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
892 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
893 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
894 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
895 for iplsearch lookups.
896
897 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
898 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
899 previously such lookups could never work.
900
901 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
902 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
903 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
904
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905TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
906 version.
907
0806a9c5
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908MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
909 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
910 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
911 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
912 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
913 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
914
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915TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
916 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
917
0f2cbd1b
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918MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
919 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
920 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
921 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
922 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
923 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
924
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925PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
926 local_scan API.
927
93655c46
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928PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
929
6c512171
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930PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
931 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
932 encrypted.
933
934PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
935 by clients under certain conditions.
936
aa6dc513
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937PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
938 "_responses" off the end of the name.
939
a96603a0
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940PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
941
8f240103
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942PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
943 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
944
945PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
946
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947PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
948
d52120f2
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949PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
950
64f2600a
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951PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
952 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
953
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954PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
955
a4dc33a8
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956PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
957 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
958
d6a60c0f
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959PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
960
8f128379
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961PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
962
8932dffe
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963PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
964 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
965 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
966 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 967
ddea74fa 968PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
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969 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
970 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
971
ddea74fa 972PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
973 and InterBase are left for another time.)
974
ddea74fa
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975PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
976
ce9f225c
PH
977PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
978
19897d52
PH
979PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
980
bc64a74d
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981PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
982 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
983 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
984
eb4c0de6 985
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986Exim version 4.67
987-----------------
988
22ad45c9
MH
989MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
990 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
991 Jan Srzednicki.
992
b4ed4da0
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993PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
994 issue a MAIL command.
995
431b7361
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996PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
997
998 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
999
1000 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1001 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1002 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1003 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1004 item. This has been fixed.
1005
1006PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1007 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1008
83da1223
PH
1009PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1010 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1011
54fc8428
PH
1012PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1013 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1014 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1015
34c5e8dd
SC
1016SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1017
bbe15da8
PH
1018PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1019 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1020 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1021 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1022 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1023
0e8a9471
MH
1024MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1025 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1026 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1027
f0872424
PH
1028PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1029 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1030 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1031 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1032
b01dd148
PH
1033PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1034
6bf342e1
PH
1035PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1036
273f34d0
PH
1037PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1038 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1039 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1040 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1041 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1042
cf8b11a5
PH
1043PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1044
41c7c167
PH
1045PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1046 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1047 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1048 values).
1049
9c57cbc0
PH
1050PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1051
f3f065bb
PH
1052PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1053
047bdd8c
PH
1054PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1055
0ce9abe6
PH
1056PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1057
0e22dfd1
PH
1058PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1059
4c590bd1
PH
1060PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1061 no_callout_flush is set.
1062
09945f1e
PH
1063PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1064 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1065 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1066 fixed.
1067
c51b8e75
PH
1068PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1069
e28326d8
PH
1070PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1071 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1072 other ACL rejections are.
1073
75b1493f
PH
1074PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1075 with slight modification.
1076
7c5214ec
PH
1077PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1078 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1079
4311097e
PH
1080PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1081 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1082 connection.
1083
29f89cad
PH
1084PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1085 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1086
5e687460
SC
1087SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1088
c3611384
PH
1089PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1090 expansion side effects.
1091
5a11a7b4
PH
1092PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1093 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1094 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1095 be the same.
1096
0e20aff9
MH
1097MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1098 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1099 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1100
ca86f471
PH
1101PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1102 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1103 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1104 were accidentally chopped off.
1105
a14e5636
PH
1106PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1107 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1108 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1109 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1110 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1111 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1112 pipelining has not been advertised.
1113
ec95d1a6
PH
1114PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1115
42855d71
PH
1116PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1117 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1118 This has been fixed.
1119
57c2c631
PH
1120PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1121 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1122 reported on Solaris.
1123
58c01c94
PH
1124PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1125 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1126 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1127 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1128 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1129 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1130 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1131
dee5a20a
PH
1132PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1133 cpus.
1134
d2ee6114
PH
1135PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1136
b2d5182b
PH
1137PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1138
79749a79
PH
1139PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1140 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1141 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1142 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1143 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1144 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1145
c456d9bb
PH
1146PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1147 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1148 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1149 host_all_ignored option.
1150
cd9868ec
PH
1151PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1152 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1153 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1154 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1155 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1156 is what is supposed to happen).
1157
ebeaf996
PH
1158PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1159 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1160 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1161 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1162 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1163 uses the Exim user.
1164
2679d413
PH
1165PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1166 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1167 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1168 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1169 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1170 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1171 users.
1172
84024b72
PH
1173PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1174
8005d38e
SC
1175SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1176 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1177 (Jez Hancock).
1178 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1179 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1180
3298c6c6
SC
1181SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1182
a43a27c5
PH
1183PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1184
58eb016e 1185PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1186 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1187 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1188 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1189 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1190 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1191 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1192 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1193 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1194 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1195 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1196
b43a74ea
PH
1197PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1198 advertised in response to EHLO.
1199
b4ed4da0 1200
5dd1517f
PH
1201Exim version 4.66
1202-----------------
1203
1204PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1205 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1206
1207 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1208 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1209
1210 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1211 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1212 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1213
1214 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1215 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1216 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1217 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1218 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1219
1220
93cfa765
TK
1221Exim version 4.65
1222-----------------
1223
1224TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1225 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1226 versions. (#438)
1227
d6066548
MH
1228MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1229 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1230 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1231
4362ff0d
PH
1232PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1233 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1234 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1235 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1236 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1237 rather than extend the field.
1238
93cfa765 1239
944e9e9c
TF
1240Exim version 4.64
1241-----------------
aa41d2de 1242
21d74bd9
TK
1243TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1244 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1245 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1246 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1247 these files.
1248
1249TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1250 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1251 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1252
1253TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1254 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1255 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1256
1257TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1258 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1259 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1260 in the field name.
1261
2b1c6e3a
PH
1262PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1263 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1264 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1265 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1266 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1267 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1268 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1269 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1270 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1271 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1272 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1273
1f872c80
PH
1274PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1275 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1276
1277PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1278 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1279 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1280 ignores EPIPE as well.
1281
d203e649
PH
1282PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1283 (quoted-printable decoding).
1284
cc2ed8f7 1285PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1286 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1287
ddfcd446
PH
1288PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1289
d45b1de8
PH
1290PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1291
1292PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1293
38a0a95f 1294PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1295 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1296
a2405d83
JJ
1297JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1298 in 4.64-PH/09.
1299
1300JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1301 miscellaneous code fixes
1302
6ea85e9a
PH
1303PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1304 rejections.
1305
26da7e20
PH
1306PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1307 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1308 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1309 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1310 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1311 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1312 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1313 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1314
14aa5a05 1315PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1316 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1317 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1318 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1319 function.
1320 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1321 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1322 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1323 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1324 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1325 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1326 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1327 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1328 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1329
ff75a1f7
PH
1330PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1331 decoding.
1332
e6f6568e
PH
1333PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1334 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1335 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1336 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1337 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1338 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1339 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1340 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1341
d6f6e0dc
PH
1342PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1343 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1344 list.
1345
322050c2
PH
1346PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1347 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1348 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1349 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1350 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1351 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1352 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1353 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1354 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1355 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1356 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1357 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1358 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1359
08955dd3
PH
1360PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1361 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1362 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1363 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1364 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1365 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1366 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1367
1eccaa59
PH
1368PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1369 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1370 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1371 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1372 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1373 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1374 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1375 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1376 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1377 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1378
602e59e5
PH
1379PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1380 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1381 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1382 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1383 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1384
411ef850
PH
1385PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1386 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1387 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1388 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1389 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1390 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1391 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1392
7befa435
PH
1393PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1394 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1395 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1396 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1397 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1398 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1399 been verified.
1400
48da4259 1401PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1402 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1403 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1404 and authorization.)
1405
48da4259
PH
1406PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1407 if any retry times were supplied.
1408
d1d5595c
PH
1409PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1410 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1411 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1412
0ef732d9
PH
1413PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1414
328895cc
PH
1415PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1416
fd700877
PH
1417PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1418 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1419 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1420 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1421 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1422 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1423
8dce1a6f
PH
1424PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1425 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1426
17af4a17
PH
1427PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1428 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1429 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1430
1431PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1432 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1433 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1434 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1435 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1436 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1437 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1438 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1439 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1440
1441 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1442 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1443 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1444 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1445 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1446 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1447 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1448 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1449 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1450
1451 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1452 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1453 hammering the server.
1454
c1114884
PH
1455PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1456 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1457
7a0743eb
PH
1458PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1459
0d85fa3f
PH
1460PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1461 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1462 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1463
1bf43b78
PH
1464PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1465 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1466 one case where this was not true.
1467
520de300
PH
1468PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1469 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1470 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1471 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1472 fails.
1473
48c7f9e2
PH
1474PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1475 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1476 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1477 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1478 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1479 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1480 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1481 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1482 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1483 smtp transport.
1484
99ea1c86
PH
1485PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1486 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1487 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1488 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1489
a2042e78
PH
1490PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1491 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1492
4fbcfc2e
PH
1493PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1494 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1495 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1496
aa41d2de
PH
1497PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1498
af561417
PH
1499PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1500
3cc66b45
PH
1501PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1502
194cc0e4
PH
1503PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1504 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1505 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1506 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1507
a401ddaa
PH
1508PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1509 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1510
4e88a19f
PH
1511PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1512 be meaningful with "accept".
1513
d7d7b289
SC
1514SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1515 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1516
1517SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1518 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1519 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1520
1521SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1522 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1523 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1524 there is data to show.
1525 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1526
1527SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1528 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1529 as well as the number of messages.
1530
1531SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1532 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1533 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1534
1535SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1536 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1537 have a flag are now skipped.
1538
1539SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1540 Added the -emptyok flag.
1541
1542SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1543 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1544
0ea2a468
JJ
1545JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1546 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1547 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1548
1549JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1550 match 4.64-PH/13
1551
1552JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1553 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1554
1555JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1556
1557JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1558 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1559
8a10f5a4
PH
1560PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1561
30e18802
PH
1562PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1563 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1564 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1565 contravention of the specifications.
1566
55728a4f
PH
1567PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1568 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1569 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1570
d7837193
PH
1571PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1572 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1573 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1574
87054a31
PH
1575PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1576
ea2c01d2
MH
1577MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1578 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1579 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1580 some point in the past.
1581
e4fa6968
PH
1582PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1583 transport during callout processing was broken.
1584
56f5d9bd
PH
1585PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1586 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1587
922e1c28
PH
1588PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1589 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1590
21eb6e72
PH
1591PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1592 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1593
a0540757
PH
1594PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1595
944e9e9c 1596
478be7b0
SC
1597Exim version 4.63
1598-----------------
1599
1600SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1601 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1602
1603SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1604 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1605 there is data to show.
1606 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1607
1608SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1609 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1610
2b965a65
TF
1611TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1612 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1613
45b91596
PH
1614TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1615 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1616
c59f5781
TF
1617TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1618 submissions from trusted users.
1619
90fc3069
TF
1620TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1621 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1622
6083aca0
TF
1623TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1624 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1625 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1626 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1627 there is now a framework to start from.
1628
765b530f
PH
1629PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1630 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1631 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1632
4e167a8c
PH
1633PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1634
4608d683
PH
1635PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1636
b8dc3e4a
PH
1637PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1638
5418e93b
PH
1639PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1640 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1641 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1642
b4a9bda2
PH
1643PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1644 libradius.
1645
45b91596
PH
1646PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1647 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1648 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1649
5547e2c5
PH
1650PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1651 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1652 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1653 its arguments.
1654
dbcef0ea
PH
1655PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1656 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1657 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1658 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1659 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1660
25257489
PH
1661PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1662 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1663
c816d124
PH
1664PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1665
a9ccd69a
PH
1666PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1667 operations in malware.c.
1668
75fa1910
PH
1669PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1670 signatures.
1671
a7d7aa58
PH
1672PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1673 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1674 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1675 all.
1676
42119b09
PH
1677PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1678 statements to "add_header".
1679
41609df5
PH
1680PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1681 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1682
a5bd321b
PH
1683PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1684 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1685 latter.
1686
e85a7ad5 1687PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1688 so that it is now:
1689
e85a7ad5
PH
1690 ${if or { \
1691 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1692 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1693 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1694 }{no}{yes}}
1695
e85a7ad5
PH
1696 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1697 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1698
d8fe1c03
PH
1699PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1700 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1701
16282d2b
PH
1702PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1703 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1704 any possible encoding problems.
1705
35d40a98
PH
1706PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1707 but not after initializing Perl.
1708
034d99ab
PH
1709PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1710 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1711 apparently, which is not desirable.
1712
6ec97b1b
PH
1713PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1714 queries.
1715
e22ca4ac
JJ
1716JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1717 --not options
1718
1719JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1720
33d73e3b
PH
1721PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1722 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1723 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1724 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1725
9ecb03f3
PH
1726PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1727 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1728 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1729
084efe8d
PH
1730PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1731 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1732 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1733 0.12.
1734
366fc9f0
PH
1735PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1736 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1737 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1738 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1739 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1740
c59f5781 1741
c887c79e
TF
1742Exim version 4.62
1743-----------------
1744
1745TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1746 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1747
1cce3af8
PH
1748PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1749 patch).
1750
afb3eaaf
PH
1751PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1752 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1753 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1754 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1755 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1756 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1757 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1758 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1759 451 error is used.
1760
e173618b
PH
1761PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1762
dd16e114
PH
1763PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1764 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1765 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1766
f7fd3850
PH
1767PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1768 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1769 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1770 odd errors.
1771
d87df92c
PH
1772PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1773 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1774
7e9f683d
PH
1775PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1776 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1777 option (which defaults to 0600).
1778
bfad5236
PH
1779PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1780
01c490df
PH
1781PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1782 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1783 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1784 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1785 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1786 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1787 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1788
d6629cdc
PH
1789PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1790
1cce3af8 1791
214e2000
PH
1792Exim version 4.61
1793-----------------
1794
1795PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1796 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1797 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1798 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1799 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1800 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1801 addresses as local.
1802
f9daeae0
PH
1803PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1804 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1805
7e66e54d
PH
1806PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1807
c8ea1597
PH
1808PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1809 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1810 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1811 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1812 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1813 grumble.
1814
911f6fde
PH
1815PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1816 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1817
47ca6d6c
PH
1818PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1819 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1820 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1821 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1822 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1823
ed0e9820
PH
1824PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1825 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1826 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1827 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1828
eff37e47
PH
1829PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1830 be the same on different OS.
1831
1921d2ea
PH
1832PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1833 testing.
1834
b3f69ca8
JJ
1835JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1836 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1837
1838JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1839 in 4.61-PH/06
1840
424a1c63
PH
1841PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1842 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1843 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1844 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1845 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1846 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1847 bounce message.
1848
7a100415
PH
1849PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1850 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1851 when Exim was called.
1852
19b9dc85
PH
1853PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1854 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1855
309bd837
PH
1856PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1857 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1858 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1859 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1860
59e82a2a
PH
1861PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1862 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1863 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1864 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1865 changes:
1866
1867 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1868 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1869 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1870
1871 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1872 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1873 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1874
9edc04ce
PH
1875PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1876 feature).
1877
1349e1e5
PH
1878PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1879 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1880 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1881 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1882 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1883 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1884 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1885 values from the SRV records were lost.
1886
ea49d0e1
PH
1887PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1888 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1889 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1890
064a94c9
PH
1891PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1892 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1893 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1894
727071f8
PH
1895PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1896 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1897 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1898 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1899 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1900 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1901 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1902 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1903 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 1904 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 1905
f78eb7c6
PH
1906PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1907 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1908 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1909
21c28500
PH
1910PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1911 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1912
1913PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1914 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1915 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1916 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1917 is given.
1918
1688f43b
PH
1919PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1920 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1921 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1922
1923PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1924 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1925 PH/23 above applies.
1926
9675b384
PH
1927PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1928 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1929 (for which there is an explicit test).
1930
6a3f1455
PH
1931PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1932
dac79d3e
PH
1933PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1934 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1935 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1936 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1937 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 1938
5977a0b3
PH
1939PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1940 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1941 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1942 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1943
c91535f3
PH
1944PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1945 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1946 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1947
0d46a8c8
PH
1948PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1949
278c6e6c
PH
1950PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1951
2cbb4081
PH
1952PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1953 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1954 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1955
3eef829e
PH
1956PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1957 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1958 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1959 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1960 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1961
1ab95fa6
PH
1962PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1963 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1964 the message gets confusing).
1965
230205fc
PH
1966PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1967 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
1968 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
1969 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
1970
75e0e026
PH
1971PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
1972 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
1973 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
1974 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
1975 same order.
1976
1977PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
1978 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
1979 the different processes.
1980
145396a6
PH
1981PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
1982
3cd34f13
PH
1983PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
1984
11121d3d
JJ
1985JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
1986 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
1987
1988JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
1989 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
1990
1991JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
1992 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
1993 messages matching specified criteria.
1994
8def5aaf
PH
1995PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
1996
929ba01c
PH
1997PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
1998 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
1999
2632889e
PH
2000PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2001 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2002 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2003 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2004 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2005 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2006 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2007 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2008 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2009 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2010
944a9c55
PH
2011PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2012 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2013 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2014
4a23603b
PH
2015PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2016
4730f942
PH
2017PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2018 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2019 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2020 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2021 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2022 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2023 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2024 the variable.
2025
30dba1e6
PH
2026PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2027 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2028
382afc6b
PH
2029PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2030
a86229cf
PH
2031PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2032
50c99ba6
PH
2033PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2034
d35e429d
PH
2035PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2036 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2037 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2038 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2039 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2040 size of the count of files.
2041
f90d018c
PH
2042PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2043
75def545
PH
2044PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2045 used in LMTP mode:
2046
2047 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2048 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2049 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2050 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2051
2052 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2053 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2054 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2055
2056PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2057 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2058 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2059 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2060 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2061
c46782ef
PH
2062PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2063 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2064
71fafd95
PH
2065PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2066 will now be deprecated.
2067
2c5db4fd
PH
2068PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2069
9cf6b11a
JJ
2070JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2071 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2072 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2073
2074JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2075 with very large, slow to parse queues
2076
2077JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2078
2079JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2080
898d150f
PH
2081PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2082 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2083 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2084 SMTP output lines.
2085
46218253
PH
2086PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2087 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2088 Sieve code now uses this.
2089
e97957bc
PH
2090PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2091 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2092
81e509d7
PH
2093PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2094 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2095
3d240ff7
PH
2096PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2097
b37c4101
PH
2098PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2099 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2100 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2101 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2102 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2103
79378e0f
PH
2104PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2105 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2106 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2107 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2108
e49c7bb4
PH
2109PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2110
d114ec46
PH
2111PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2112
f3d7df6c
PH
2113PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2114 is preferred over IPv4.
2115
715ab376
PH
2116PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2117 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2118 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2119 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2120 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2121 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2122 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2123
6b31b150
PH
2124PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2125 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2126 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2127
2128PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2129
d515a917
PH
2130PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2131 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2132 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2133 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2134 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2135 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2136 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2137 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2138 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2139 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2140 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2141
9b8fadde
PH
2142PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2143 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2144 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2145
214e2000 2146
5de37277
PH
2147Exim version 4.60
2148-----------------
2149
cc38ddbf
PH
2150PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2151
2152 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2153 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2154
2155 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2156 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2157 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2158
72fdd6ae
PH
2159PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2160
2161 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2162 not a single digit.
2163
2164 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2165 string.
2166
2167 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2168 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2169 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2170 silly things.
2171
2172 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2173 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2174
2175 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2176 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2177
cb741023
PH
2178PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2179 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2180 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2181
f174f16e
PH
2182PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2183 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2184
c25242d7
PH
2185PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2186 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2187
2188 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2189
2190 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2191 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2192 this:
2193
2194 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2195
82c19f95
PH
2196PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2197 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2198 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2199 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2200 identical. For example:
2201
2202 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2203
2204 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2205 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2206 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2207
d7ffbc12
PH
2208PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2209 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2210 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2211 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2212
9f526266
PH
2213PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2214 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2215 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2216 message.
2217
87fcc8b9
PH
2218PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2219
2220 o fixes some comments
2221 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2222 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2223 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2224 and documents the missing references header update
2225
2226 and most important:
2227
2228 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2229 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2230 result)
2231
456682f5
PH
2232PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2233 Electronic Mail") by including:
2234
2235 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2236
2237 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2238 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2239 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2240 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2241 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2242
2243 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2244
2245 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2246
2247 The auto-replied keyword:
2248
2249 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2250 message by an automatic process,
2251
2252 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2253
2254 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2255 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2256
2257 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2258 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2259 other messages.
2260
3e46c1aa
PH
2261PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2262 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2263
49826d12
PH
2264PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2265
eba0c039
PH
2266PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2267 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2268 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2269
a0d6ba8a
PH
2270PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2271 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2272 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2273
f0917727
PH
2274PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2275 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2276 and treats the condition as false.
2277
096fee00
PH
2278PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2279
024bd3c2
PH
2280PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2281 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2282 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2283 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2284 not changing the active code.
2285
2286 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2287 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2288
2289 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2290 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2291
df199fec
PH
2292PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2293 (Bugzilla #53).
2294
d27f1df3
PH
2295PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2296 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2297 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2298 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2299 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2300 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2301 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2302 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2303 the text comparison.
2304
96776534
PH
2305PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2306 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2307 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2308 The same fix has been applied.
2309
5de37277 2310
9a799bc0
PH
2311Exim version 4.54
2312-----------------
2313
2314PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2315 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2316 It now does.
2317
99a4b039
PH
2318PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2319 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2320
2321PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2322
4b233853
PH
2323PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2324 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2325 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2326 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2327 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2328
8857ccfd
PH
2329TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2330 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2331 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2332 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2333 or /domain=).
2334
433a2980
PH
2335PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2336 testing suite.
2337
3e46c1aa 2338
9a799bc0 2339
e3a311ba
TK
2340Exim version 4.53
2341-----------------
2342
2343TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2344 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2345
13b685f9
PH
2346PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2347
395ff96d
PH
2348PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2349
5b68f6e4
PH
2350PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2351 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2352 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2353
1ab52c69
PH
2354PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2355 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2356 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2357
b07e6aa3
PH
2358PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2359 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2360 operating systems.
2361
254e032f
PH
2362PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2363 ${stat: expansion item.
2364
3af76a81
PH
2365PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2366 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2367
2548ba04
PH
2368PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2369 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2370 file for comments.
2371
b6c6011d
PH
2372PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2373
cf39cf57
PH
2374PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2375 setting.
2376
f1513293
PH
2377PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2378 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2379
727549a4
PH
2380TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2381
af46795e
PH
2382PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2383 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2384 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2385 the end of the subprocess.
2386
d7b47fd0
PH
2387PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2388 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2389 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2390 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2391 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2392
ee744174
JJ
2393JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2394
b582ab87
PH
2395TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2396
41a13e0a
PH
2397PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2398 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2399
f625cc5a
PH
2400PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2401
2402PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2403
21f7af35
PH
2404PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2405 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2406 HP-UX compiler.
2407
31480e42
PH
2408PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2409
2d280592
PH
2410PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2411 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2412 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2413
7cd1141b
PH
2414PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2415 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2416
2417PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2418 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2419
750af86e
PH
2420PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2421 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2422
2423 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2424 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2425
2426 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2427 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2428 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2429 contributed by a Radius user.
2430
2431PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2432 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2433
4304270b
TK
2434TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2435 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2436
750af86e
PH
2437PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2438 available.
2439
64ffc24f
PH
2440PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2441 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2442 received.
2443
5dd9625b
PH
2444PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2445 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2446 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2447 header lines when this was not necessary.
2448
5591031b
PH
2449PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2450
ba18e66a
PH
2451PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2452 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2453 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2454 exists".
2455
9cec981f
PH
2456PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2457 -bV or -d is used.
2458
aa2b5c79
PH
2459PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2460 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2461 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2462 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2463
48a53b7f
PH
2464PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2465
1c59d63b
PH
2466PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2467
671012da
TK
2468TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2469
1509d3a8
PH
2470PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2471
2472PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2473 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2474 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2475 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2476 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2477 settings.
2478
2479PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2480
2fe1a124
PH
2481PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2482 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2483 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2484 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2485 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2486 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2487 which is clearly wrong.
2488
8800895a
PH
2489PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2490
ccfdb010
PH
2491PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2492 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2493 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2494 subsequently added.
2495
1130bfb0
PH
2496PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2497 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2498
ebcb507f
PH
2499PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2500
c35e155c
PH
2501PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2502 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2503
95d1f782
PH
2504PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2505 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2506
fd6de02e
PH
2507PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2508 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2509
58de37c5
PH
2510PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2511 recipients, not senders.
2512
261cf466
TF
2513TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2514 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2515
3ee512ff
PH
2516PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2517
e08c430f
PH
2518PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2519
bef5a11f
PH
2520PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2521 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2522 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2523 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2524
7546de58
TF
2525TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2526
e5d5a95f
TF
2527TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2528 clock is set back in time.
2529
2e88a017
TF
2530TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2531 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2532
a5f65aa4
TF
2533TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2534 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2535
e7726cbf
PH
2536PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2537 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2538 (see PH/47 above).
2539
a7fdad5b
TF
2540TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2541 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2542 header rewrites.
2543
6af56900
PH
2544PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2545 type ("H").
2546
0925ede6
PH
2547PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2548
66afa403
TF
2549TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2550 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2551 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2552
0154e85a
TF
2553TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2554 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2555 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2556 helo verification defer as a failure.
2557
16f12c76
PH
2558PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2559 actual error message.
2560
bbe902f0 2561
e5a9dba6
PH
2562Exim version 4.52
2563-----------------
2564
2565TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2566
22c3b60b
PH
2567PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2568 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2569 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2570 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2571
06a9b4b5
PH
2572TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2573
c1ac6996
PH
2574PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2575 can still be requested.
2576
9c7a242c
PH
2577PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2578 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2579 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2580 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2581
87ba3f5f
PH
2582TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2583 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2584 circumstances, but probably never did.
2585
2586PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2587 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2588 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2589 in the header line.
2590
29aba418
TF
2591TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2592
fe0dab11
TF
2593TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2594 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2595
11d337a4
TK
2596TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2597
2598TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2599
415c8f3b
PH
2600PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2601 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2602 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2603 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2604 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2605 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2606
958541e9
PH
2607PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2608 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2609 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2610 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2611 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2612 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2613
c206415f
TK
2614TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2615 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2616
2a4be8f9
PH
2617PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2618 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2619
1cba11c5
SC
2620SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2621 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2622
2623SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2624
2625SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2626
2627SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2628
2629SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2630
2631SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2632
2633SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2634
1005d00e
TK
2635TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2636
2637TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2638 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2639 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2640
2641TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2642 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2643 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2644 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2645
9b4768fa
PH
2646PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2647 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2648 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2649
2650PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2651 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2652 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2653 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2654
0d7eb84a
PH
2655PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2656 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2657 to be made).
2658
2659PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2660 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2661 should work with maildirs and everything.
2662
40727bee
TK
2663TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2664 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2665
554d2369
TF
2666TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2667 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2668
1f922db1
PH
2669PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2670 function for BDB 4.3.
2671
ef213c3b
PH
2672PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2673
8ac170f3
PH
2674PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2675 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2676 involved.
2677
b1c749bb
PH
2678PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2679 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2680 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2681 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2682 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2683 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2684
4aac9b49
PH
2685PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2686 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2687 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2688 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2689 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2690 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2691 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2692 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2693
294520c8
TK
2694TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2695 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2696 details.
2697
5bd022fe
PH
2698PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2699 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2700
90e9ce59
PH
2701PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2702 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2703 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2704 test. It is now used for both.
2705
5ea81592
PH
2706PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2707 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2708 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2709 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2710 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2711 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2712
c6c2dc1d
PH
2713PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2714 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2715 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2716 string_vformat().
2717
fffffe4c
PH
2718PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2719 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2720 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 2721
9a26b6b2
PH
2722PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2723 experimental DomainKeys support:
2724
2725 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2726 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2727 the control was given.
2728
2729 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2730
4aee0225
PH
2731PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2732
32d668a5
PH
2733PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2734
8187c3f3
PH
2735PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2736 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2737 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2738 db.h files).
2739
ff790e47 2740PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
2741 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2742 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2743 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2744 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2745 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2746 course.
ff790e47 2747
5417f6d1
PH
2748PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2749 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2750 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2751 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2752 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2753 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2754
59cf8544
PH
2755PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2756 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2757 do -d+all out of habit.
2758
e7ad8a65
PH
2759PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2760 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2761 x86_64 Fedora Core.
2762
ade42478
PH
2763PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2764 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2765 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2766 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2767 record types that Exim uses.
2768
182ad5cf
PH
2769PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2770 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2771 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2772 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2773 non-existent file that was broken.
2774
b0d9fc80
TK
2775TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2776 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2777
2778TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2779 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2780 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2781
2782TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2783
47c7a64a
PH
2784PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2785 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2786 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2787 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2788 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2789 same time.
2790
a388bce4
SC
2791SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2792 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2793 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2794 at a slight CPU cost.
2795
2796SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2797 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2798
2799SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2800 by Marc Sherman.
2801
0793e4ed
SC
2802SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2803
c58b88df
PH
2804PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2805 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2806
e7ad8a65 2807
7982096b
PH
2808Exim version 4.51
2809-----------------
2810
1a46a8c5
PH
2811TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2812 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2813
2f079f46 2814TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
2815
2816TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2817
2818PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2819 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2820
2821PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2822 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2823 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2824 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2825 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2826 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2827 file.
2828
2829PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2830 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2831 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2832 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2833 these two options.
2834
2835PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2836 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2837 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2838 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2839 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2840 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2841 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 2842 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
2843
2844PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2845 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2846
2847PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2848 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2849 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2850 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2851 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2852 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2853
2854PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2855 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2856 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2857 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2858
2859PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2860 Finch).
2861
2862PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2863 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 2864
49c2d5ea
PH
2865PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2866 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
2867 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2868 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2869 message.
49c2d5ea 2870
bf759a8b
PH
2871PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2872
83364d30
PH
2873PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2874 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2875
7999bbd7
PH
2876PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2877 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2878 to what was transported.)
2879
7dbf77c9
PH
2880TF/01 Added $received_time.
2881
74e0617f
PH
2882PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2883 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2884 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2885 spamd_address settings.
2886
2f079f46
PH
2887PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2888 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2889 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2890 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2891 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2892
8c841523
PH
2893PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2894
7766a4f0
PH
2895PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2896 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2897 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2898 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2899 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2900
8b417f2c
PH
2901PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2902 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2903
901f42cb
PH
2904PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2905 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2906 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2907 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2908 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2909 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2910 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2911 for failure.
2912
f9b9210e
PH
2913PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2914 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2915 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2916 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2917 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2918 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2919 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2920 "input=".
2921
54cdb463
PH
2922PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2923
cf00dad6
PH
2924PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2925 driver and ACL definitions.
2926
acb1b346
PH
2927PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2928 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2929
c5ddb310
PH
2930PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2931 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2932 understands it better than I do:
2933
2934 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2935 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2936
2937 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2938 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2939 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2940 => three warnings about OTP not working
2941 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2942
2943 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2944 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2945 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2946 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2947 for each call.)
2948 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2949 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2950
2951 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2952 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2953 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2954
31619da6
PH
2955PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2956 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2957 specified.
2958
bebaf0fc
PH
2959PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2960 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2961 "Linux".
2962
475fe28a
PH
2963PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2964 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2965 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2966
2967 warn !verify = sender
2968 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
2969
2970 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
2971 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
2972
7e8bec7a
PH
2973PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
2974
2975 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
2976 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
2977
2978 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
2979 nomenclature these days.)
2980
e4a89c47
PH
2981PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
2982 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
2983
5ca2a9a1
PH
2984PH/30 In these circumstances:
2985 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
2986 . First host does not offer TLS;
2987 . First host accepts first address;
2988 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
2989 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
2990 . Second host accepts second address.
2991 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
2992 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
2993 address.
7e8bec7a 2994
c688b954
PH
2995PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
2996 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
2997 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
2998 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
2999 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3000
fed77020
PH
3001PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3002 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3003
7fe1560f
PH
3004PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3005 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3006
ebb6e6d5
PH
3007PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3008 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3009 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3010
9c4e8f60
PH
3011PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3012 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3013 overlooked.
3014
3015PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3016
d7174846
PH
3017PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3018 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3019 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3020 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3021 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3022 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3023 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3024
3025 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3026 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3027 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3028 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3029 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3030
3031 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3032 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3033 routed further.
3034
cfe75fc3
PH
3035PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3036 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3037 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3038 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3039 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3040 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3041
be22d70e
PH
3042PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3043
0612b098
PH
3044PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3045 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3046 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3047 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3048 printable escape sequences.
3049
2e0c1448
PH
3050PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3051 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3052 body only.
3053
447d236c
PH
3054PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3055 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3056 are as follows:
3057
3058 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3059 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3060 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3061 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3062 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3063
3064 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3065 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3066 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3067
d20976dc
PH
3068PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3069
f656d135
PH
3070PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3071 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3072 play with."
3073
2e2a30b4
PH
3074PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3075 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3076 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3077 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3078 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3079 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3080 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3081 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3082 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3083 the log output.
3084
9176e9f0
PH
3085PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3086 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3087 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3088 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3089 "make".
3090
7982096b 3091
bbe902f0
PH
3092A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3093----------------------------------------
3094
3095Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3096changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3097needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3098in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3099that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3100release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3101from 4.43.
3102
3103I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
31044.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3105those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3106historical information.
3107
3108
f7b63901 3109Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3110-----------------
3111
5fe762f6
PH
3112 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3113
139059f6 3114 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3115 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3116
7086e875
PH
3117 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3118 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3119 place.
3120
35af9f61
PH
3121 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3122 filter fails to execute.
3123
b668c215
PH
3124 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3125 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3126 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3127 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3128 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3129
a494b1e1
PH
3130 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3131
3132 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3133 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3134 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3135 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3136
c5fcb476
PH
3137 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3138 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3139 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3140 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3141 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3142
69358f02
PH
3143 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3144
5be20824
PH
314510. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3146
eb2c0248
PH
314711. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3148 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3149 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3150 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3151
2a3eea10
PH
315212. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3153 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3154 sender verification.
3155
315613. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3157 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3158
23c7ff99
PH
315914. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3160
4deaf07d
PH
316115. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3162 connection timeout.
3163
926e1192
PH
316416. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3165 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3166
650edc6f
PH
316717. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3168 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3169
2c7db3f5
PH
317018. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3171 information about exactly what failed.
3172
3d235903
PH
317319. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3174
7c7ad977
PH
317520. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3176 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3177 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3178
981756db
PH
317921. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3180 It is now set to "smtps".
3181
d4eb88df
PH
318222. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3183 ignore_target_hosts.
3184
318523. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3186 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3187 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3188 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3189 "[x.x.x.x]".
3190
7d468ab8
PH
319124. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3192 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3193 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3194
319525. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3196 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3197 wake it up if nothing else does.
3198
62c0818f
PH
319926. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3200 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3201 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3202 end up negative.
3203
26034054
PH
320427. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3205 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3206
af66f652
PH
320728. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3208
90af77f4
PH
320929. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3210 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3211 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3212 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3213 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3214 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3215 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3216 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3217
d8ef3577
PH
321830. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3219 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3220 than one IP address.
3221
5cb8cbc6
PH
322231. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3223 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3224 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3225 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3226
14702f5b
PH
322732. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3228 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3229 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3230 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3231 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3232 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3233
063b1e99
PH
323433. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3235 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3236 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3237 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3238
652e1b65
PH
323934. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3240 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3241 respected.
3242
6f0c9a4f
PH
324335. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3244 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3245 $sender_host_address.
3246
33397d19
PH
324736. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3248 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3249 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3250 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3251 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3252 very small.
3253
7bb56e1f
PH
325437. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3255
3256 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3257 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3258
ea3bc19b
PH
3259 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3260 just the host names, not the priorities.
3261
3262 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3263 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3264 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3265
ea3bc19b 3266 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3267 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3268
0bcb2a0e
PH
326938. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3270 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3271 domain.
3272
2ac0e484
PH
327339. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3274
4e1fde53
PH
327540. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3276 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3277
de365ded
PH
327841. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3279 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3280 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3281
f05da2e8
PH
328242. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3283
d6453af2
PH
328443. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3285
f7b63901
PH
328644. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3287
328845. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3289 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3290 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3291 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3292 because the tests only now provoked it.
3293
a444213a
PH
329446. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3295 (this can affect the format of dates).
3296
0ec020ea
PH
329747. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3298 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3299 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3300 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3301
b1206957
PH
330248. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3303
330449. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3305 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3306 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3307 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3308
26dd5a95
PH
330950. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3310 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3311 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3312
343b2385
PH
331351. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3314 autoreply.
3315
1c5466b9
PH
331652. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3317 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3318 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3319 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3320 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3321 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3322 is going on).
3323
55ee9ee3
PH
332453. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3325 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3326 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3327 the line.
3328
d38f8232
PH
332954. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3330 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3331 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3332
3333 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3334 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3335 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3336 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3337 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3338 so I produce this patch..."
3339
3295e65b
PH
3340 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3341 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3342 is not defined.
3343
7102e136
PH
334455. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3345 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3346 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3347 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3348 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3349
3ca0ba97
PH
335056. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3351
c2bcbe20
PH
335257. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3353 long debug lines gets shown.
3354
18ce445d
PH
335558. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3356 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3357
1f5b4c3d
PH
335859. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3359
3360 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3361 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3362 of $primary_hostname.
3363
b975ba52
PH
336460. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3365 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3366 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3367 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3368 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3369 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3370 by change 4.50/55 above.
3371
3372 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3373 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3374 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3375 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3376 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3377 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3378 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3379
338061. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3381 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3382 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3383 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3384
17ffcae7
PH
338562. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3386 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3387
d95f9fdb
PH
338863. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3389 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3390 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3391 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3392 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3393
86b8287f
PH
339464. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3395 This has been fixed.
3396
60dc5e56
PH
339765. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3398 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3399 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3400 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3401 the caching.)
3402
533244af
PH
340366. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3404
a5a28604
PH
340567. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3406 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3407 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3408 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3409
7e634d24
PH
341068. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3411 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3412
3e11c26b
PH
341369. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3414 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3415 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3416
6729cf78
PH
341770. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3418 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3419 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3420 message there.
3421
00f00ca5
PH
342271. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3423 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3424 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3425
c9bdd01c
PH
342672. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3427 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3428 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3429 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3430
d43194df
PH
343173. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3432 during host lookups.
3433
fe5b5d0b
PH
343474. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3435 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3436
3437 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3438
76a2d7ba
PH
343975. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3440 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3441 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3442 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3443 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3444 background.
3445
344676. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3447 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3448
04f7d5b9
PH
344977. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3450 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3451 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3452
bc60667e
PH
345378. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3454
bb6e88ff
PH
345579. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3456 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3457 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3458 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3459 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3460 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3461 process earlier.
3462
1e70f85b
PH
346380. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3464 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3465 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3466 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3467 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3468
346981. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3470 tables).
3471
4e01f9d6
PH
347282. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3473
1ee1cef2
PH
347483. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3475 "vacation" handling.
3476
6e2b4ccc
PH
347784. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3478 OS variants using glibc.
3479
8e669ac1
PH
348085. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3481
495ae4b0 3482
bbe902f0
PH
3483----------------------------------------------------
3484See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3485----------------------------------------------------
3486
3487
3488Exim version 4.44
3489-----------------
3490
3491 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3492 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3493 transport
3494
3495 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3496 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3497 place.
3498
3499 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3500 filter fails to execute.
3501
3502 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3503 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3504 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3505 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3506 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3507
3508 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3509 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3510 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3511 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3512
3513 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3514 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3515 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3516 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3517 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3518
3519 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3520
3521 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3522 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3523 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3524 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3525
3526 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3527 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3528 sender verification.
3529
353010. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3531 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3532
353311. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3534 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3535
353612. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3537 ignore_target_hosts.
3538
353913. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3540 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3541 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3542 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3543 "[x.x.x.x]".
3544
354514. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3546 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3547 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3548
354915. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3550 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3551 wake it up if nothing else does.
3552
355316. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3554 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3555 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3556 end up negative.
3557
355817. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3559 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3560
ea3a6f44 356118. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3562
356319. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3564 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3565 empty pattern.
3566
356720. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3568 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3569 one IP address.
3570
ea3a6f44
NM
357121. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3572 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3573 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3574 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3575 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3576 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3577
ea3a6f44
NM
357822. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3579 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3580 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3581
358223. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3583 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3584 $sender_host_address.
3585
358624. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3587
ea3a6f44
NM
358825. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3589 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3590 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3591
359226. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3593 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3594
ea3a6f44
NM
359527. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3596 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3597
ea3a6f44
NM
359828. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3599 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3600 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3601 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3602
360329. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3604 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3605 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3606
ea3a6f44
NM
360730. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3608 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3609 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3610 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3611
ea3a6f44
NM
361231. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3613 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3614 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3615
ea3a6f44
NM
361631. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3617 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3618
ea3a6f44
NM
361932. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3620 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3621 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3622 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3623 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3624 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3625 is going on).
bbe902f0 3626
ea3a6f44
NM
362733. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3628 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3629 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3630 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3631 CAN-2005-0021
3632
ea3a6f44
NM
363334. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3634 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3635 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3636 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3637 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3638 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3639 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3640
3641 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3642 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3643 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3644 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3645 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3646 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3647 CAN-2005-0021
3648
ea3a6f44
NM
364935. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3650 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3651 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3652 CAN-2005-0022
3653
ea3a6f44
NM
365436. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3655 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3656 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3657 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3658 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3659
ea3a6f44
NM
366037. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3661 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3662 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3663 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3664 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3665
ea3a6f44
NM
366638. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3667 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3668 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3669 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3670 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3671
3672
495ae4b0
PH
3673Exim version 4.43
3674-----------------
3675
3676 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3677 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3678 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3679 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3680 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3681 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3682 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3683
3684 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3685 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3686 the delivery.
3687
3688 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3689
3690 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3691
3692 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3693 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3694 to local_scan().
3695
3696 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3697 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3698 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3699 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3700 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3701
3702 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3703 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3704
3705 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3706
3707 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3708
370910. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3710 header_sender only.
3711
371211. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3713 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3714
371512. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3716 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3717 affecting debugging statements).
3718
371913. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3720
372114. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3722 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3723 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3724 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3725 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3726 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3727 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3728 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3729 after the received time, and all would be well.
3730
373115. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3732 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3733 condition in an expansion string.
3734
373516. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3736
373717. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3738 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3739 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3740 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3741 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3742 job under whatever limits there are.
3743
374418. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3745
374619. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3747 space).
3748
374920. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3750 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3751 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3752 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3753 return path is set.
3754
375521. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3756 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3757 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3758 binary data in such strings.
3759
376022. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3761
376223. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3763 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3764 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3765 failure, which is pointless.
3766
376724. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3768
376925. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3770
377126. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3772 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3773 Sender: header lines.
3774
377527. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3776 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3777 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3778
377928. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3780 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3781 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3782 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3783 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3784 happens.
3785
378629. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3787 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3788 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3789 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3790 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3791
379230. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3793 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3794 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3795 1024.
3796
379731. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3798 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3799
380032. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3801 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3802
380333. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3804
380532. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3806
380733. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3808
380934. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3810 syntax error.
3811
381235. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3813
381436. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3815
381637. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3817 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3818 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3819 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3820
382138. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3822 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3823
3824
3825Exim version 4.42
3826-----------------
3827
3828 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3829 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3830 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3831 it was not quoted.
3832 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3833 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3834 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3835 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3836 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3837 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3838
3839 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3840 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3841 verification failure".
3842
3843 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3844 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3845 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3846 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3847
3848 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3849 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3850 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3851 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3852 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3853 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3854 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3855 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3856 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3857 treated as a timeout.
3858
3859 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3860 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3861 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3862 not set for Exim filters).
3863
3864 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3865 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3866 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3867
3868 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3869
3870 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3871 try to make them clearer.
3872
3873 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3874 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3875
3876 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3877
3878 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3879
388010. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3881 only the Cygwin environment.
3882
388311. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3884 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3885 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3886 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3887 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
3888
388912. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
3890 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
3891 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
3892 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
3893 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
3894 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
3895 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
3896
389713. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
3898 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
3899
390014. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
3901
3902 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
3903 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
3904 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
3905
3906 To: susanne@some.where
3907
3908 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
3909 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
3910 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
3911 of addresses in From: header lines).
3912
3913 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
3914 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
3915 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
3916
3917 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
3918 treated as non-personal.
3919
3920 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
3921 because it now seems ill-conceived.
3922
392315. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
3924
392516. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
3926
392717. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
3928 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
3929 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
3930
393118. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
3932 ACL and the local_scan() function.
3933
393419. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
3935 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
3936 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
3937 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
3938 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
3939 (I found it when inspecting the code).
3940
394120. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
3942 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
3943 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
3944 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
3945 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
3946 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
3947 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
3948 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
3949
3950 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
3951
395221. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
3953 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
3954
395522. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
3956 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
3957 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
3958
395923. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
3960 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
3961
396224. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
3963 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
3964 rather than long int.
3965
396625. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3967
396826. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
3969
3970
3971Exim version 4.41
3972-----------------
3973
3974 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
3975 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
3976 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
3977 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
3978 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
3979 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
3980
3981
3982Exim version 4.40
3983-----------------
3984
3985 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
3986 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
3987
3988 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
3989 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
3990 socklen_t is defined.
3991
3992 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
3993 always exist.
3994
3995 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
3996 configured.
3997
3998 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
3999 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4000 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4001 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4002 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4003
4004 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4005 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4006 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4007 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4008
4009 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4010 of flapping under certain conditions.
4011
4012 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4013 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4014 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4015
4016 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4017
401810. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4019
402011. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4021 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4022 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4023 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4024
402512. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4026 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4027 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4028 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4029 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4030 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4031 preserved with the message after it was received.
4032
403313. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4034 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4035 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4036 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4037 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4038 test suite worked just fine.
4039
404014. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4041 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4042 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4043
404415. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4045 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4046 string.
4047
404816. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4049 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4050 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4051 does not fully solve it.
4052
405317. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4054 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4055 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4056 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4057 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4058
405918. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4060 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4061 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4062
406319. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4064 string, for example:
4065
4066 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4067
4068 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4069 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4070 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4071 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4072 the routers could not see them.
4073
407420. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4075 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4076
407721. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4078 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4079 output).
4080
408122. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4082 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4083 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4084 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4085 that needed quoting.
4086
408723. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4088 was not being matched caselessly.
4089
409024. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4091 backslashes.
4092
409325. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4094 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4095 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4096 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4097 when use_sender is false.
4098
409926. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4100
410127. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4102
410328. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4104
410529. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4106 the configuration file.
4107
410830. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4109 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4110
411131. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4112
411332. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4114 bytes in the message body.
4115
411633. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4117 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4118 delivery.
4119
412034. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4121
412235. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4123
412436. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4125 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4126 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4127 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4128 another IP address.
4129
4130
4131Exim version 4.34
4132-----------------
4133
4134 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4135 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4136
4137 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4138 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4139 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4140 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4141 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4142
4143 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4144 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4145
4146 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4147 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4148 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4149
4150 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4151 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4152 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4153
4154 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4155 for routers.
4156
4157 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4158 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4159 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4160 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4161 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4162 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4163 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4164
4165
4166Exim version 4.33
4167-----------------
4168
4169 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4170 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4171 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4172 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4173 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4174 default (and expected) setting.
4175
4176 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4177 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4178 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4179 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4180
4181 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4182 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4183
4184 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4185 in domain lists.
4186
4187 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4188 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4189 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4190 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4191 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4192 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4193
4194 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4195 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4196 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4197
4198 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4199 part (NOT match_host).
4200
4201 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4202
4203 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4204 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4205 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4206 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4207 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4208 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4209 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4210 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4211 the same named file.
4212
421310. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4214 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4215 when Exim is built.
4216
421711. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4218 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4219 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4220 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4221 a host name.
4222
422312. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4224 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4225 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4226
422713. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4228
422914. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4230
423115. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4232
423316. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4234 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4235
423617. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4237 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4238 before starting the TLS session.
4239
424018. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4241
424219. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4243 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4244
424520. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4246 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4247 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4248 colon in the middle).
4249
4250
4251Exim version 4.32
4252-----------------
4253
4254 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4255 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4256 multiple configurations are in use.
4257
4258 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4259 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4260 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4261 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4262 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4263 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4264
4265 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4266 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4267
4268 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4269 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4270 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4271
4272 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4273 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4274 occurs.
4275
4276 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4277 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4278
4279 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4280
4281 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4282 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4283
4284 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4285
4286 -prval:sval
4287
4288 is equivalent to
4289
4290 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4291
4292 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4293 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4294 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4295 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4296 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4297
429810. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4299 Exim's behaviour:
4300
4301 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4302 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4303 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4304 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4305 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4306 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4307
4308 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4309 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4310 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4311 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4312 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4313 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4314 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4315 string.
4316
4317 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4318 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4319 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4320 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4321 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4322
432311. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4324
432512. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4326 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4327 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4328
432913. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4330
433114. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4332 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4333 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4334 information.
4335
433615. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4337 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4338
433916. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4340 Three changes have been made:
4341
4342 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4343 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4344 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4345 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4346 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4347
4348 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4349 been restored.
4350
4351 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4352 the modified behaviour.
4353
4354
4355Exim version 4.31
4356-----------------
4357
4358 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4359 Larry Rosenman.
4360
4361 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4362 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4363
4364 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4365 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4366 try to track down a specific problem.
4367
4368 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4369 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4370 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4371
4372 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4373 warning.
4374
4375 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4376 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4377 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4378 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4379 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4380 some earlier ones do not.
4381
4382 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4383
4384 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4385 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4386 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4387 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4388 address literals are enabled, of course).
4389
4390 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4391
439210. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4393 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4394 by a command such as
4395
4396 exim -f "" ...
4397
4398 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4399
440011. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4401
440212. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4403 remained set. It is now erased.
4404
440513. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4406 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4407
440814. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4409 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4410 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4411 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4412 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4413 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4414 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4415 appropriate error code.
4416
441715. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4418 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4419 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4420 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4421 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4422 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4423
442416. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4425 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4426 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4427
442817. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4429 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4430 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4431 terminate the header.
4432
443318. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4434 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4435 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4436
443719. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4438 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4439 (4.30/29). In particular:
4440
4441 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4442 imposed.
4443
4444 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4445 to write a maildirsize file.
4446
4447 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4448 the transport, the new value overrides.
4449
4450 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4451 count.
4452
445320. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4454 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4455 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4456 space or a tab.
4457
445821. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4459 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4460 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4461 the fallback hosts.
4462
446322. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4464 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4465 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4466
446723. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4468 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4469 using a union.
4470
447124. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4472 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4473 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4474
447525. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4476
447726. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4478
447927. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4480
448128. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4482 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4483 become corrupted.
4484
448529. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4486 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4487 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4488 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4489 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4490 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4491 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4492 too great.
4493
449430. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4495 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4496 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4497 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4498 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4499 incorrectly.
4500
450131. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4502 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4503 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4504 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4505 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4506 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4507 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4508 cached value only when the same options are set.
4509
451032. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4511
451233. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4513 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4514 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4515 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4516 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4517
451834: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4519 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4520 it is clearly obsolete.
4521
452235. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4523 transport.
4524
452536. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4526 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4527 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4528 times.
4529
453037. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4531 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4532 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4533 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4534 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4535
453638. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4537 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4538 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4539 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4540
454139. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4542
4543 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4544
4545 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4546 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4547 2^31.
4548
454940. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4550 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4551 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4552 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4553 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4554 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4555 $localpart_data.
4556
455741. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4558 with the -f command-line option.
4559
456042. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4561 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4562 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4563 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4564 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4565 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4566
456743. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4568 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4569 line.
4570
457144. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4572 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4573 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4574 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4575 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4576 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4577 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4578 buffer is too small.
4579
458045. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4581 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4582
458346. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4584 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4585 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4586 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4587 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4588 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4589 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4590 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4591 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4592
459347. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4594 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4595 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4596
459748. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4598 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4599 ACL").
4600
460149. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4602 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4603 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4604 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4605 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4606
460750. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4608 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4609 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4610 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4611 is set.
4612
461351. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4614
461552. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4616
461753. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4618 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4619
462054. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4621 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4622 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4623
462455. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4625 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4626 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4627 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4628 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4629
463056. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4631 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4632 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4633 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4634 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4635 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4636 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4637
463857. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4639 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4640 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4641 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4642 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4643 the test of how many are available.
4644
464558. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4646 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4647 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4648 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4649 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4650 new message is started.
4651
465259. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4653 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4654
465560. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4656 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4657
465861. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4659 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4660 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4661 is no long logged.
4662
466362. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4664 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4665 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4666 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4667 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4668 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4669 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4670
467163. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4672 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4673 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4674 interpreted as octal.
4675
467664. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4677 setting.
4678
467965. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4680 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4681 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4682 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4683 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4684 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4685
468666. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4687 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4688 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4689 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4690
4691 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4692 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4693 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4694 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4695
4696 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4697 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4698 is a bug fix.
4699
4700 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4701 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4702
470367. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4704
470568. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4706 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4707 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4708 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4709
471069. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4711 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4712 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4713 supplied", which is not helpful.
4714
471570. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4716 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4717 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4718
471971. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4720 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4721 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4722 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4723 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4724 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4725 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4726 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4727
472872. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4729 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4730 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4731 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4732 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4733
473473. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4735 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4736 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4737 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4738 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4739 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4740
474174. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4742 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4743 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4744
474575. Added write_rejectlog option.
4746
474776. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4748 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4749 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4750 variables.
4751
475277. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4753
475478. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4755 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4756 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4757 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4758 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4759 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4760 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4761 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4762
476379. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4764 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4765 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4766 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4767 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4768
476980. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4770 Haardt.
4771
477281. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4773 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4774 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4775 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4776 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4777 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4778 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4779 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4780 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4781
4782
4783Exim version 4.30
4784-----------------
4785
4786 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4787 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4788 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4789
4790 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4791 fixed.
4792
4793 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4794 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4795 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4796
4797 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4798 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4799 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4800 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4801 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4802 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4803
4804 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4805 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4806 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4807 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4808 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4809 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4810 the Exim test suite.
4811
4812 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4813 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4814 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4815 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4816
4817 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4818 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4819 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4820 specify it in this variable.
4821
4822 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4823 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4824 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4825 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4826
4827 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4828 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4829 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4830 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4831
4832 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4833 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4834 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4835 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4836 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4837
4838 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4839
484010. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4841 they are logged.
4842
484311. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4844 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4845 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4846 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4847 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4848
484912. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4850 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4851
485213. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4853 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4854 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4855 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4856 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4857
485814. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4859 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4860
486115. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4862 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4863 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
4864
486516. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
4866 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
4867
486817. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
4869 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
4870
487118. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
4872 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
4873 to get rid of the compiler warning.
4874
487519. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
4876 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
4877
487820. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
4879 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
4880 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
4881 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
4882
488321. Added the -t option to exigrep.
4884
488522. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
4886 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
4887 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
4888 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
4889
489023. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
4891
489224. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
4893 line; previously there was no indication of these.
4894
489525. Added .include_if_exists.
4896
489726. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
4898 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
4899 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
4900 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
4901 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
4902 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
4903
490427. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
4905
490628. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
4907 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
4908 this.
4909
491029. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
4911
491230. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
4913 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
4914
4915 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
4916 550 Sender verify failed
4917
4918 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
4919 the final line of the response.
4920
492131. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
4922 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
4923 all other user lookups.
4924
492532. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
4926 delivery time.
4927
492833. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
4929 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
4930 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
4931 result into an int without checking.
4932
493334. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
4934 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4935 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
4936
493735. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
4938 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
4939 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
4940 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
4941
494236. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
4943 correctly.
4944
494537. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
4946 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
4947
494838. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
4949 to the empty sender.
4950
495139. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
4952 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
4953 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
4954 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
4955 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
4956 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
4957 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
4958 panic log.
4959
496040. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
4961 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
4962 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
4963 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
4964 used.
4965
496641. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
4967 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
4968
496942. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
4970 timestamps.
4971
497243. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
4973 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
4974
497544. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
4976
497745. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
4978 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
4979 logs.
4980
498146. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
4982 as soon as it is encountered.
4983
498447. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
4985
498648. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
4987 rewritten to "<>".
4988
498949. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
4990 recognizes a tab character.
4991
499250. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
4993 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
4994 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
4995 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
4996
499751. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
4998
499952. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5000 crash.
5001
500253. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5003
500454. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5005
500655. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5007 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5008 2822.
5009
501056. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5011 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5012 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5013 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5014 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5015
501657. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5017 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5018
501958. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5020 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5021 list (.included file names were always shown).
5022
502359. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5024 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5025 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5026 root at that time.
5027
502860. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5029 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5030
503161. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5032
503362. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5034
503563. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5036
503764. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5038 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5039 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5040 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5041 failures to open the logs.
5042
504365. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5044 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5045 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5046 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5047 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5048 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5049 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5050
5051
5052Exim version 4.24
5053-----------------
5054
5055 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5056 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5057 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5058 change 4.23/1.
5059
5060 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5061 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5062 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5063
5064 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5065 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5066 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5067
5068 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5069 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5070 causing some misleading effects.
5071
5072 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5073 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5074 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5075
5076 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5077 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5078 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5079 queue-runner function directly.
5080
5081
5082Exim version 4.23
5083-----------------
5084
5085 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5086 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5087
5088 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5089 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5090 was always written to the default place.
5091
5092 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5093 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5094 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5095
5096 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5097
5098 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5099
5100 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5101 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5102 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5103
5104 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5105 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5106 must start.
5107
5108 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5109 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5110 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5111
5112 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5113 command line option is disabled.
5114
5115 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5116 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5117
5118 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5119
5120 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5121
5122 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5123 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5124
512510. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5126
512711. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5128 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5129 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5130 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5131 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5132 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5133
513412. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5135 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5136 timeout.
5137
513813. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5139 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5140
514114. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5142 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5143
514415. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5145 received was valid base64.
5146
514716. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5148 name of the variable that was being set.
5149
515017. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5151
515218. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5153 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5154 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5155 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5156 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5157 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5158
515919. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5160
516120. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5162 nor realm was specified.
5163
516421. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5165 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5166 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5167 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5168
516922. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5170 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5171 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5172
517323. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5174 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5175 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5176
517724. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5178 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5179 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5180 some systems use these upper case variants.
5181
518225. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5183 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5184 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5185 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5186
518726. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5188
518927. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5190 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5191
519228. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5193 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5194 expansion variable.
5195
519629. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5197
519830. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5199 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5200 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5201 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5202
520331. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5204 using it.
5205
520632. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5207 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5208 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5209
521033. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5211 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5212
521334. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5214 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5215 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5216 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5217
521835. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5219 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5220 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5221
522236. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5223
522437. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5225 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5226 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5227 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5228 aborted.
5229
523038. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5231 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5232 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5233
523439. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5235
523640. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5237 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5238
523941. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5240 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5241
524242. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5243 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5244 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5245 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5246 when emails are that large.
5247
5248
5249
5250Exim version 4.22
5251-----------------
5252
5253 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5254 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5255
5256 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5257 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5258 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5259
5260 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5261 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5262 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5263
5264 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5265 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5266 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5267 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5268 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5269
5270 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5271 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5272 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5273 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5274 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5275 ever.
5276
5277 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5278 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5279 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5280 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5281 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5282 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5283 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5284 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5285 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5286 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5287 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5288 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5289 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5290 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5291
5292 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5293 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5294 parameterised it.
5295
5296 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5297 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5298 error should be diagnosed.
5299
5300 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5301 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5302 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5303 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5304 appeared instead of "NULL".
5305
530610. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5307 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5308 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5309 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5310 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5311 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5312 proceeds).
5313
5314 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5315 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5316 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5317
5318
5319Exim version 4.21
5320-----------------
5321
5322 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5323 or receiver verification errors.
5324
5325 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5326 name.
5327
5328 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5329 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5330 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5331 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5332
5333 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5334 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5335 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5336 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5337 shouldn't happen again.
5338
5339 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5340 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5341 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5342
5343 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5344 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5345
5346 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5347
5348 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5349 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5350
5351 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5352 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5353 RFC.
5354
535510. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5356 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5357 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5358
535911. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5360 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5361 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5362 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5363
536412. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5365 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5366 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5367 to define what should happen).
5368
536913. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5370 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5371 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5372
537314. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5374
537515. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5376
537716. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5378 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5379
538017. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5381 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5382 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5383 structure in all cases.
5384
5385 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5386 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5387 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5388 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5389
539018. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5391 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5392 domain name.
5393
539419. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5395 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5396
539720. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5398 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5399
540021. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5401 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5402 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5403
540422. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5405 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5406 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5407
540823. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5409 the book and for uniformity.
5410
541124. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5412
541325. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5414 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5415 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5416 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5417 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5418 non-existent command as the problem.
5419
542026. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5421 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5422 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5423
542427. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5425
542628. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5427 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5428 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5429
543029. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5431 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5432 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5433 timestamps using strftime().
5434
543530. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5436 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5437
543832. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5439 transport-time rewrites.
5440
544133. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5442 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5443 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5444 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5445
544634. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5447 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5448
544935. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5450 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5451 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5452 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5453 comma and a space.
5454
545536. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5456 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5457 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5458 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5459 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5460 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5461 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5462
546337. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5464 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5465 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5466 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5467 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5468
546938. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5470 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5471 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5472 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5473 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5474 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5475 remaining text gets split now.
5476
547739. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5478 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5479 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5480 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5481
548240. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5483 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5484 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5485 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5486 $return_path.
5487
548841. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5489 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5490 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5491 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5492 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5493 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5494 passed through if needed.
5495
549642. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5497 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5498 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5499 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5500 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5501 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5502
550343. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5504 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5505 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5506 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5507 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5508
550944. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5510 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5511 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5512 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5513 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5514
551545. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5516 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5517 noticed.
5518
551946. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5520 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5521 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5522 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5523 mayhem of various kinds.
5524
552547. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5526 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5527 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5528 the right test for positive values.
5529
553048. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5531 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5532 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5533 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5534 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5535 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5536 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5537 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5538 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5539 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5540 envelope.
5541
554249. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5543 module.
5544
554550. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5546 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5547 forbidding it.
5548
554951. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5550 the existing equality matching.
5551
555252. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5553 dealing with inode numbers.
5554
555553. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5556 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5557 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5558
555954. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5560 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5561 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5562 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5563 local_scan().
5564
556555. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5566 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5567 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5568 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5569 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5570 relay addresses has also been removed.
5571
557256. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5573
557457. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5575 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5576 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5577
557858. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5579 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5580 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5581 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5582 processing applies to CR:
5583
5584 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5585 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5586
5587 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5588 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5589 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5590 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5591
559259. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5593 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5594 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5595
559660. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5597 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5598 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5599 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5600 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5601 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5602 arisen.
5603
560461. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5605 program routers.
5606
560762. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5608 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5609 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5610 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5611 adds:
5612
5613 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5614
5615 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5616
5617 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5618
561963. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5620 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5621 not considered personal.
5622
562364. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5624
562565. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5626
562766. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5628
562967. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5630 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5631 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5632 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5633 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5634 header lines, and spool format errors.
5635
563668. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5637 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5638 for more flexibility.
5639
564069. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5641 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5642 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5643
564470. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5645 Sabourenkov.
5646
564771. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5648 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5649 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5650 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5651 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5652 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5653 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5654 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5655 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5656
565772. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5658 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5659 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5660 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5661 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5662 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5663 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5664
566573. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5666 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5667 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5668
566974. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5670 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5671 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5672 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5673 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5674 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5675 instead of killing the process with assert().
5676
567775. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5678 than Unicode encoding.
5679
568076. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5681 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5682 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5683 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5684
568577. Added process_log_path.
5686
568778. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5688 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5689
569079. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5691 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5692
569380. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5694 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5695 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5696
569781. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5698 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5699 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5700 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5701 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5702 were applied:
5703
5704 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5705 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5706 as invalid.
5707
570882. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5709 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5710 they will be used during message reception.
5711
5712
5713Exim version 4.20
5714-----------------
5715
5716The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
5717
5718****