DKIM: fix non-debug build. Bug 1713
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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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7JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
8 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
9 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
10 client dropping the TLS connection.
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12TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
13 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
14
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15TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
16 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
17 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
18 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
19 outgoing I= field.
20
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21JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
22 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
23 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
24 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
25 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
26 check on the next write.
27
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28HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
29 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
30 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
31 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
32 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
33
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34JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
35 mime_regex ACL conditions.
36
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37JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
38 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
39 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
40
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41JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
42 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
43 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
44 an authenticate fail is not an error.
45
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46HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
47 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
48
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49JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit cacheing of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
50 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
51
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52JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
53 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
54 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
55 distinct.
56
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57JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
58
59JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
60
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61JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
62
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63JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
64 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
65
98b98887 66JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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67 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
68
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69JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
70
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71JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
72 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
73
74JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
75
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76JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
77 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
78
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79JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
80
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84JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
85 expanded.
86
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87JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
88
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89JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
90 it.
91
01a4a5c5 92JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 93 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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94 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
95 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
96
cb1d7830 97JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 98 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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99 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
100
610ff438 101JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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102 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
103 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
104 TLS connections
610ff438 105
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106JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
107 sites use this now.
108
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109JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
110 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
111 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
112 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
113 have a dsn_lasthop option.
114
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115JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
116 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 117 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 118
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119JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
120
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121JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
122 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
123
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124JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
125 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
126
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127JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
128 /defer_ok option.
129
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130JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
131 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
132
fd4d8871 133JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 134 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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135 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
136
137JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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138 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
139 specify a port-range.
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141JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
142 timeout value per server.
143
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144JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
145 now have the list separator specified.
146
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147JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
148 option values.
149
82c0c8ea 150JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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151 under OpenSSL.
152
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153JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
154
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155JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
156 rather than the verbs used.
157
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158JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
159 from 255 to 1024 chars.
160
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161JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
162
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163HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
164 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 165
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166JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
167 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
168
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169HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
170 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
171
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172JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
173
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174JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
175
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176JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
177 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
178 modern usage is to not canoicalize the domain to a CNAME target
179 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
180
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181JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
182
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183JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
184 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
185
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186JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
187 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
188
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189JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
190
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191JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
192
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193JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
194
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195JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
196 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
197
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198JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
199 added for tls authenticator.
200
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204TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
205 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
206 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
207 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
208 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
209 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
210 the script parsing/test process like normal.
211
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212TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
213 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
214 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
215 function when detected.
216
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217JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
218 cause callback expansion.
219
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220TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
221 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
222 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
223 instead of bool when processing it.
224
0f06b4f2 225JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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226 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
227
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228JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
229
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230JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
231
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232TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
233
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234TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
235 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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237JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
238 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
239 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
240 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
241 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
242 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
243
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244JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
245 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
246 exceeded it.
247
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248JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
249 version 3.3.6 or later.
250
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251JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
252 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
253 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 254 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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255 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
256 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
257 option is defined.
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259TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
260 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
261
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262JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
263 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
264 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
265 matches.
266
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267JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
268 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
269 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
270
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271JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
272 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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273
274JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
275 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
276 syntax errors.
277
3394b36a 278JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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279
280JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
281 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
282
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283TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
284 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
285 tarball.
286
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287JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
288
289JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t anchitectures.
290 Bug 1561.
291
292JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
293 output list separator was used.
294
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296Exim version 4.84
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298TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
299 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
300 return.
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302JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
303 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
304
305JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
306
307TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 308 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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313
314TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
315
316 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
317 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
318 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
319 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
320 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
321 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
322
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323TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
324 utilities have not been installed.
325
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326JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
327 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
328
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329TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
330 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
331
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332TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
333 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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334 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
335 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 336
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337JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
338
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339TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
340 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
341
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342PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
343 not dns_use_dnssec.
344
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345JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
346
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347TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
348 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
349 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
350
8ddef691 351TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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352 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
353 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
354 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
355 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 356 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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358JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
359
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360JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
361 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
362
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363JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
364 failed delivery.
365
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366JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
367
511a6c14 368JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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370JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
371 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 372
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373JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
374 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
375
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376TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
377
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378JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
379
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380JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
381 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
382
383 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
384 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
385 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
386
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387TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
388 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
389 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
390 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 391
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392JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
393
8c51eead 394JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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395 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
396 lookup).
8c51eead 397
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398TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
399 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
400 Schlichting.
35aba663 401
fd3b6a4a 402JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 403 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 404
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405TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
406 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
407
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408JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
409
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410TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
411 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
412 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
413
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414JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
415 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
416
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417JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
418 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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419 hosts_request_ocsp.
420
ed3bba5f 421JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 422 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 423 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 424
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425JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
426
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427TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
428 Christian Aistleitner.
429
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430JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
431
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432TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
433 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
434
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435JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
436 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
437
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438JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
439 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
440
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441TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
442 support and error reporting did not work properly.
443
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444TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
445 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
446
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447TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
448 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
449 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
450
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451JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
452
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453PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
454 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
455 Jasper Wallace.
456
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457JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
458
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459TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
460 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
461 CVE-2014-2972
462
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466
467PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
468
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469PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
470 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
471
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472PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
473 by GnuTLS.
474
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475PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
476 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
477 routines.
478
13363eba 479PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 480
66645890 481PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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482 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
483 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
484 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
485 using channel bindings instead).
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a3fb9793 487PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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488 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
489 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
490 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 491 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 492 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 493
d27f98fe 494TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 495
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496TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
497
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498TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
499 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
500
ae0e32ee 501TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 502 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 503 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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504
505TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 506
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507TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
508
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509TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
510 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
511
976b7e9f
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512JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
513
be4a1376
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514JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
515
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516PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
517
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518NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
519 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 520
585121e2 521JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 522
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523PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
524 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
525 function.
a5f239e4 526
13d08c90
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527PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
528 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
529
bef3ea7f
JH
530JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
531 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
532 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 533
846726c5
JH
534JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
535
3a796370
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536JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
537
ea722490 538JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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539 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
540
b1b05573
JH
541JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
542 Bugzilla 884.
543
362145b5
JH
544JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
545 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
546
3c0a92dc
JH
547JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
548 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
549
6d7c6175
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550PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
551 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 552 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 553
6f123593
JH
554JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
555 authenticators.
556
c8e2fc1e
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557JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
558 for control.
559
005ac57f
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560PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
561
3f1df0e3
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562PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
563 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
564 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
565 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
566
67bd1ab3
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567TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
568
569 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
570 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
571 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
572 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
573 the retry rules.
574
575 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
576 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
577 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
578
579 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
580 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
581 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
582 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
583
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584 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
585 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
586 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
587 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
588 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
589 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
590 delivery, as in LMTP.
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591
592 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
593 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
594
326cdc37
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595TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
596
597 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
598
599 Resent-From: f
600
601 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
602 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
603 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
604 username as equal to the username.
605
606 This change corrects that bug.
607
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608GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
609 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
610 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
611
eb505532
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612TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
613
14c7b357
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614PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
615 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
616 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
617 NULL dereference and crash.
618
94eaf700
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619JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
620
6f5a440a
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621PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
622 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
623 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
624
514ee161
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625SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
626
fd98a5c6
JH
627JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
628 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
629 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
630 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
631 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
632 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
633 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
634 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
635 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
636 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
637 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
638
035c7f1e
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639PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
640 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
641
ff284120
PP
642PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
643 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
644 Bugzilla 880.
645
26e72755
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646PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
647 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
648 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
649 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
650 an empty string is now equivalent.
651
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652PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
653 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
654 not performing validation itself.
655
700d22f3
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656PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
657 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
658
fcc8e047
JH
659JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
660 Bugzilla 321, 823.
661
7142daca
PP
662TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
663
8c020188
PP
664PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
665 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
666 other false fix of the same issue.
667 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
668 Bugzilla 1363.
669
d13cdd30
PP
670PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
671 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
672
e2fbf4a2
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673PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
674 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
675 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
676
f4c1088b
PP
677PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
678 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
679 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
680
c5c2182f
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681TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
682
73431ca9
JH
683JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
684
2d07a215
TL
685TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
686 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
687
a30a8861
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688TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
689 Alexander Miroch.
690
33382dd9
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691TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
692 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
693 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
694 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
695 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 696
046172e6
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697TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
698 the src/util/ subdirectory.
699
581d7bee 700TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 701 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
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702 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
703
704TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
705 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
706 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
707 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
708
237b2cf2
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709TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
710
9fc5a352
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711TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
712 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
713 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 714
b10e4ec2
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715TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
716
e2cebd74
TL
717TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
718 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
719 interaction.
720
721TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
722 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
723
2519e60d
TL
724TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
725 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
726
e78e6ecf 727
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728Exim version 4.80.1
729-------------------
730
731PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
732 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 733 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 734
ea722490 735
b1770b6e 736Exim version 4.80
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738
739PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
740 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
741 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
742
23c7e742
NM
743NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
744
b322aac8
NM
745NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
746 improved.
747
4a891427
NM
748NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
749
c1e794ba 750PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 751
97753960
PP
752PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
753
754PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
755 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
756
df6303fa
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757PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
758 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
759
7e6a8985
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760PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
761 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
762
f1e05cc7 763PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
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764 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
765 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 766
4c287009
PP
767PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
768
b98bb9ac
PP
769PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
770 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
771
4a6a987a
PP
772PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
773
c45dd180 774PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 775
7db8d074
PP
776PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
777 non-compliant senders.
778 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
779
eae0036b 780NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
e0df1c83
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781 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
782 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
783
dec5017e
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784PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
785 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
786 in spool file corruption.
787
c80c5570
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788PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
789 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
790 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
791 "Got SSL error 2".
792
076b11e2
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793TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
794 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
795 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
796
5407bfff
JH
797JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
798 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
799
9e45c72b
PP
800JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
801
e74376d8
PP
802PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
803 diagnostics.
804 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
805
da3ad30d
PP
806PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
807 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
808 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
809
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810PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
811 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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812 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
813 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 814
ef840681
PP
815PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
816 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
817
5bfb4cdf
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818PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
819 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
820 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
821 resolver implementation change.
822
c6e95d22
PP
823PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
824 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
825
9cbad13b
PP
826PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
827
9ee44efb
PP
828PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
829
6a6084f8
PP
830PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
831 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
832
12dd53c7
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833PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
834 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
835
9e45c72b 836JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
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837 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
838
17c76198
PP
839PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
840 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
841 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
842 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 843 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 844
53947857 845PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 846
eae0036b 847PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
848 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
849 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 850
9e45c72b 851JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 852
7390e768
PP
853PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
854 read-only, out of scope).
855 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
856
08488c86
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857PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
858 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
859 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
860 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
861
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862PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
863
81f91683
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864PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
865 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
866 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
867 real issues in debug logging.
868
5779e6aa
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869PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
870 assignment on my part. Fixed.
871
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872PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
873 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
874 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
875
876PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
877 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
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878 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
879 problems.
3375e053 880
9d26b8c0
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881PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
882 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
883
57eb9e91 884PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
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885 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
886 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
887 needs to override this, it can.
888
16880d1a
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889PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
890 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
891 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
892
a799883d
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893PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
894 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
895 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
896 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
897
3ecab157 898PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 899
0599f9cf 900
867fcbf5
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901Exim version 4.77
902-----------------
903
904PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
905 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
906
f1a29782
TF
907TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
908
ab42bd23
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909TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
910 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 911
0ca0cf52
TF
912TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
913 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
914
921b12ca
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915TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
916 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
917 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
918
919 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
920 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
921 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
922 not safe for signals.
923
924 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
925 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
926 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
927 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
928 exiwhat.
929
c99ce5c9
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930TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
931
932 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
933 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
934 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
935 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
936 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
937
938 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
939 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
940 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
941 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
942 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
943 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
944
945 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
946 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
947 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
948 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
949
950 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
951 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
952 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
953 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
954
955 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
956 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
957 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
958 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
959 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
960 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
961 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
962 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
963 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
964
965 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
966 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
967 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
968 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
969
970 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
971 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
972 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
973 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
974 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
975 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
976 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
977 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
978 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
979 details in the main documentation.
980
3634fc25
TF
981TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
982
792e8a19
TF
983TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
984
5901f0ab
TF
985TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
986 repository when doing development or release builds.
987
7f2a2a43
PP
988PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
989 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 990
061b7ebd
PP
991PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
992 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
993 Bugzilla 97.
994
e12f8c32
PP
995PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
996
9e949f00 997PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
998 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
999
1000PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1001 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1002
555ae6af 1003PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1004 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1005
1006PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1007 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1008
6f7fe114
PP
1009PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1010 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1011
c566dd90
PP
1012PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1013 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1014 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1015 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1016
d6cc7c78 1017PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1018 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1019 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1020
0d0e4455
PP
1021PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1022
3399bb60 1023PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1024
1025PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1026 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1027
0ca0cf52 1028
10906672
PP
1029Exim version 4.76
1030-----------------
1031
1032PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1033
754a0503
PP
1034PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1035 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1036
c0c7b2da
PP
1037PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1038
e97d1f08
PP
1039PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1040
084c1d8c
PP
1041PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1042 Bugzilla 1098.
1043
4e7ee012
PP
1044PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1045 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1046
c8d52a00
PP
1047TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1048 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1049
54e7ce4a
PP
1050PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1051 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1052
5ee6f336
PP
1053PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1054 Bugzilla 1104.
1055
c8d52a00 1056TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1057 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1058
1059TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1060 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1061 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1062 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1063
1064PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1065 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1066
10906672 1067
aa097c4c
NM
1068Exim version 4.75
1069-----------------
1070
4c9ef03a 1071NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1072 Bugzilla 1073
1073
7f3d9eff
TF
1074TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1075 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1076 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1077
159f52d2
TF
1078TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1079 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1080
0cc9542a
PP
1081PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1082 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1083 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1084
f7274286
PP
1085PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1086 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1087
7b797365
PP
1088PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1089 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1090
caacae52
NM
1091NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1092 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1093
09dcaba9
NM
1094NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1095 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1096
bc19a55b
PP
1097PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1098 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1099
bd4c9759
NM
1100NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1101 Fixes bug 943.
1102
b72aab72
PP
1103PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1104 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1105
2fe76745
PP
1106PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1107 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1108
76aa570c
PP
1109PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1110 SQL string expansion failure details.
1111 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1112
f1e5fef5
PP
1113PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1114 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1115
4d805ee9
PP
1116PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1117 extern declarations in function scope.
1118 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1119
cd59ab18
PP
1120PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1121 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1122 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1123 a kernel bug).
1124
332f5cf3
PP
1125PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1126 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1127
29cfeb94
PP
1128PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1129 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1130
660242ad
PP
1131PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1132 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1133
bc4bc4c5
PP
1134PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1135 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1136
2e64baa9
NM
1137NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1138 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1139 Dennis Davis.
1140
bddd7526
PP
1141PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
1142
6bac1a9a
PP
1143PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1144
552193f0
NM
1145NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1146 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1147
1b587e48
TF
1148TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1149 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1150
aa097c4c 1151
8c07b69f
TF
1152Exim version 4.74
1153-----------------
1154
1155TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1156 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1157
c0ea85ab
TF
1158TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1159 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1160
0761d44e
TF
1161TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1162
0a349494
PP
1163DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1164 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1165 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1166
1167PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1168 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1169 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1170
fea24b2e
PP
1171PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1172 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1173 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1174 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1175
6545de78
PP
1176PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1177 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1178 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1179 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1180
1670ef10
PP
1181PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1182 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1183 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1184 arbitrary files.
1185
c0886197
PP
1186PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1187 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1188
b7487bce
PP
1189PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1190 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1191 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1192 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1193 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1194
8c07b69f 1195
97fd1e48 1196Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1197-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1198
1199PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1200 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1201 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1202
6901c596
PP
1203PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1204 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1205
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1206JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1207
77bb000f
PP
1208PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1209
a29e5231
PP
1210PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1211
ec5a0394 1212PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1213
55c75993
PP
1214PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1215
453a6645 1216PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1217 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1218 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1219 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1220
8544e77a
PP
1221PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1222 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1223 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1224 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1225 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1226
83e029d5
PP
1227PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1228
ed7f7860
PP
1229PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1230
7d9f747b
PP
1231PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1232
4b2241d2
PP
1233PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1234
10385c15
PP
1235PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1236
dbc4b90d
PP
1237PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1238
532be449
PP
1239PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1240
6a8de854 1241PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1242 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1243 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1244
5dc43717
JJ
1245JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1246
1247JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1248 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1249
3346ab01
PP
1250PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1251 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1252
491fab4c
PP
1253PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1254 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1255 Notification from John Horne.
1256
13eb9497
PP
1257PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1258 compatible.
1259
1260PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1261 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1262 it normally works.
1263
7f36d675
DW
1264DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1265 access.
1266
c1d94452
DW
1267DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1268 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1269 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1270
e2f5dc15
DW
1271DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1272 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1273 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1274 configuration file.
1275
cd25e41d
DW
1276DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1277 option (effectively making it always true).
1278
261dc43e
DW
1279DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1280 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1281
fa32850b
DW
1282DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1283 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1284
79d4bc3d
PP
1285PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1286 run-time user, instead of root.
1287
43236f35 1288PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1289 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1290
fb08281f
DW
1291DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1292 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1293 arguments.
3346ab01 1294
74935b98
DW
1295DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1296 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1297 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1298
90b6341f
DW
1299DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1300
57730b52
ML
1301NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1302
66581d1e 1303
465e92cf
JJ
1304Exim version 4.72
1305-----------------
1306
453a6645
PP
1307JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1308 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1309 typos
465e92cf 1310
453a6645
PP
1311JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1312 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1313 (Finput)
edae0343 1314
9bd3e22c
NM
1315NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1316 Patch from Alain Williams
1317
bb576ff7
NM
1318NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1319
5a1a5845
NM
1320NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1321 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1322
981a9fad
NM
1323NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1324 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1325
7fc497ee
NM
1326NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1327
1a41defa
JJ
1328JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1329
a466095c 1330NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1331 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1332
94a6bd0b
NM
1333TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1334
1335TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1336
1337MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1338 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1339 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1340
c1b141a8
NM
1341NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1342 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1343
b26eacf1 1344NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1345 Patch by Simon Arlott
1346
179c5980 1347PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1348 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1349
9bd3e22c 1350
7c6d71af
NM
1351Exim version 4.71
1352-----------------
1353
7d9f747b 1354TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1355
f013fb92
NM
1356NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1357
0eb8eedd
NM
1358NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1359
663ee6d9
NM
1360NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1361
177ebd9b
NM
1362NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1363
7c6d71af 1364
210f147e
NM
1365Exim version 4.70
1366-----------------
1367
cdd3bb85 1368TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1369 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1370
1371TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1372 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1373 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1374
1375TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1376 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1377 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1378
1379TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1380 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1381
210f147e
NM
1382NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1383 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1384 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1385 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1386
deafd5b3
NM
1387NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1388 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1389 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1390
089793a4
TF
1391TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1392
5f16ca82
TF
1393TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1394
dae9d94e 1395NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1396 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1397
7d9f747b 1398NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1399
06864c44
TF
1400TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1401 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1402 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1403 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1404
65a7d8c3 1405NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1406 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1407
23510047 1408TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1409
7d9f747b 1410NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1411
7d8eec3a 1412NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1413 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1414
89dec7b6
TF
1415TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1416 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1417
a99de90c
TF
1418TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1419 that they are available at delivery time.
1420
e2803e40
TF
1421TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1422
7199e1ee
TF
1423TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1424 incoming_port log selectors.
1425
e276e04b
TF
1426TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1427 setting expands to an empty string.
1428
ce552449 1429NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1430 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1431
e765a0f1 1432NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1433 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1434
4f054c63 1435NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1436 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1437
7d9f747b
PP
1438NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1439 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1440
7d9f747b
PP
1441NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1442 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1443
b52bc06e 1444NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1445 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1446
447de4b0
NM
1447NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1448
4c69d561 1449NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1450 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1451
d5c39246 1452NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1453 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1454
0b23848a
TK
1455TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1456
8f3414a1 1457NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1458 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1459
fb6f955d
NM
1460NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1461
1462NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1463
7d9f747b
PP
1464NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1465 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1466
7d9f747b
PP
1467NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1468 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1469
7d9f747b
PP
1470NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1471 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1472
7d9f747b
PP
1473NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1474 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1475
7d9f747b
PP
1476NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1477 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1478
7d9f747b
PP
1479NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1480 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1481
7d9f747b
PP
1482NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1483 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1484
7d9f747b 1485NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1486 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1487
7d9f747b 1488NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1489
7d9f747b
PP
1490NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1491 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1492
7d9f747b 1493NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1494
7d9f747b 1495NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1496
7d9f747b 1497NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1498
7d9f747b 1499NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1500
17792b53 1501NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1502 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1503
7d9f747b
PP
1504NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1505 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1506
91576cec 1507NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1508 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1509
7d9f747b
PP
1510NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1511 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1512
7d9f747b 1513NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1514
7d9f747b 1515NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1516
7d9f747b 1517NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1518
7d9f747b 1519NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1520
deafd5b3 1521
47db1125
NM
1522Exim version 4.69
1523-----------------
1524
4b3504d0
TK
1525TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1526 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1527 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1528
1529 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1530 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1531 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1532 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1533 build errors in sieve.c.
1534
81ea09ca
NM
1535NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1536 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1537 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1538
f13cddcb
SC
1539SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1540
7d9f747b 1541NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1542
7d9f747b 1543NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1544
7d9f747b 1545NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1546
1547
eb4c0de6
PH
1548Exim version 4.68
1549-----------------
1550
1551PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1552
6a3bceb1
PH
1553PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1554 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1555 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1556 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1557 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1558 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1559 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1560 for iplsearch lookups.
1561
1562 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1563 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1564 previously such lookups could never work.
1565
1566 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1567 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1568 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1569
2e30fa9d
TK
1570TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1571 version.
1572
0806a9c5
MH
1573MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1574 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1575 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1576 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1577 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1578 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1579
ae276964
TK
1580TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1581 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1582
0f2cbd1b
MH
1583MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1584 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1585 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1586 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1587 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1588 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1589
2b85bce7
PH
1590PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1591 local_scan API.
1592
93655c46
PH
1593PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1594
6c512171
PH
1595PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1596 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1597 encrypted.
1598
1599PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1600 by clients under certain conditions.
1601
aa6dc513
PH
1602PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1603 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1604
a96603a0
PH
1605PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1606
8f240103
PH
1607PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1608 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1609
1610PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1611
d677b2f2
PH
1612PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1613
d52120f2
PH
1614PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1615
64f2600a
PH
1616PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1617 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1618
8669f003
PH
1619PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1620
a4dc33a8
PH
1621PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1622 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1623
d6a60c0f
PH
1624PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1625
8f128379
PH
1626PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1627
8932dffe
PH
1628PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1629 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1630 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1631 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1632
ddea74fa 1633PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1634 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1635 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1636
ddea74fa 1637PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1638 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1639
ddea74fa
PH
1640PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1641
ce9f225c
PH
1642PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1643
19897d52
PH
1644PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1645
bc64a74d
PH
1646PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1647 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1648 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1649
eb4c0de6 1650
b4ed4da0
PH
1651Exim version 4.67
1652-----------------
1653
22ad45c9
MH
1654MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1655 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1656 Jan Srzednicki.
1657
b4ed4da0
PH
1658PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1659 issue a MAIL command.
1660
431b7361
PH
1661PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1662
1663 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1664
1665 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1666 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1667 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1668 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1669 item. This has been fixed.
1670
1671PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1672 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1673
83da1223
PH
1674PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1675 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1676
54fc8428
PH
1677PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1678 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1679 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1680
34c5e8dd
SC
1681SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1682
bbe15da8
PH
1683PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1684 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1685 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1686 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1687 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1688
0e8a9471
MH
1689MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1690 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1691 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1692
f0872424
PH
1693PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1694 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1695 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1696 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1697
b01dd148
PH
1698PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1699
6bf342e1
PH
1700PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1701
273f34d0
PH
1702PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1703 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1704 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1705 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1706 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1707
cf8b11a5
PH
1708PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1709
41c7c167
PH
1710PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1711 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1712 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1713 values).
1714
9c57cbc0
PH
1715PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1716
f3f065bb
PH
1717PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1718
047bdd8c
PH
1719PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1720
0ce9abe6
PH
1721PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1722
0e22dfd1
PH
1723PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1724
4c590bd1
PH
1725PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1726 no_callout_flush is set.
1727
09945f1e
PH
1728PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1729 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1730 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1731 fixed.
1732
c51b8e75
PH
1733PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1734
e28326d8
PH
1735PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1736 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1737 other ACL rejections are.
1738
75b1493f
PH
1739PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1740 with slight modification.
1741
7c5214ec
PH
1742PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1743 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1744
4311097e
PH
1745PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1746 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1747 connection.
1748
29f89cad
PH
1749PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1750 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1751
5e687460
SC
1752SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1753
c3611384
PH
1754PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1755 expansion side effects.
1756
5a11a7b4
PH
1757PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1758 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1759 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1760 be the same.
1761
0e20aff9
MH
1762MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1763 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1764 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1765
ca86f471
PH
1766PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1767 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1768 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1769 were accidentally chopped off.
1770
a14e5636
PH
1771PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1772 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1773 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1774 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1775 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1776 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1777 pipelining has not been advertised.
1778
ec95d1a6
PH
1779PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1780
42855d71
PH
1781PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1782 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1783 This has been fixed.
1784
57c2c631
PH
1785PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1786 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1787 reported on Solaris.
1788
58c01c94
PH
1789PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1790 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1791 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1792 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1793 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1794 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1795 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1796
dee5a20a
PH
1797PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1798 cpus.
1799
d2ee6114
PH
1800PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1801
b2d5182b
PH
1802PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1803
79749a79
PH
1804PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1805 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1806 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1807 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1808 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1809 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1810
c456d9bb
PH
1811PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1812 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1813 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1814 host_all_ignored option.
1815
cd9868ec
PH
1816PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1817 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1818 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1819 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1820 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1821 is what is supposed to happen).
1822
ebeaf996
PH
1823PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1824 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1825 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1826 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1827 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1828 uses the Exim user.
1829
2679d413
PH
1830PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1831 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1832 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1833 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1834 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1835 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1836 users.
1837
84024b72
PH
1838PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1839
8005d38e
SC
1840SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1841 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1842 (Jez Hancock).
1843 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1844 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1845
3298c6c6
SC
1846SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1847
a43a27c5
PH
1848PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1849
58eb016e 1850PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1851 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1852 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1853 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1854 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1855 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1856 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1857 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1858 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1859 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1860 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1861
b43a74ea
PH
1862PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1863 advertised in response to EHLO.
1864
b4ed4da0 1865
5dd1517f
PH
1866Exim version 4.66
1867-----------------
1868
1869PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1870 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1871
1872 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1873 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1874
1875 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1876 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1877 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1878
1879 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1880 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1881 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1882 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1883 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1884
1885
93cfa765
TK
1886Exim version 4.65
1887-----------------
1888
1889TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1890 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1891 versions. (#438)
1892
d6066548
MH
1893MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1894 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1895 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1896
4362ff0d
PH
1897PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1898 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1899 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1900 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1901 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1902 rather than extend the field.
1903
93cfa765 1904
944e9e9c
TF
1905Exim version 4.64
1906-----------------
aa41d2de 1907
21d74bd9
TK
1908TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1909 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1910 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1911 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1912 these files.
1913
1914TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1915 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1916 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1917
1918TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1919 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1920 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1921
1922TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1923 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1924 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1925 in the field name.
1926
2b1c6e3a
PH
1927PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1928 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1929 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1930 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1931 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1932 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1933 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1934 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1935 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1936 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1937 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1938
1f872c80
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1939PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1940 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1941
1942PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1943 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1944 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1945 ignores EPIPE as well.
1946
d203e649
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1947PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1948 (quoted-printable decoding).
1949
cc2ed8f7 1950PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1951 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1952
ddfcd446
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1953PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1954
d45b1de8
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1955PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1956
1957PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1958
38a0a95f 1959PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1960 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1961
a2405d83
JJ
1962JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1963 in 4.64-PH/09.
1964
1965JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1966 miscellaneous code fixes
1967
6ea85e9a
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1968PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1969 rejections.
1970
26da7e20
PH
1971PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1972 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1973 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1974 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1975 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1976 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1977 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1978 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1979
14aa5a05 1980PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1981 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
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1982 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1983 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1984 function.
1985 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1986 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1987 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1988 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1989 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1990 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1991 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1992 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1993 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1994
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1995PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1996 decoding.
1997
e6f6568e
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1998PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1999 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2000 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2001 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2002 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2003 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2004 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2005 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2006
d6f6e0dc
PH
2007PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2008 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2009 list.
2010
322050c2
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2011PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2012 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2013 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2014 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2015 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2016 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2017 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2018 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2019 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2020 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2021 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2022 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2023 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2024
08955dd3
PH
2025PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2026 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2027 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2028 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2029 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2030 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2031 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2032
1eccaa59
PH
2033PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2034 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2035 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2036 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2037 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2038 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2039 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2040 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2041 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2042 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2043
602e59e5
PH
2044PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2045 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2046 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2047 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2048 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2049
411ef850
PH
2050PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2051 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2052 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2053 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2054 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2055 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2056 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2057
7befa435
PH
2058PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2059 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2060 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2061 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2062 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2063 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2064 been verified.
2065
48da4259 2066PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2067 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2068 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2069 and authorization.)
2070
48da4259
PH
2071PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2072 if any retry times were supplied.
2073
d1d5595c
PH
2074PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2075 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2076 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2077
0ef732d9
PH
2078PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2079
328895cc
PH
2080PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2081
fd700877
PH
2082PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2083 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2084 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2085 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2086 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2087 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2088
8dce1a6f
PH
2089PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2090 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2091
17af4a17
PH
2092PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2093 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2094 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2095
2096PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2097 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2098 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2099 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2100 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2101 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2102 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2103 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2104 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2105
2106 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2107 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2108 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2109 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2110 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2111 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2112 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2113 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2114 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2115
2116 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2117 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2118 hammering the server.
2119
c1114884
PH
2120PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2121 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2122
7a0743eb
PH
2123PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2124
0d85fa3f
PH
2125PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2126 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2127 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2128
1bf43b78
PH
2129PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2130 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2131 one case where this was not true.
2132
520de300
PH
2133PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2134 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2135 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2136 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2137 fails.
2138
48c7f9e2
PH
2139PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2140 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2141 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2142 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2143 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2144 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2145 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2146 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2147 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2148 smtp transport.
2149
99ea1c86
PH
2150PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2151 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2152 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2153 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2154
a2042e78
PH
2155PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2156 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2157
4fbcfc2e
PH
2158PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2159 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2160 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2161
aa41d2de
PH
2162PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2163
af561417
PH
2164PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2165
3cc66b45
PH
2166PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2167
194cc0e4
PH
2168PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2169 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2170 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2171 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2172
a401ddaa
PH
2173PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2174 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2175
4e88a19f
PH
2176PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2177 be meaningful with "accept".
2178
d7d7b289
SC
2179SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2180 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2181
2182SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2183 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2184 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2185
2186SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2187 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2188 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2189 there is data to show.
2190 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2191
2192SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2193 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2194 as well as the number of messages.
2195
2196SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2197 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2198 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2199
2200SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2201 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2202 have a flag are now skipped.
2203
2204SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2205 Added the -emptyok flag.
2206
2207SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2208 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2209
0ea2a468
JJ
2210JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2211 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2212 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2213
2214JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2215 match 4.64-PH/13
2216
2217JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2218 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2219
2220JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2221
2222JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2223 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2224
8a10f5a4
PH
2225PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2226
30e18802
PH
2227PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2228 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2229 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2230 contravention of the specifications.
2231
55728a4f
PH
2232PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2233 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2234 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2235
d7837193
PH
2236PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2237 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2238 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2239
87054a31
PH
2240PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2241
ea2c01d2
MH
2242MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2243 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2244 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2245 some point in the past.
2246
e4fa6968
PH
2247PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2248 transport during callout processing was broken.
2249
56f5d9bd
PH
2250PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2251 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2252
922e1c28
PH
2253PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2254 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2255
21eb6e72
PH
2256PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2257 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2258
a0540757
PH
2259PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2260
944e9e9c 2261
478be7b0
SC
2262Exim version 4.63
2263-----------------
2264
2265SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2266 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2267
2268SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2269 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2270 there is data to show.
2271 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2272
2273SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2274 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2275
2b965a65
TF
2276TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2277 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2278
45b91596
PH
2279TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2280 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2281
c59f5781
TF
2282TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2283 submissions from trusted users.
2284
90fc3069
TF
2285TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2286 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2287
6083aca0
TF
2288TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2289 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2290 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2291 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2292 there is now a framework to start from.
2293
765b530f
PH
2294PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2295 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2296 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2297
4e167a8c
PH
2298PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2299
4608d683
PH
2300PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2301
b8dc3e4a
PH
2302PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2303
5418e93b
PH
2304PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2305 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2306 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2307
b4a9bda2
PH
2308PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2309 libradius.
2310
45b91596
PH
2311PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2312 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2313 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2314
5547e2c5
PH
2315PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2316 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2317 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2318 its arguments.
2319
dbcef0ea
PH
2320PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2321 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2322 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2323 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2324 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2325
25257489
PH
2326PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2327 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2328
c816d124
PH
2329PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2330
a9ccd69a
PH
2331PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2332 operations in malware.c.
2333
75fa1910
PH
2334PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2335 signatures.
2336
a7d7aa58
PH
2337PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2338 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2339 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2340 all.
2341
42119b09
PH
2342PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2343 statements to "add_header".
2344
41609df5
PH
2345PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2346 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2347
a5bd321b
PH
2348PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2349 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2350 latter.
2351
e85a7ad5 2352PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2353 so that it is now:
2354
e85a7ad5
PH
2355 ${if or { \
2356 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2357 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2358 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2359 }{no}{yes}}
2360
e85a7ad5
PH
2361 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2362 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2363
d8fe1c03
PH
2364PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2365 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2366
16282d2b
PH
2367PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2368 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2369 any possible encoding problems.
2370
35d40a98
PH
2371PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2372 but not after initializing Perl.
2373
034d99ab
PH
2374PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2375 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2376 apparently, which is not desirable.
2377
6ec97b1b
PH
2378PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2379 queries.
2380
e22ca4ac
JJ
2381JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2382 --not options
2383
2384JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2385
33d73e3b
PH
2386PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2387 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2388 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2389 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2390
9ecb03f3
PH
2391PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2392 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2393 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2394
084efe8d
PH
2395PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2396 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2397 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2398 0.12.
2399
366fc9f0
PH
2400PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2401 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2402 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2403 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2404 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2405
c59f5781 2406
c887c79e
TF
2407Exim version 4.62
2408-----------------
2409
2410TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2411 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2412
1cce3af8
PH
2413PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2414 patch).
2415
afb3eaaf
PH
2416PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2417 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2418 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2419 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2420 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2421 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2422 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2423 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2424 451 error is used.
2425
e173618b
PH
2426PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2427
dd16e114
PH
2428PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2429 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2430 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2431
f7fd3850
PH
2432PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2433 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2434 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2435 odd errors.
2436
d87df92c
PH
2437PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2438 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2439
7e9f683d
PH
2440PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2441 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2442 option (which defaults to 0600).
2443
bfad5236
PH
2444PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2445
01c490df
PH
2446PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2447 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2448 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2449 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2450 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2451 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2452 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2453
d6629cdc
PH
2454PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2455
1cce3af8 2456
214e2000
PH
2457Exim version 4.61
2458-----------------
2459
2460PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2461 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2462 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2463 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2464 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2465 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2466 addresses as local.
2467
f9daeae0
PH
2468PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2469 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2470
7e66e54d
PH
2471PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2472
c8ea1597
PH
2473PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2474 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2475 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2476 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2477 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2478 grumble.
2479
911f6fde
PH
2480PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2481 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2482
47ca6d6c
PH
2483PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2484 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2485 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2486 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2487 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2488
ed0e9820
PH
2489PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2490 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2491 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2492 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2493
eff37e47
PH
2494PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2495 be the same on different OS.
2496
1921d2ea
PH
2497PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2498 testing.
2499
b3f69ca8
JJ
2500JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2501 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2502
2503JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2504 in 4.61-PH/06
2505
424a1c63
PH
2506PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2507 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2508 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2509 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2510 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2511 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2512 bounce message.
2513
7a100415
PH
2514PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2515 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2516 when Exim was called.
2517
19b9dc85
PH
2518PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2519 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2520
309bd837
PH
2521PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2522 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2523 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2524 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2525
59e82a2a
PH
2526PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2527 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2528 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2529 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2530 changes:
2531
2532 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2533 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2534 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2535
2536 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2537 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2538 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2539
9edc04ce
PH
2540PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2541 feature).
2542
1349e1e5
PH
2543PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2544 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2545 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2546 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2547 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2548 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2549 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2550 values from the SRV records were lost.
2551
ea49d0e1
PH
2552PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2553 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2554 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2555
064a94c9
PH
2556PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2557 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2558 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2559
727071f8
PH
2560PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2561 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2562 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2563 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2564 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2565 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2566 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2567 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2568 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2569 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2570
f78eb7c6
PH
2571PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2572 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2573 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2574
21c28500
PH
2575PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2576 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2577
2578PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2579 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2580 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2581 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2582 is given.
2583
1688f43b
PH
2584PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2585 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2586 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2587
2588PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2589 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2590 PH/23 above applies.
2591
9675b384
PH
2592PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2593 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2594 (for which there is an explicit test).
2595
6a3f1455
PH
2596PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2597
dac79d3e
PH
2598PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2599 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2600 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2601 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2602 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2603
5977a0b3
PH
2604PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2605 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2606 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2607 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2608
c91535f3
PH
2609PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2610 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2611 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2612
0d46a8c8
PH
2613PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2614
278c6e6c
PH
2615PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2616
2cbb4081
PH
2617PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2618 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2619 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2620
3eef829e
PH
2621PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2622 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2623 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2624 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2625 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2626
1ab95fa6
PH
2627PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2628 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2629 the message gets confusing).
2630
230205fc
PH
2631PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2632 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2633 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2634 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2635
75e0e026
PH
2636PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2637 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2638 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2639 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2640 same order.
2641
2642PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2643 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2644 the different processes.
2645
145396a6
PH
2646PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2647
3cd34f13
PH
2648PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2649
11121d3d
JJ
2650JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2651 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2652
2653JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2654 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2655
2656JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2657 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2658 messages matching specified criteria.
2659
8def5aaf
PH
2660PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2661
929ba01c
PH
2662PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2663 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2664
2632889e
PH
2665PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2666 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2667 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2668 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2669 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2670 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2671 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2672 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2673 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2674 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2675
944a9c55
PH
2676PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2677 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2678 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2679
4a23603b
PH
2680PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2681
4730f942
PH
2682PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2683 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2684 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2685 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2686 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2687 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2688 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2689 the variable.
2690
30dba1e6
PH
2691PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2692 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2693
382afc6b
PH
2694PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2695
a86229cf
PH
2696PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2697
50c99ba6
PH
2698PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2699
d35e429d
PH
2700PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2701 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2702 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2703 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2704 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2705 size of the count of files.
2706
f90d018c
PH
2707PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2708
75def545
PH
2709PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2710 used in LMTP mode:
2711
2712 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2713 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2714 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2715 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2716
2717 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2718 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2719 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2720
2721PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2722 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2723 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2724 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2725 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2726
c46782ef
PH
2727PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2728 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2729
71fafd95
PH
2730PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2731 will now be deprecated.
2732
2c5db4fd
PH
2733PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2734
9cf6b11a
JJ
2735JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2736 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2737 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2738
2739JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2740 with very large, slow to parse queues
2741
2742JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2743
2744JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2745
898d150f
PH
2746PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2747 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2748 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2749 SMTP output lines.
2750
46218253
PH
2751PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2752 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2753 Sieve code now uses this.
2754
e97957bc
PH
2755PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2756 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2757
81e509d7
PH
2758PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2759 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2760
3d240ff7
PH
2761PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2762
b37c4101
PH
2763PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2764 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2765 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2766 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2767 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2768
79378e0f
PH
2769PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2770 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2771 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2772 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2773
e49c7bb4
PH
2774PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2775
d114ec46
PH
2776PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2777
f3d7df6c
PH
2778PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2779 is preferred over IPv4.
2780
715ab376
PH
2781PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2782 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2783 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2784 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2785 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2786 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2787 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2788
6b31b150
PH
2789PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2790 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2791 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2792
2793PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2794
d515a917
PH
2795PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2796 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2797 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2798 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2799 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2800 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2801 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2802 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2803 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2804 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2805 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2806
9b8fadde
PH
2807PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2808 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2809 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2810
214e2000 2811
5de37277
PH
2812Exim version 4.60
2813-----------------
2814
cc38ddbf
PH
2815PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2816
2817 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2818 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2819
2820 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2821 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2822 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2823
72fdd6ae
PH
2824PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2825
2826 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2827 not a single digit.
2828
2829 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2830 string.
2831
2832 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2833 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2834 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2835 silly things.
2836
2837 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2838 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2839
2840 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2841 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2842
cb741023
PH
2843PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2844 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2845 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2846
f174f16e
PH
2847PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2848 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2849
c25242d7
PH
2850PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2851 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2852
2853 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2854
2855 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2856 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2857 this:
2858
2859 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2860
82c19f95
PH
2861PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2862 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2863 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2864 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2865 identical. For example:
2866
2867 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2868
2869 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2870 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2871 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2872
d7ffbc12
PH
2873PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2874 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2875 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2876 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2877
9f526266
PH
2878PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2879 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2880 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2881 message.
2882
87fcc8b9
PH
2883PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2884
2885 o fixes some comments
2886 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2887 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2888 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2889 and documents the missing references header update
2890
2891 and most important:
2892
2893 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2894 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2895 result)
2896
456682f5
PH
2897PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2898 Electronic Mail") by including:
2899
2900 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2901
2902 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2903 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2904 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2905 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2906 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2907
2908 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2909
2910 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2911
2912 The auto-replied keyword:
2913
2914 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2915 message by an automatic process,
2916
2917 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2918
2919 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2920 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2921
2922 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2923 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2924 other messages.
2925
3e46c1aa
PH
2926PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2927 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2928
49826d12
PH
2929PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2930
eba0c039
PH
2931PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2932 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2933 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2934
a0d6ba8a
PH
2935PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2936 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2937 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2938
f0917727
PH
2939PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2940 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2941 and treats the condition as false.
2942
096fee00
PH
2943PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2944
024bd3c2
PH
2945PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2946 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2947 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2948 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2949 not changing the active code.
2950
2951 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2952 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2953
2954 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2955 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2956
df199fec
PH
2957PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2958 (Bugzilla #53).
2959
d27f1df3
PH
2960PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2961 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2962 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2963 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2964 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2965 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2966 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2967 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2968 the text comparison.
2969
96776534
PH
2970PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2971 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2972 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2973 The same fix has been applied.
2974
5de37277 2975
9a799bc0
PH
2976Exim version 4.54
2977-----------------
2978
2979PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2980 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2981 It now does.
2982
99a4b039
PH
2983PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2984 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2985
2986PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2987
4b233853
PH
2988PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2989 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2990 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2991 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2992 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2993
8857ccfd
PH
2994TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2995 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2996 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2997 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2998 or /domain=).
2999
433a2980
PH
3000PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3001 testing suite.
3002
3e46c1aa 3003
9a799bc0 3004
e3a311ba
TK
3005Exim version 4.53
3006-----------------
3007
3008TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3009 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3010
13b685f9
PH
3011PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3012
395ff96d
PH
3013PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3014
5b68f6e4
PH
3015PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3016 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3017 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3018
1ab52c69
PH
3019PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3020 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3021 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3022
b07e6aa3
PH
3023PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3024 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3025 operating systems.
3026
254e032f
PH
3027PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3028 ${stat: expansion item.
3029
3af76a81
PH
3030PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3031 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3032
2548ba04
PH
3033PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3034 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3035 file for comments.
3036
b6c6011d
PH
3037PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3038
cf39cf57
PH
3039PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3040 setting.
3041
f1513293
PH
3042PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3043 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3044
727549a4
PH
3045TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3046
af46795e
PH
3047PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3048 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3049 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3050 the end of the subprocess.
3051
d7b47fd0
PH
3052PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3053 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3054 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3055 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3056 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3057
ee744174
JJ
3058JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3059
b582ab87
PH
3060TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3061
41a13e0a
PH
3062PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3063 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3064
f625cc5a
PH
3065PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3066
3067PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3068
21f7af35
PH
3069PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3070 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3071 HP-UX compiler.
3072
31480e42
PH
3073PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3074
2d280592
PH
3075PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3076 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3077 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3078
7cd1141b
PH
3079PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3080 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3081
3082PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3083 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3084
750af86e
PH
3085PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3086 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3087
3088 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3089 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3090
3091 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3092 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3093 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3094 contributed by a Radius user.
3095
3096PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3097 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3098
4304270b
TK
3099TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3100 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3101
750af86e
PH
3102PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3103 available.
3104
64ffc24f
PH
3105PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3106 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3107 received.
3108
5dd9625b
PH
3109PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3110 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3111 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3112 header lines when this was not necessary.
3113
5591031b
PH
3114PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3115
ba18e66a
PH
3116PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3117 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3118 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3119 exists".
3120
9cec981f
PH
3121PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3122 -bV or -d is used.
3123
aa2b5c79
PH
3124PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3125 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3126 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3127 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3128
48a53b7f
PH
3129PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3130
1c59d63b
PH
3131PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3132
671012da
TK
3133TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3134
1509d3a8
PH
3135PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3136
3137PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3138 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3139 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3140 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3141 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3142 settings.
3143
3144PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3145
2fe1a124
PH
3146PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3147 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3148 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3149 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3150 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3151 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3152 which is clearly wrong.
3153
8800895a
PH
3154PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3155
ccfdb010
PH
3156PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3157 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3158 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3159 subsequently added.
3160
1130bfb0
PH
3161PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3162 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3163
ebcb507f
PH
3164PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3165
c35e155c
PH
3166PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3167 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3168
95d1f782
PH
3169PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3170 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3171
fd6de02e
PH
3172PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3173 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3174
58de37c5
PH
3175PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3176 recipients, not senders.
3177
261cf466
TF
3178TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3179 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3180
3ee512ff
PH
3181PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3182
e08c430f
PH
3183PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3184
bef5a11f
PH
3185PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3186 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3187 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3188 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3189
7546de58
TF
3190TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3191
e5d5a95f
TF
3192TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3193 clock is set back in time.
3194
2e88a017
TF
3195TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3196 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3197
a5f65aa4
TF
3198TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3199 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3200
e7726cbf
PH
3201PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3202 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3203 (see PH/47 above).
3204
a7fdad5b
TF
3205TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3206 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3207 header rewrites.
3208
6af56900
PH
3209PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3210 type ("H").
3211
0925ede6
PH
3212PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3213
66afa403
TF
3214TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3215 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3216 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3217
0154e85a
TF
3218TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3219 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3220 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3221 helo verification defer as a failure.
3222
16f12c76
PH
3223PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3224 actual error message.
3225
bbe902f0 3226
e5a9dba6
PH
3227Exim version 4.52
3228-----------------
3229
3230TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3231
22c3b60b
PH
3232PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3233 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3234 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3235 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3236
06a9b4b5
PH
3237TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3238
c1ac6996
PH
3239PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3240 can still be requested.
3241
9c7a242c
PH
3242PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3243 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3244 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3245 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3246
87ba3f5f
PH
3247TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3248 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3249 circumstances, but probably never did.
3250
3251PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3252 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3253 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3254 in the header line.
3255
29aba418
TF
3256TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3257
fe0dab11
TF
3258TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3259 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3260
11d337a4
TK
3261TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3262
3263TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3264
415c8f3b
PH
3265PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3266 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3267 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3268 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3269 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3270 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3271
958541e9
PH
3272PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3273 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3274 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3275 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3276 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3277 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3278
c206415f
TK
3279TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3280 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3281
2a4be8f9
PH
3282PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3283 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3284
1cba11c5
SC
3285SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3286 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3287
3288SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3289
3290SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3291
3292SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3293
3294SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3295
3296SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3297
3298SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3299
1005d00e
TK
3300TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3301
3302TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3303 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3304 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3305
3306TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3307 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3308 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3309 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3310
9b4768fa
PH
3311PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3312 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3313 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3314
3315PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3316 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3317 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3318 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3319
0d7eb84a
PH
3320PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3321 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3322 to be made).
3323
3324PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3325 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3326 should work with maildirs and everything.
3327
40727bee
TK
3328TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3329 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3330
554d2369
TF
3331TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3332 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3333
1f922db1
PH
3334PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3335 function for BDB 4.3.
3336
ef213c3b
PH
3337PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3338
8ac170f3
PH
3339PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3340 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3341 involved.
3342
b1c749bb
PH
3343PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3344 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3345 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3346 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3347 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3348 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3349
4aac9b49
PH
3350PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3351 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3352 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3353 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3354 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3355 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3356 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3357 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3358
294520c8
TK
3359TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3360 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3361 details.
3362
5bd022fe
PH
3363PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3364 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3365
90e9ce59
PH
3366PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3367 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3368 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3369 test. It is now used for both.
3370
5ea81592
PH
3371PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3372 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3373 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3374 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3375 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3376 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3377
c6c2dc1d
PH
3378PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3379 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3380 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3381 string_vformat().
3382
fffffe4c
PH
3383PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3384 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3385 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3386
9a26b6b2
PH
3387PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3388 experimental DomainKeys support:
3389
3390 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3391 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3392 the control was given.
3393
3394 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3395
4aee0225
PH
3396PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3397
32d668a5
PH
3398PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3399
8187c3f3
PH
3400PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3401 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3402 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3403 db.h files).
3404
ff790e47 3405PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3406 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3407 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3408 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3409 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3410 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3411 course.
ff790e47 3412
5417f6d1
PH
3413PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3414 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3415 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3416 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3417 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3418 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3419
59cf8544
PH
3420PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3421 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3422 do -d+all out of habit.
3423
e7ad8a65
PH
3424PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3425 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3426 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3427
ade42478
PH
3428PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3429 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3430 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3431 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3432 record types that Exim uses.
3433
182ad5cf
PH
3434PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3435 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3436 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3437 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3438 non-existent file that was broken.
3439
b0d9fc80
TK
3440TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3441 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3442
3443TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3444 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3445 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3446
3447TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3448
47c7a64a
PH
3449PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3450 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3451 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3452 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3453 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3454 same time.
3455
a388bce4
SC
3456SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3457 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3458 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3459 at a slight CPU cost.
3460
3461SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3462 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3463
3464SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3465 by Marc Sherman.
3466
0793e4ed
SC
3467SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3468
c58b88df
PH
3469PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3470 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3471
e7ad8a65 3472
7982096b
PH
3473Exim version 4.51
3474-----------------
3475
1a46a8c5
PH
3476TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3477 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3478
2f079f46 3479TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3480
3481TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3482
3483PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3484 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3485
3486PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3487 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3488 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3489 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3490 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3491 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3492 file.
3493
3494PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3495 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3496 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3497 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3498 these two options.
3499
3500PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3501 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3502 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3503 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3504 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3505 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3506 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3507 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3508
3509PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3510 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3511
3512PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3513 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3514 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3515 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3516 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3517 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3518
3519PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3520 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3521 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3522 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3523
3524PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3525 Finch).
3526
3527PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3528 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3529
49c2d5ea
PH
3530PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3531 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3532 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3533 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3534 message.
49c2d5ea 3535
bf759a8b
PH
3536PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3537
83364d30
PH
3538PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3539 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3540
7999bbd7
PH
3541PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3542 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3543 to what was transported.)
3544
7dbf77c9
PH
3545TF/01 Added $received_time.
3546
74e0617f
PH
3547PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3548 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3549 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3550 spamd_address settings.
3551
2f079f46
PH
3552PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3553 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3554 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3555 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3556 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3557
8c841523
PH
3558PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3559
7766a4f0
PH
3560PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3561 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3562 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3563 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3564 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3565
8b417f2c
PH
3566PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3567 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3568
901f42cb
PH
3569PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3570 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3571 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3572 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3573 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3574 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3575 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3576 for failure.
3577
f9b9210e
PH
3578PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3579 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3580 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3581 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3582 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3583 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3584 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3585 "input=".
3586
54cdb463
PH
3587PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3588
cf00dad6
PH
3589PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3590 driver and ACL definitions.
3591
acb1b346
PH
3592PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3593 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3594
c5ddb310
PH
3595PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3596 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3597 understands it better than I do:
3598
3599 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3600 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3601
3602 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3603 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3604 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3605 => three warnings about OTP not working
3606 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3607
3608 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3609 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3610 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3611 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3612 for each call.)
3613 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3614 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3615
3616 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3617 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3618 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3619
31619da6
PH
3620PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3621 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3622 specified.
3623
bebaf0fc
PH
3624PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3625 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3626 "Linux".
3627
475fe28a
PH
3628PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3629 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3630 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3631
3632 warn !verify = sender
3633 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3634
3635 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3636 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3637
7e8bec7a
PH
3638PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3639
3640 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3641 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3642
3643 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3644 nomenclature these days.)
3645
e4a89c47
PH
3646PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3647 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3648
5ca2a9a1
PH
3649PH/30 In these circumstances:
3650 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3651 . First host does not offer TLS;
3652 . First host accepts first address;
3653 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3654 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3655 . Second host accepts second address.
3656 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3657 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3658 address.
7e8bec7a 3659
c688b954
PH
3660PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3661 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3662 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3663 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3664 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3665
fed77020
PH
3666PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3667 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3668
7fe1560f
PH
3669PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3670 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3671
ebb6e6d5
PH
3672PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3673 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3674 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3675
9c4e8f60
PH
3676PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3677 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3678 overlooked.
3679
3680PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3681
d7174846
PH
3682PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3683 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3684 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3685 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3686 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3687 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3688 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3689
3690 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3691 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3692 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3693 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3694 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3695
3696 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3697 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3698 routed further.
3699
cfe75fc3
PH
3700PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3701 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3702 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3703 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3704 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3705 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3706
be22d70e
PH
3707PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3708
0612b098
PH
3709PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3710 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3711 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3712 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3713 printable escape sequences.
3714
2e0c1448
PH
3715PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3716 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3717 body only.
3718
447d236c
PH
3719PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3720 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3721 are as follows:
3722
3723 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3724 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3725 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3726 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3727 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3728
3729 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3730 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3731 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3732
d20976dc
PH
3733PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3734
f656d135
PH
3735PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3736 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3737 play with."
3738
2e2a30b4
PH
3739PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3740 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3741 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3742 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3743 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3744 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3745 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3746 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3747 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3748 the log output.
3749
9176e9f0
PH
3750PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3751 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3752 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3753 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3754 "make".
3755
7982096b 3756
bbe902f0
PH
3757A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3758----------------------------------------
3759
3760Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3761changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3762needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3763in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3764that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3765release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3766from 4.43.
3767
3768I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
37694.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3770those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3771historical information.
3772
3773
f7b63901 3774Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3775-----------------
3776
5fe762f6
PH
3777 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3778
139059f6 3779 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3780 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3781
7086e875
PH
3782 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3783 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3784 place.
3785
35af9f61
PH
3786 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3787 filter fails to execute.
3788
b668c215
PH
3789 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3790 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3791 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3792 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3793 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3794
a494b1e1
PH
3795 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3796
3797 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3798 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3799 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3800 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3801
c5fcb476
PH
3802 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3803 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3804 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3805 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3806 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3807
69358f02
PH
3808 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3809
5be20824
PH
381010. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3811
eb2c0248
PH
381211. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3813 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3814 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3815 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3816
2a3eea10
PH
381712. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3818 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3819 sender verification.
3820
382113. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3822 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3823
23c7ff99
PH
382414. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3825
4deaf07d
PH
382615. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3827 connection timeout.
3828
926e1192
PH
382916. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3830 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3831
650edc6f
PH
383217. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3833 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3834
2c7db3f5
PH
383518. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3836 information about exactly what failed.
3837
3d235903
PH
383819. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3839
7c7ad977
PH
384020. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3841 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3842 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3843
981756db
PH
384421. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3845 It is now set to "smtps".
3846
d4eb88df
PH
384722. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3848 ignore_target_hosts.
3849
385023. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3851 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3852 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3853 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3854 "[x.x.x.x]".
3855
7d468ab8
PH
385624. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3857 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3858 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3859
386025. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3861 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3862 wake it up if nothing else does.
3863
62c0818f
PH
386426. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3865 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3866 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3867 end up negative.
3868
26034054
PH
386927. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3870 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3871
af66f652
PH
387228. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3873
90af77f4
PH
387429. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3875 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3876 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3877 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3878 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3879 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3880 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3881 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3882
d8ef3577
PH
388330. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3884 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3885 than one IP address.
3886
5cb8cbc6
PH
388731. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3888 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3889 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3890 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3891
14702f5b
PH
389232. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3893 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3894 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3895 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3896 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3897 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3898
063b1e99
PH
389933. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3900 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3901 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3902 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3903
652e1b65
PH
390434. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3905 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3906 respected.
3907
6f0c9a4f
PH
390835. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3909 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3910 $sender_host_address.
3911
33397d19
PH
391236. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3913 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3914 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3915 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3916 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3917 very small.
3918
7bb56e1f
PH
391937. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3920
3921 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3922 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3923
ea3bc19b
PH
3924 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3925 just the host names, not the priorities.
3926
3927 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3928 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3929 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3930
ea3bc19b 3931 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3932 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3933
0bcb2a0e
PH
393438. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3935 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3936 domain.
3937
2ac0e484
PH
393839. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3939
4e1fde53
PH
394040. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3941 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3942
de365ded
PH
394341. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3944 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3945 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3946
f05da2e8
PH
394742. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3948
d6453af2
PH
394943. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3950
f7b63901
PH
395144. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3952
395345. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3954 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3955 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3956 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3957 because the tests only now provoked it.
3958
a444213a
PH
395946. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3960 (this can affect the format of dates).
3961
0ec020ea
PH
396247. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3963 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3964 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3965 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3966
b1206957
PH
396748. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3968
396949. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3970 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3971 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3972 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3973
26dd5a95
PH
397450. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3975 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3976 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3977
343b2385
PH
397851. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3979 autoreply.
3980
1c5466b9
PH
398152. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3982 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3983 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3984 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3985 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3986 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3987 is going on).
3988
55ee9ee3
PH
398953. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3990 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3991 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3992 the line.
3993
d38f8232
PH
399454. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3995 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3996 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3997
3998 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3999 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4000 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4001 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4002 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4003 so I produce this patch..."
4004
3295e65b
PH
4005 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4006 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4007 is not defined.
4008
7102e136
PH
400955. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4010 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4011 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4012 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4013 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4014
3ca0ba97
PH
401556. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4016
c2bcbe20
PH
401757. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4018 long debug lines gets shown.
4019
18ce445d
PH
402058. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4021 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4022
1f5b4c3d
PH
402359. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4024
4025 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4026 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4027 of $primary_hostname.
4028
b975ba52
PH
402960. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4030 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4031 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4032 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4033 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4034 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4035 by change 4.50/55 above.
4036
4037 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4038 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4039 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4040 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4041 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4042 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4043 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4044
404561. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4046 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4047 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4048 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4049
17ffcae7
PH
405062. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4051 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4052
d95f9fdb
PH
405363. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4054 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4055 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4056 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4057 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4058
86b8287f
PH
405964. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4060 This has been fixed.
4061
60dc5e56
PH
406265. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4063 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4064 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4065 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4066 the caching.)
4067
533244af
PH
406866. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4069
a5a28604
PH
407067. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4071 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4072 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4073 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4074
7e634d24
PH
407568. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4076 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4077
3e11c26b
PH
407869. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4079 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4080 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4081
6729cf78
PH
408270. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4083 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4084 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4085 message there.
4086
00f00ca5
PH
408771. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4088 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4089 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4090
c9bdd01c
PH
409172. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4092 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4093 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4094 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4095
d43194df
PH
409673. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4097 during host lookups.
4098
fe5b5d0b
PH
409974. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4100 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4101
4102 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4103
76a2d7ba
PH
410475. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4105 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4106 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4107 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4108 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4109 background.
4110
411176. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4112 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4113
04f7d5b9
PH
411477. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4115 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4116 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4117
bc60667e
PH
411878. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4119
bb6e88ff
PH
412079. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4121 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4122 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4123 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4124 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4125 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4126 process earlier.
4127
1e70f85b
PH
412880. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4129 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4130 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4131 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4132 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4133
413481. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4135 tables).
4136
4e01f9d6
PH
413782. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4138
1ee1cef2
PH
413983. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4140 "vacation" handling.
4141
6e2b4ccc
PH
414284. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4143 OS variants using glibc.
4144
8e669ac1
PH
414585. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4146
495ae4b0 4147
bbe902f0
PH
4148----------------------------------------------------
4149See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4150----------------------------------------------------
4151
4152
4153Exim version 4.44
4154-----------------
4155
4156 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4157 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4158 transport
4159
4160 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4161 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4162 place.
4163
4164 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4165 filter fails to execute.
4166
4167 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4168 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4169 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4170 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4171 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4172
4173 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4174 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4175 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4176 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4177
4178 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4179 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4180 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4181 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4182 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4183
4184 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4185
4186 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4187 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4188 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4189 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4190
4191 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4192 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4193 sender verification.
4194
419510. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4196 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4197
419811. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4199 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4200
420112. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4202 ignore_target_hosts.
4203
420413. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4205 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4206 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4207 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4208 "[x.x.x.x]".
4209
421014. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4211 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4212 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4213
421415. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4215 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4216 wake it up if nothing else does.
4217
421816. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4219 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4220 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4221 end up negative.
4222
422317. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4224 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4225
ea3a6f44 422618. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4227
422819. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4229 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4230 empty pattern.
4231
423220. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4233 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4234 one IP address.
4235
ea3a6f44
NM
423621. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4237 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4238 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4239 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4240 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4241 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4242
ea3a6f44
NM
424322. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4244 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4245 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4246
424723. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4248 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4249 $sender_host_address.
4250
425124. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4252
ea3a6f44
NM
425325. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4254 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4255 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4256
425726. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4258 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4259
ea3a6f44
NM
426027. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4261 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4262
ea3a6f44
NM
426328. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4264 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4265 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4266 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4267
426829. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4269 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4270 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4271
ea3a6f44
NM
427230. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4273 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4274 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4275 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4276
ea3a6f44
NM
427731. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4278 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4279 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4280
ea3a6f44
NM
428131. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4282 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4283
ea3a6f44
NM
428432. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4285 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4286 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4287 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4288 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4289 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4290 is going on).
bbe902f0 4291
ea3a6f44
NM
429233. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4293 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4294 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4295 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4296 CAN-2005-0021
4297
ea3a6f44
NM
429834. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4299 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4300 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4301 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4302 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4303 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4304 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4305
4306 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4307 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4308 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4309 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4310 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4311 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4312 CAN-2005-0021
4313
ea3a6f44
NM
431435. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4315 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4316 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4317 CAN-2005-0022
4318
ea3a6f44
NM
431936. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4320 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4321 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4322 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4323 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4324
ea3a6f44
NM
432537. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4326 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4327 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4328 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4329 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4330
ea3a6f44
NM
433138. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4332 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4333 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4334 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4335 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4336
4337
495ae4b0
PH
4338Exim version 4.43
4339-----------------
4340
4341 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4342 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4343 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4344 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4345 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4346 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4347 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4348
4349 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4350 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4351 the delivery.
4352
4353 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4354
4355 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4356
4357 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4358 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4359 to local_scan().
4360
4361 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4362 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4363 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4364 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4365 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4366
4367 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4368 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4369
4370 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4371
4372 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4373
437410. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4375 header_sender only.
4376
437711. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4378 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4379
438012. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4381 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4382 affecting debugging statements).
4383
438413. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4385
438614. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4387 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4388 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4389 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4390 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4391 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4392 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4393 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4394 after the received time, and all would be well.
4395
439615. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4397 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4398 condition in an expansion string.
4399
440016. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4401
440217. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4403 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4404 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4405 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4406 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4407 job under whatever limits there are.
4408
440918. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4410
441119. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4412 space).
4413
441420. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4415 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4416 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4417 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4418 return path is set.
4419
442021. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4421 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4422 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4423 binary data in such strings.
4424
442522. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4426
442723. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4428 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4429 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4430 failure, which is pointless.
4431
443224. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4433
443425. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4435
443626. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4437 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4438 Sender: header lines.
4439
444027. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4441 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4442 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4443
444428. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4445 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4446 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4447 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4448 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4449 happens.
4450
445129. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4452 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4453 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4454 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4455 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4456
445730. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4458 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4459 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4460 1024.
4461
446231. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4463 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4464
446532. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4466 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4467
446833. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4469
447032. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4471
447233. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4473
447434. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4475 syntax error.
4476
447735. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4478
447936. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4480
448137. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4482 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4483 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4484 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4485
448638. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4487 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4488
4489
4490Exim version 4.42
4491-----------------
4492
4493 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4494 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4495 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4496 it was not quoted.
4497 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4498 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4499 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4500 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4501 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4502 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4503
4504 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4505 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4506 verification failure".
4507
4508 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4509 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4510 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4511 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4512
4513 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4514 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4515 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4516 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4517 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4518 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4519 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4520 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4521 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4522 treated as a timeout.
4523
4524 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4525 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4526 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4527 not set for Exim filters).
4528
4529 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4530 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4531 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4532
4533 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4534
4535 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4536 try to make them clearer.
4537
4538 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4539 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4540
4541 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4542
4543 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4544
454510. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4546 only the Cygwin environment.
4547
454811. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4549 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4550 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4551 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4552 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4553
455412. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4555 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4556 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4557 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4558 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4559 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4560 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4561
456213. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4563 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4564
456514. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4566
4567 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4568 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4569 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4570
4571 To: susanne@some.where
4572
4573 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4574 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4575 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4576 of addresses in From: header lines).
4577
4578 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4579 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4580 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4581
4582 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4583 treated as non-personal.
4584
4585 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4586 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4587
458815. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4589
459016. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4591
459217. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4593 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4594 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4595
459618. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4597 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4598
459919. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4600 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4601 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4602 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4603 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4604 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4605
460620. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4607 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4608 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4609 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4610 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4611 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4612 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4613 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4614
4615 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4616
461721. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4618 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4619
462022. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4621 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4622 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4623
462423. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4625 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4626
462724. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4628 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4629 rather than long int.
4630
463125. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4632
463326. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4634
4635
4636Exim version 4.41
4637-----------------
4638
4639 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4640 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4641 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4642 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4643 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4644 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4645
4646
4647Exim version 4.40
4648-----------------
4649
4650 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4651 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4652
4653 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4654 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4655 socklen_t is defined.
4656
4657 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4658 always exist.
4659
4660 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4661 configured.
4662
4663 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4664 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4665 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4666 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4667 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4668
4669 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4670 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4671 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4672 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4673
4674 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4675 of flapping under certain conditions.
4676
4677 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4678 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4679 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4680
4681 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4682
468310. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4684
468511. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4686 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4687 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4688 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4689
469012. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4691 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4692 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4693 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4694 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4695 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4696 preserved with the message after it was received.
4697
469813. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4699 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4700 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4701 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4702 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4703 test suite worked just fine.
4704
470514. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4706 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4707 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4708
470915. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4710 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4711 string.
4712
471316. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4714 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4715 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4716 does not fully solve it.
4717
471817. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4719 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4720 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4721 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4722 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4723
472418. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4725 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4726 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4727
472819. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4729 string, for example:
4730
4731 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4732
4733 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4734 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4735 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4736 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4737 the routers could not see them.
4738
473920. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4740 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4741
474221. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4743 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4744 output).
4745
474622. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4747 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4748 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4749 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4750 that needed quoting.
4751
475223. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4753 was not being matched caselessly.
4754
475524. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4756 backslashes.
4757
475825. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4759 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4760 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4761 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4762 when use_sender is false.
4763
476426. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4765
476627. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4767
476828. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4769
477029. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4771 the configuration file.
4772
477330. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4774 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4775
477631. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4777
477832. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4779 bytes in the message body.
4780
478133. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4782 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4783 delivery.
4784
478534. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4786
478735. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4788
478936. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4790 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4791 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4792 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4793 another IP address.
4794
4795
4796Exim version 4.34
4797-----------------
4798
4799 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4800 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4801
4802 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4803 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4804 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4805 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4806 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4807
4808 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4809 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4810
4811 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4812 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4813 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4814
4815 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4816 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4817 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4818
4819 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4820 for routers.
4821
4822 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4823 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4824 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4825 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4826 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4827 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4828 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4829
4830
4831Exim version 4.33
4832-----------------
4833
4834 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4835 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4836 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4837 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4838 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4839 default (and expected) setting.
4840
4841 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4842 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4843 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4844 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4845
4846 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4847 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4848
4849 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4850 in domain lists.
4851
4852 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4853 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4854 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4855 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4856 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4857 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4858
4859 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4860 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4861 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4862
4863 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4864 part (NOT match_host).
4865
4866 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4867
4868 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4869 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4870 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4871 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4872 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4873 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4874 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4875 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4876 the same named file.
4877
487810. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4879 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4880 when Exim is built.
4881
488211. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4883 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4884 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4885 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4886 a host name.
4887
488812. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4889 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4890 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4891
489213. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4893
489414. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4895
489615. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4897
489816. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4899 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4900
490117. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4902 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4903 before starting the TLS session.
4904
490518. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4906
490719. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4908 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4909
491020. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4911 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4912 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4913 colon in the middle).
4914
4915
4916Exim version 4.32
4917-----------------
4918
4919 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4920 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4921 multiple configurations are in use.
4922
4923 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4924 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4925 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4926 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4927 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4928 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4929
4930 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4931 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4932
4933 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4934 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4935 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4936
4937 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4938 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4939 occurs.
4940
4941 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4942 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4943
4944 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4945
4946 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4947 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4948
4949 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4950
4951 -prval:sval
4952
4953 is equivalent to
4954
4955 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4956
4957 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4958 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4959 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4960 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4961 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4962
496310. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4964 Exim's behaviour:
4965
4966 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4967 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4968 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4969 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4970 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4971 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4972
4973 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4974 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4975 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4976 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4977 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4978 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4979 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4980 string.
4981
4982 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4983 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4984 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4985 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4986 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4987
498811. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4989
499012. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4991 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4992 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4993
499413. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4995
499614. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4997 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4998 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4999 information.
5000
500115. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5002 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5003
500416. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5005 Three changes have been made:
5006
5007 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5008 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5009 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5010 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5011 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5012
5013 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5014 been restored.
5015
5016 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5017 the modified behaviour.
5018
5019
5020Exim version 4.31
5021-----------------
5022
5023 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5024 Larry Rosenman.
5025
5026 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5027 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5028
5029 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5030 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5031 try to track down a specific problem.
5032
5033 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5034 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5035 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5036
5037 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5038 warning.
5039
5040 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5041 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5042 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5043 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5044 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5045 some earlier ones do not.
5046
5047 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5048
5049 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5050 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5051 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5052 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5053 address literals are enabled, of course).
5054
5055 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5056
505710. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5058 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5059 by a command such as
5060
5061 exim -f "" ...
5062
5063 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5064
506511. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5066
506712. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5068 remained set. It is now erased.
5069
507013. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5071 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5072
507314. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5074 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5075 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5076 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5077 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5078 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5079 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5080 appropriate error code.
5081
508215. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5083 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5084 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5085 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5086 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5087 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5088
508916. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5090 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5091 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5092
509317. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5094 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5095 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5096 terminate the header.
5097
509818. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5099 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5100 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5101
510219. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5103 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5104 (4.30/29). In particular:
5105
5106 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5107 imposed.
5108
5109 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5110 to write a maildirsize file.
5111
5112 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5113 the transport, the new value overrides.
5114
5115 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5116 count.
5117
511820. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5119 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5120 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5121 space or a tab.
5122
512321. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5124 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5125 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5126 the fallback hosts.
5127
512822. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5129 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5130 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5131
513223. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5133 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5134 using a union.
5135
513624. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5137 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5138 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5139
514025. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5141
514226. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5143
514427. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5145
514628. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5147 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5148 become corrupted.
5149
515029. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5151 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5152 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5153 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5154 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5155 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5156 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5157 too great.
5158
515930. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5160 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5161 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5162 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5163 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5164 incorrectly.
5165
516631. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5167 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5168 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5169 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5170 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5171 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5172 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5173 cached value only when the same options are set.
5174
517532. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5176
517733. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5178 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5179 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5180 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5181 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5182
518334: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5184 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5185 it is clearly obsolete.
5186
518735. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5188 transport.
5189
519036. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5191 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5192 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5193 times.
5194
519537. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5196 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5197 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5198 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5199 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5200
520138. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5202 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5203 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5204 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5205
520639. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5207
5208 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5209
5210 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5211 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5212 2^31.
5213
521440. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5215 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5216 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5217 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5218 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5219 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5220 $localpart_data.
5221
522241. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5223 with the -f command-line option.
5224
522542. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5226 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5227 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5228 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5229 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5230 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5231
523243. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5233 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5234 line.
5235
523644. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5237 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5238 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5239 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5240 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5241 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5242 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5243 buffer is too small.
5244
524545. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5246 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5247
524846. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5249 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5250 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5251 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5252 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5253 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5254 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5255 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5256 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5257
525847. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5259 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5260 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5261
526248. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5263 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5264 ACL").
5265
526649. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5267 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5268 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5269 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5270 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5271
527250. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5273 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5274 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5275 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5276 is set.
5277
527851. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5279
528052. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5281
528253. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5283 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5284
528554. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5286 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5287 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5288
528955. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5290 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5291 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5292 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5293 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5294
529556. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5296 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5297 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5298 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5299 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5300 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5301 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5302
530357. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5304 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5305 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5306 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5307 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5308 the test of how many are available.
5309
531058. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5311 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5312 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5313 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5314 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5315 new message is started.
5316
531759. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5318 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5319
532060. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5321 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5322
532361. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5324 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5325 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5326 is no long logged.
5327
532862. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5329 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5330 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5331 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5332 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5333 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5334 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5335
533663. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5337 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5338 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5339 interpreted as octal.
5340
534164. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5342 setting.
5343
534465. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5345 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5346 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5347 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5348 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5349 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5350
535166. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5352 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5353 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5354 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5355
5356 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5357 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5358 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5359 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5360
5361 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5362 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5363 is a bug fix.
5364
5365 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5366 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5367
536867. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5369
537068. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5371 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5372 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5373 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5374
537569. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5376 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5377 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5378 supplied", which is not helpful.
5379
538070. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5381 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5382 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5383
538471. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5385 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5386 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5387 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5388 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5389 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5390 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5391 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5392
539372. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5394 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5395 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5396 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5397 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5398
539973. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5400 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5401 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5402 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5403 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5404 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5405
540674. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5407 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5408 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5409
541075. Added write_rejectlog option.
5411
541276. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5413 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5414 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5415 variables.
5416
541777. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5418
541978. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5420 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5421 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5422 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5423 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5424 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5425 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5426 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5427
542879. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5429 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5430 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5431 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5432 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5433
543480. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5435 Haardt.
5436
543781. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5438 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5439 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5440 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5441 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5442 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5443 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5444 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5445 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5446
5447
5448Exim version 4.30
5449-----------------
5450
5451 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5452 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5453 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5454
5455 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5456 fixed.
5457
5458 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5459 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5460 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5461
5462 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5463 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5464 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5465 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5466 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5467 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5468
5469 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5470 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5471 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5472 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5473 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5474 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5475 the Exim test suite.
5476
5477 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5478 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5479 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5480 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5481
5482 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5483 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5484 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5485 specify it in this variable.
5486
5487 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5488 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5489 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5490 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5491
5492 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5493 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5494 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5495 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5496
5497 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5498 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5499 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5500 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5501 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5502
5503 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5504
550510. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5506 they are logged.
5507
550811. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5509 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5510 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5511 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5512 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5513
551412. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5515 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5516
551713. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5518 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5519 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5520 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5521 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5522
552314. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5524 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5525
552615. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5527 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5528 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5529
553016. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5531 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5532
553317. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5534 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5535
553618. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5537 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5538 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5539
554019. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5541 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5542
554320. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5544 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5545 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5546 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5547
554821. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5549
555022. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5551 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5552 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5553 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5554
555523. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5556
555724. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5558 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5559
556025. Added .include_if_exists.
5561
556226. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5563 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5564 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5565 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5566 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5567 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5568
556927. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5570
557128. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5572 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5573 this.
5574
557529. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5576
557730. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5578 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5579
5580 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5581 550 Sender verify failed
5582
5583 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5584 the final line of the response.
5585
558631. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5587 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5588 all other user lookups.
5589
559032. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5591 delivery time.
5592
559333. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5594 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5595 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5596 result into an int without checking.
5597
559834. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5599 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5600 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5601
560235. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5603 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5604 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5605 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5606
560736. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5608 correctly.
5609
561037. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5611 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5612
561338. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5614 to the empty sender.
5615
561639. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5617 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5618 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5619 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5620 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5621 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5622 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5623 panic log.
5624
562540. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5626 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5627 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5628 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5629 used.
5630
563141. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5632 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5633
563442. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5635 timestamps.
5636
563743. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5638 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5639
564044. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5641
564245. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5643 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5644 logs.
5645
564646. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5647 as soon as it is encountered.
5648
564947. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5650
565148. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5652 rewritten to "<>".
5653
565449. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5655 recognizes a tab character.
5656
565750. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5658 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5659 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5660 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5661
566251. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5663
566452. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5665 crash.
5666
566753. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5668
566954. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5670
567155. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5672 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5673 2822.
5674
567556. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5676 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5677 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5678 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5679 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5680
568157. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5682 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5683
568458. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5685 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5686 list (.included file names were always shown).
5687
568859. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5689 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5690 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5691 root at that time.
5692
569360. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5694 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5695
569661. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5697
569862. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5699
570063. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5701
570264. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5703 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5704 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5705 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5706 failures to open the logs.
5707
570865. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5709 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5710 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5711 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5712 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5713 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5714 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5715
5716
5717Exim version 4.24
5718-----------------
5719
5720 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5721 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5722 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5723 change 4.23/1.
5724
5725 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5726 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5727 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5728
5729 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5730 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5731 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5732
5733 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5734 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5735 causing some misleading effects.
5736
5737 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5738 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5739 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5740
5741 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5742 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5743 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5744 queue-runner function directly.
5745
5746
5747Exim version 4.23
5748-----------------
5749
5750 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5751 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5752
5753 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5754 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5755 was always written to the default place.
5756
5757 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5758 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5759 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5760
5761 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5762
5763 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5764
5765 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5766 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5767 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5768
5769 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5770 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5771 must start.
5772
5773 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5774 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5775 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5776
5777 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5778 command line option is disabled.
5779
5780 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5781 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5782
5783 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5784
5785 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5786
5787 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5788 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5789
579010. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5791
579211. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5793 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5794 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5795 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5796 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5797 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5798
579912. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5800 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5801 timeout.
5802
580313. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5804 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5805
580614. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5807 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5808
580915. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5810 received was valid base64.
5811
581216. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5813 name of the variable that was being set.
5814
581517. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5816
581718. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5818 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5819 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5820 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5821 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5822 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5823
582419. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5825
582620. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5827 nor realm was specified.
5828
582921. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5830 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5831 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5832 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5833
583422. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5835 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5836 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5837
583823. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5839 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5840 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5841
584224. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5843 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5844 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5845 some systems use these upper case variants.
5846
584725. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5848 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5849 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5850 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5851
585226. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5853
585427. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5855 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5856
585728. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5858 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5859 expansion variable.
5860
586129. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5862
586330. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5864 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5865 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5866 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5867
586831. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5869 using it.
5870
587132. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5872 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5873 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5874
587533. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5876 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5877
587834. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5879 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5880 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5881 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5882
588335. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5884 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5885 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5886
588736. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5888
588937. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5890 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5891 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5892 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5893 aborted.
5894
589538. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5896 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5897 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5898
589939. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5900
590140. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5902 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5903
590441. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5905 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5906
590742. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5908 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5909 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5910 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5911 when emails are that large.
5912
5913
5914
5915Exim version 4.22
5916-----------------
5917
5918 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5919 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5920
5921 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5922 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5923 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5924
5925 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5926 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5927 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5928
5929 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5930 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5931 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5932 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5933 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5934
5935 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5936 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5937 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5938 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5939 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5940 ever.
5941
5942 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5943 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5944 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5945 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5946 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5947 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5948 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5949 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5950 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5951 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5952 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5953 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5954 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5955 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5956
5957 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5958 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5959 parameterised it.
5960
5961 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5962 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5963 error should be diagnosed.
5964
5965 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5966 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5967 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5968 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5969 appeared instead of "NULL".
5970
597110. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5972 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5973 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5974 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5975 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5976 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5977 proceeds).
5978
5979 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5980 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5981 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5982
5983
5984Exim version 4.21
5985-----------------
5986
5987 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5988 or receiver verification errors.
5989
5990 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5991 name.
5992
5993 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5994 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5995 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5996 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5997
5998 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5999 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6000 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6001 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6002 shouldn't happen again.
6003
6004 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6005 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6006 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6007
6008 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6009 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6010
6011 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6012
6013 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6014 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6015
6016 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6017 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6018 RFC.
6019
602010. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6021 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6022 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6023
602411. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6025 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6026 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6027 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6028
602912. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6030 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6031 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6032 to define what should happen).
6033
603413. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6035 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6036 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6037
603814. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6039
604015. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6041
604216. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6043 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6044
604517. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
6046 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6047 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6048 structure in all cases.
6049
6050 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6051 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6052 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6053 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6054
605518. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6056 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6057 domain name.
6058
605919. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6060 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6061
606220. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6063 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6064
606521. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6066 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6067 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6068
606922. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6070 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6071 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6072
607323. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6074 the book and for uniformity.
6075
607624. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6077
607825. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6079 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6080 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6081 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6082 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6083 non-existent command as the problem.
6084
608526. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6086 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6087 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6088
608927. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6090
609128. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6092 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6093 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6094
609529. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6096 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6097 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6098 timestamps using strftime().
6099
610030. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6101 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6102
610332. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6104 transport-time rewrites.
6105
610633. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6107 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6108 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6109 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6110
611134. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6112 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6113
611435. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6115 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6116 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6117 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6118 comma and a space.
6119
612036. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6121 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6122 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6123 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6124 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6125 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6126 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6127
612837. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6129 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6130 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6131 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6132 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6133
613438. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6135 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6136 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6137 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6138 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6139 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6140 remaining text gets split now.
6141
614239. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6143 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6144 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6145 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6146
614740. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6148 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6149 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6150 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6151 $return_path.
6152
615341. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6154 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6155 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6156 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6157 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6158 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6159 passed through if needed.
6160
616142. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6162 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6163 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6164 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6165 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6166 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6167
616843. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6169 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6170 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6171 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6172 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6173
617444. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6175 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6176 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6177 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6178 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6179
618045. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6181 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6182 noticed.
6183
618446. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6185 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6186 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6187 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6188 mayhem of various kinds.
6189
619047. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6191 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6192 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6193 the right test for positive values.
6194
619548. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6196 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6197 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6198 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6199 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6200 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6201 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6202 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6203 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6204 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6205 envelope.
6206
620749. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6208 module.
6209
621050. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6211 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6212 forbidding it.
6213
621451. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6215 the existing equality matching.
6216
621752. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6218 dealing with inode numbers.
6219
622053. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6221 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6222 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6223
622454. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6225 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6226 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6227 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6228 local_scan().
6229
623055. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6231 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6232 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6233 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6234 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6235 relay addresses has also been removed.
6236
623756. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6238
623957. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6240 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6241 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6242
624358. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6244 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6245 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6246 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6247 processing applies to CR:
6248
6249 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6250 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6251
6252 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6253 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6254 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6255 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6256
625759. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6258 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6259 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6260
626160. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6262 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6263 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6264 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6265 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6266 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6267 arisen.
6268
626961. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6270 program routers.
6271
627262. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6273 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6274 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6275 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6276 adds:
6277
6278 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6279
6280 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6281
6282 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6283
628463. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6285 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6286 not considered personal.
6287
628864. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6289
629065. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6291
629266. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6293
629467. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6295 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6296 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6297 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6298 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6299 header lines, and spool format errors.
6300
630168. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6302 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6303 for more flexibility.
6304
630569. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6306 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6307 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6308
630970. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6310 Sabourenkov.
6311
631271. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6313 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6314 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6315 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6316 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6317 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6318 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6319 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6320 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6321
632272. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6323 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6324 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6325 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6326 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6327 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6328 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6329
633073. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6331 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6332 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6333
633474. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6335 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6336 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6337 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6338 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6339 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6340 instead of killing the process with assert().
6341
634275. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6343 than Unicode encoding.
6344
634576. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6346 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6347 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6348 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6349
635077. Added process_log_path.
6351
635278. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6353 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6354
635579. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6356 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6357
635880. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6359 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6360 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6361
636281. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6363 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6364 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6365 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6366 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6367 were applied:
6368
6369 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6370 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6371 as invalid.
6372
637382. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6374 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6375 they will be used during message reception.
6376
6377
6378Exim version 4.20
6379-----------------
6380
6381The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6382
6383****