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495ae4b0 1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
495ae4b0 6
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9427e879 11JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 12 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 13
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14JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
15
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16PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
17 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
18
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19JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
20 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
21
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22JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
23 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
24 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
25 before acknowledging the chunk.
26
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27PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
28 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
29 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
30
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31JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
32 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
33 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
34 should.
35
36JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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37 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
38 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
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bd8fbe36 40JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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41 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
42
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43JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
44 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
45 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
46 body hash calculated value.
47
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48JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
49 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
50 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
51
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52JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
53
54JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
55 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
56
57JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
58 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
59 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
60
61JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
62 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
63 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
64 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
65 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
66 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
67
68JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
69 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
70 past that check, despite the cost.
71
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72JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
73 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
74 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
75
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80JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
81 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 82
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83JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
84 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
85 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
86
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87JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
88 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
89 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
90 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
91 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
92 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
93 if one fails this test.
94 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
95 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
96
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97JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
98 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
99
23bb6982 100JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 101 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 102
0bd1b1ed 103JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 104 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 105
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106JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
107 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
108
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109JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
110 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
111
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112JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
113
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114JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
115 certificate).
116
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117JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
118 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
119 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
120 connection after a verify cache hit.
121 Do not update it with the verify result either.
122
123JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
124 when routing results in more than one destination address.
125
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126JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
127 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
128 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
129 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
130 when the cutthrough connection is made).
131
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132JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
133 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
134
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135JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
136 Previously they were not counted.
137
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138JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
139 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
140 that needed the lookup.
141
4c04137d 142JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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143 distinguished as "(=".
144
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145JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
146 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
147
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148JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
149
150JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
151 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 152
4c04137d 153JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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154 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
155
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156JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
157 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
158 compatible.
159
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160JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
161 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
162 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
163 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
164
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165JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
166
f59aaaaa 167JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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168 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
169 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 170
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171JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
172 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
173 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
174 be lost.
175
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176JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
177 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
178 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
179 itself :(
180
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181JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
182 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
183 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
184
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185JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
186 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
187 options.
188
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189JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
190
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191PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
192 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
193
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194PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
195 are not in the system include path.
196
ad7fc6eb 197JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 198 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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199 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
200 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 201
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202JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
203 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
204 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
205
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206JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
207
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208HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
209 an incoming connection.
210
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211HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
212 to rspamd.
213
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214HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
215 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 216
87cb4a16 217JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 218 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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219
220
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221Exim version 4.87
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224JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
225 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
226 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
227 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 228
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229TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
230 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
231
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232TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
233 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
234 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
235 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
236 outgoing I= field.
237
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238JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
239 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
240 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
241 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
242 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
243 check on the next write.
244
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245HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
246 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
247 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
248 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
249 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
250
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251JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
252 mime_regex ACL conditions.
253
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254JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
255 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
256 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
257
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258JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
259 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
260 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
261 an authenticate fail is not an error.
262
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263HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
264 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
265
4c04137d 266JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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267 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
268
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269JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
270 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
271 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
272 distinct.
273
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274JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
275
276JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
277
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278JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
279
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280JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
281 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
282
98b98887 283JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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284 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
285
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286JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
287
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288JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
289 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
290
291JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
292
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293JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
294 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
295
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296JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
297
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298JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
299 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 300 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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301 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
302 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
303 they will retry in-clear.
304 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
305 at installation time.
306
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307HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
308 with the $config_file variable.
309
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310JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
311 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
312 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
313 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 314 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 315
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316GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
317 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
318 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
319 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
320 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
321
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322JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
323
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324JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
325 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
326 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
327 list order is no longer honoured.
328
4c04137d 329JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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330 for DKIM processing.
331
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332JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
333 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 334
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335JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
336 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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337 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
338 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 339
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340JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
341 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
342
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343JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
344 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
345
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346JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
347 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
348
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349JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
350
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351JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
352 cached by the daemon.
353
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354JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
355 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
356
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357JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
358 keys are given for lookup.
359
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360JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
361 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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362 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
363 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 364
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365JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
366 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
367 server-side so match that on older versions.
368
07c73177 369JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 370 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 371 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 372
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373JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
374 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
375
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376JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
377 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
378 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 379 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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380 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
381 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
382 initial truncated version.
383
ab9152ff 384JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 385
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386JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
387
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388JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
389 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
390
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391JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
392
bc3c7bb7 393HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 394
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395JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
396 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
397 induced overflows.
398
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399JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
400 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
401 stage.
402
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403JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
404 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
405
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406JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
407 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
408 former class.
409
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410JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
411 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
412 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
413
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414JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
415 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
416 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
417 extraction. Accept either.
418
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423JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
424 expanded.
425
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426JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
427
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428JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
429 it.
430
01a4a5c5 431JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 432 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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433 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
434 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
435
cb1d7830 436JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 437 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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438 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
439
610ff438 440JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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441 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
442 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
443 TLS connections
610ff438 444
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445JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
446 sites use this now.
447
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448JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
449 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
450 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
451 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
452 have a dsn_lasthop option.
453
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454JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
455 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 456 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 457
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458JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
459
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460JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
461 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
462
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463JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
464 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
465
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466JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
467 /defer_ok option.
468
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469JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
470 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
471
fd4d8871 472JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 473 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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474 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
475
476JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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477 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
478 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 479
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480JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
481 timeout value per server.
482
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483JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
484 now have the list separator specified.
485
8a512ed5 486JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 487 option values.
8a512ed5 488
82c0c8ea 489JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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490 under OpenSSL.
491
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492JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
493
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494JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
495 rather than the verbs used.
496
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497JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
498 from 255 to 1024 chars.
499
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500JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
501
cfab9d68 502HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 503 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 504
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505JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
506 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
507
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508HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
509 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
510
4c04137d 511JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 512
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513JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
514
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515JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
516 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 517 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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518 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
519
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520JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
521
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522JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
523 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
524
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525JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
526 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
527
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528JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
529
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530JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
531
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532JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
533
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534JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
535 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
536
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537JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
538 added for tls authenticator.
539
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540HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
541
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546TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
547 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
548 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
549 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
550 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
551 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
552 the script parsing/test process like normal.
553
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554TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
555 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
556 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
557 function when detected.
558
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559JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
560 cause callback expansion.
561
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562TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
563 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
564 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
565 instead of bool when processing it.
566
0f06b4f2 567JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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568 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
569
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570JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
571
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572JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
573
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574TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
575
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576TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
577 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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579JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
580 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
581 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
582 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 583 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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584 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
585
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586JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
587 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
588 exceeded it.
589
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590JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
591 version 3.3.6 or later.
592
4c04137d 593JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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594 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
595 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 596 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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597 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
598 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
599 option is defined.
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601TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
602 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
603
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604JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
605 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
606 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
607 matches.
608
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609JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
610 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
611 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
612
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613JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
614 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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615
616JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
617 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
618 syntax errors.
619
3394b36a 620JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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621
622JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
623 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
624
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625TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
626 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
627 tarball.
628
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629JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
630
4c04137d 631JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
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632 Bug 1561.
633
634JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
635 output list separator was used.
636
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640TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
641 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
642 return.
1f0ebb98 643
a612424f 644JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 645 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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646
647JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
648
649TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 650 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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655
656TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
657
658 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
659 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
660 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
661 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
662 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
663 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
664
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665TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
666 utilities have not been installed.
667
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668JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
669 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
670
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671TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
672 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
673
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674TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
675 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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676 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
677 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
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679JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
680
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681TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
682 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
683
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684PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
685 not dns_use_dnssec.
686
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687JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
688
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689TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
690 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
691 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
692
8ddef691 693TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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694 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
695 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
696 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
697 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 698 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 699
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700JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
701
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702JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
703 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
704
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705JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
706 failed delivery.
707
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708JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
709
511a6c14 710JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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711
712JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
713 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 714
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715JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
716 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
717
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718TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
719
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720JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
721
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722JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
723 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
724
725 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
726 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
727 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
728
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729TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
730 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
731 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
732 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 733
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734JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
735
8c51eead 736JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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737 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
738 lookup).
8c51eead 739
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740TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
741 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
742 Schlichting.
35aba663 743
fd3b6a4a 744JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 745 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 746
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747TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
748 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
749
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750JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
751
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752TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
753 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
754 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
755
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756JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
757 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
758
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759JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
760 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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761 hosts_request_ocsp.
762
ed3bba5f 763JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 764 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 765 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
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767JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
768
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769TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
770 Christian Aistleitner.
771
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772JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
773
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774TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
775 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
776
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777JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
778 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
779
071c51f7
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780JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
781 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
782
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783TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
784 support and error reporting did not work properly.
785
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786TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
787 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
788
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789TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
790 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
791 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
792
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793JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
794
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795PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
796 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
797 Jasper Wallace.
798
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799JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
800
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801TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
802 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
803 CVE-2014-2972
804
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809PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
810
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811PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
812 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
813
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814PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
815 by GnuTLS.
816
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817PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
818 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
819 routines.
820
13363eba 821PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 822
66645890 823PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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824 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
825 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
826 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
827 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 828
a3fb9793 829PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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830 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
831 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
832 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 833 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 834 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 835
d27f98fe 836TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 837
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838TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
839
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840TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
841 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
842
ae0e32ee 843TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 844 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 845 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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847TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
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849TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
850
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851TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
852 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
853
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854JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
855
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856JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
857
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858PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
859
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860NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
861 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
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585121e2 863JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
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865PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
866 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
867 function.
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869PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
870 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
871
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872JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
873 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
874 "acl = name arg..."
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876JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
877
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878JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
879
ea722490 880JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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881 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
882
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883JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
884 Bugzilla 884.
885
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886JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
887 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
888
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889JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
890 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
891
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892PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
893 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 894 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
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896JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
897 authenticators.
898
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899JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
900 for control.
901
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902PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
903
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904PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
905 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
906 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
907 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
908
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909TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
910
911 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
912 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
913 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
914 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
915 the retry rules.
916
917 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
918 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
919 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
920
921 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
922 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
923 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
924 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
925
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926 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
927 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
928 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
929 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
930 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
931 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
932 delivery, as in LMTP.
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934 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
935 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
936
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937TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
938
939 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
940
941 Resent-From: f
942
943 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
944 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
945 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
946 username as equal to the username.
947
948 This change corrects that bug.
949
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950GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
951 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
952 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
953
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954TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
955
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PP
956PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
957 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
958 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
959 NULL dereference and crash.
960
94eaf700
PP
961JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
962
6f5a440a
PP
963PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
964 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
965 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
966
514ee161
SC
967SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
968
fd98a5c6
JH
969JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
970 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
971 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
972 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
973 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
974 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
975 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 976 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
977 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
978 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
979 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
980
035c7f1e
PP
981PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
982 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
983
ff284120
PP
984PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
985 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
986 Bugzilla 880.
987
26e72755
PP
988PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
989 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
990 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
991 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
992 an empty string is now equivalent.
993
0fbd9bff
PP
994PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
995 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
996 not performing validation itself.
997
700d22f3
PP
998PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
999 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1000
fcc8e047
JH
1001JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1002 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1003
4c04137d 1004TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1005
8c020188
PP
1006PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1007 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1008 other false fix of the same issue.
1009 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1010 Bugzilla 1363.
1011
d13cdd30
PP
1012PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1013 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1014
e2fbf4a2
PP
1015PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1016 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1017 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1018
f4c1088b
PP
1019PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1020 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1021 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1022
c5c2182f
PP
1023TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1024
73431ca9
JH
1025JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1026
2d07a215
TL
1027TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1028 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1029
a30a8861
TL
1030TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1031 Alexander Miroch.
1032
33382dd9
TL
1033TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1034 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1035 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1036 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1037 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1038
046172e6
TL
1039TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1040 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1041
581d7bee 1042TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1043 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1044 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1045
1046TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1047 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1048 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1049 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1050
237b2cf2
TL
1051TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1052
9fc5a352
TL
1053TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1054 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1055 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1056
b10e4ec2
TL
1057TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1058
e2cebd74
TL
1059TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1060 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1061 interaction.
1062
1063TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1064 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1065
2519e60d
TL
1066TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1067 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1068
e78e6ecf 1069
4263f395
PP
1070Exim version 4.80.1
1071-------------------
1072
1073PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1074 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1075 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1076
ea722490 1077
b1770b6e 1078Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1079-----------------
1080
1081PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1082 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1083 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1084
23c7e742
NM
1085NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1086
b322aac8
NM
1087NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1088 improved.
1089
4a891427
NM
1090NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1091
c1e794ba 1092PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1093
97753960
PP
1094PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1095
1096PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1097 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1098
df6303fa
PP
1099PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1100 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1101
7e6a8985
PP
1102PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1103 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1104
f1e05cc7 1105PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1106 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1107 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1108
4c287009
PP
1109PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1110
b98bb9ac
PP
1111PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1112 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1113
4a6a987a
PP
1114PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1115
c45dd180 1116PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1117
7db8d074
PP
1118PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1119 non-compliant senders.
1120 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1121
eae0036b 1122NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1123 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1124 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1125
dec5017e
PP
1126PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1127 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1128 in spool file corruption.
1129
c80c5570
PP
1130PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1131 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1132 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1133 "Got SSL error 2".
1134
076b11e2
PP
1135TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1136 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1137 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1138
5407bfff
JH
1139JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1140 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1141
9e45c72b
PP
1142JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1143
e74376d8
PP
1144PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1145 diagnostics.
1146 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1147
4c04137d 1148PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1149 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1150 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1151
7be682ca
PP
1152PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1153 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1154 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1155 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1156
ef840681
PP
1157PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1158 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1159
5bfb4cdf
PP
1160PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1161 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1162 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1163 resolver implementation change.
1164
c6e95d22
PP
1165PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1166 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1167
9cbad13b
PP
1168PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1169
9ee44efb
PP
1170PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1171
6a6084f8
PP
1172PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1173 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1174
12dd53c7
PP
1175PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1176 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1177
9e45c72b 1178JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1179 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1180
17c76198
PP
1181PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1182 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1183 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1184 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1185 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1186
53947857 1187PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1188
eae0036b 1189PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1190 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1191 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1192
9e45c72b 1193JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1194
7390e768
PP
1195PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1196 read-only, out of scope).
1197 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1198
08488c86
PP
1199PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1200 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1201 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1202 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1203
6475bd82
PP
1204PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1205
81f91683
PP
1206PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1207 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1208 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1209 real issues in debug logging.
1210
5779e6aa
PP
1211PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1212 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1213
3375e053
PP
1214PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1215 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1216 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1217
1218PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1219 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1220 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1221 problems.
3375e053 1222
9d26b8c0
PP
1223PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1224 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1225
57eb9e91 1226PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1227 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1228 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1229 needs to override this, it can.
1230
16880d1a
PP
1231PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1232 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1233 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1234
a799883d
PP
1235PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1236 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1237 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1238 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1239
3ecab157 1240PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1241
0599f9cf 1242
867fcbf5
PP
1243Exim version 4.77
1244-----------------
1245
1246PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1247 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1248
f1a29782
TF
1249TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1250
ab42bd23
TK
1251TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1252 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1253
0ca0cf52
TF
1254TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1255 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1256
921b12ca
TF
1257TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1258 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1259 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1260
1261 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1262 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1263 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1264 not safe for signals.
1265
1266 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1267 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1268 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1269 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1270 exiwhat.
1271
c99ce5c9
TF
1272TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1273
1274 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1275 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1276 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1277 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1278 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1279
1280 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1281 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1282 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1283 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1284 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1285 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1286
1287 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1288 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1289 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1290 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1291
1292 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1293 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1294 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1295 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1296
1297 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1298 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1299 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1300 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1301 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1302 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1303 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1304 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1305 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1306
1307 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1308 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1309 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1310 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1311
1312 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1313 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1314 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1315 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1316 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1317 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1318 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1319 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1320 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1321 details in the main documentation.
1322
3634fc25
TF
1323TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1324
792e8a19
TF
1325TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1326
5901f0ab
TF
1327TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1328 repository when doing development or release builds.
1329
7f2a2a43
PP
1330PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1331 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1332
061b7ebd
PP
1333PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1334 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1335 Bugzilla 97.
1336
e12f8c32
PP
1337PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1338
9e949f00 1339PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1340 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1341
1342PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1343 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1344
555ae6af 1345PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1346 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1347
1348PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1349 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1350
6f7fe114
PP
1351PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1352 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1353
c566dd90
PP
1354PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1355 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1356 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1357 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1358
d6cc7c78 1359PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1360 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1361 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1362
0d0e4455
PP
1363PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1364
3399bb60 1365PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1366
1367PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1368 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1369
0ca0cf52 1370
10906672
PP
1371Exim version 4.76
1372-----------------
1373
1374PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1375
754a0503
PP
1376PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1377 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1378
c0c7b2da
PP
1379PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1380
e97d1f08
PP
1381PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1382
084c1d8c
PP
1383PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1384 Bugzilla 1098.
1385
4e7ee012
PP
1386PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1387 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1388
c8d52a00
PP
1389TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1390 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1391
54e7ce4a
PP
1392PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1393 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1394
5ee6f336
PP
1395PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1396 Bugzilla 1104.
1397
c8d52a00 1398TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1399 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1400
1401TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1402 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1403 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1404 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1405
1406PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1407 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1408
10906672 1409
aa097c4c
NM
1410Exim version 4.75
1411-----------------
1412
4c04137d 1413NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1414 Bugzilla 1073
1415
7f3d9eff
TF
1416TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1417 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1418 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1419
159f52d2
TF
1420TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1421 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1422
0cc9542a
PP
1423PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1424 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1425 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1426
f7274286
PP
1427PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1428 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1429
7b797365
PP
1430PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1431 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1432
caacae52
NM
1433NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1434 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1435
09dcaba9
NM
1436NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1437 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1438
bc19a55b
PP
1439PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1440 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1441
bd4c9759
NM
1442NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1443 Fixes bug 943.
1444
b72aab72
PP
1445PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1446 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1447
2fe76745
PP
1448PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1449 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1450
76aa570c
PP
1451PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1452 SQL string expansion failure details.
1453 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1454
f1e5fef5
PP
1455PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1456 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1457
4d805ee9
PP
1458PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1459 extern declarations in function scope.
1460 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1461
cd59ab18
PP
1462PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1463 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1464 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1465 a kernel bug).
1466
332f5cf3
PP
1467PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1468 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1469
29cfeb94
PP
1470PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1471 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1472
660242ad
PP
1473PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1474 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1475
bc4bc4c5
PP
1476PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1477 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1478
2e64baa9
NM
1479NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1480 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1481 Dennis Davis.
1482
4c04137d 1483PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 1484
6bac1a9a
PP
1485PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1486
552193f0
NM
1487NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1488 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1489
1b587e48
TF
1490TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1491 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1492
aa097c4c 1493
8c07b69f
TF
1494Exim version 4.74
1495-----------------
1496
1497TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1498 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1499
c0ea85ab
TF
1500TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1501 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1502
0761d44e
TF
1503TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1504
0a349494
PP
1505DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1506 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1507 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1508
1509PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1510 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1511 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1512
fea24b2e
PP
1513PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1514 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1515 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1516 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1517
6545de78
PP
1518PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1519 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1520 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1521 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1522
1670ef10
PP
1523PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1524 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1525 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1526 arbitrary files.
1527
c0886197
PP
1528PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1529 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1530
b7487bce
PP
1531PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1532 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1533 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1534 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1535 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1536
8c07b69f 1537
97fd1e48 1538Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1539-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1540
1541PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1542 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1543 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1544
6901c596
PP
1545PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1546 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1547
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1548JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1549
77bb000f
PP
1550PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1551
a29e5231
PP
1552PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1553
ec5a0394 1554PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1555
55c75993
PP
1556PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1557
453a6645 1558PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1559 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1560 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1561 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1562
8544e77a
PP
1563PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1564 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1565 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1566 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1567 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1568
83e029d5
PP
1569PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1570
ed7f7860
PP
1571PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1572
7d9f747b
PP
1573PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1574
4b2241d2
PP
1575PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1576
10385c15
PP
1577PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1578
dbc4b90d
PP
1579PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1580
532be449
PP
1581PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1582
6a8de854 1583PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1584 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1585 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1586
5dc43717
JJ
1587JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1588
1589JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1590 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1591
3346ab01
PP
1592PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1593 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1594
491fab4c
PP
1595PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1596 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1597 Notification from John Horne.
1598
13eb9497
PP
1599PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1600 compatible.
1601
1602PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1603 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1604 it normally works.
1605
7f36d675
DW
1606DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1607 access.
1608
c1d94452
DW
1609DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1610 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1611 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1612
e2f5dc15
DW
1613DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1614 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1615 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1616 configuration file.
1617
cd25e41d
DW
1618DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1619 option (effectively making it always true).
1620
261dc43e
DW
1621DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1622 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1623
fa32850b
DW
1624DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1625 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1626
79d4bc3d
PP
1627PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1628 run-time user, instead of root.
1629
43236f35 1630PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1631 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1632
fb08281f
DW
1633DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1634 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1635 arguments.
3346ab01 1636
74935b98
DW
1637DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1638 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1639 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1640
90b6341f
DW
1641DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1642
57730b52
ML
1643NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1644
66581d1e 1645
465e92cf
JJ
1646Exim version 4.72
1647-----------------
1648
453a6645
PP
1649JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1650 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1651 typos
465e92cf 1652
453a6645
PP
1653JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1654 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1655 (Finput)
edae0343 1656
9bd3e22c
NM
1657NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1658 Patch from Alain Williams
1659
bb576ff7
NM
1660NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1661
5a1a5845
NM
1662NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1663 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1664
981a9fad
NM
1665NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1666 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1667
7fc497ee
NM
1668NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1669
1a41defa
JJ
1670JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1671
a466095c 1672NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1673 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1674
94a6bd0b
NM
1675TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1676
1677TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1678
1679MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1680 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1681 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1682
c1b141a8
NM
1683NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1684 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1685
b26eacf1 1686NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1687 Patch by Simon Arlott
1688
179c5980 1689PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1690 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1691
9bd3e22c 1692
7c6d71af
NM
1693Exim version 4.71
1694-----------------
1695
7d9f747b 1696TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1697
f013fb92
NM
1698NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1699
0eb8eedd
NM
1700NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1701
663ee6d9
NM
1702NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1703
177ebd9b
NM
1704NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1705
7c6d71af 1706
210f147e
NM
1707Exim version 4.70
1708-----------------
1709
cdd3bb85 1710TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1711 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1712
1713TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1714 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1715 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1716
1717TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1718 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1719 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1720
1721TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1722 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1723
210f147e
NM
1724NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1725 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1726 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1727 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1728
deafd5b3
NM
1729NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1730 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1731 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1732
089793a4
TF
1733TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1734
5f16ca82
TF
1735TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1736
dae9d94e 1737NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1738 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1739
7d9f747b 1740NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1741
06864c44
TF
1742TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1743 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1744 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1745 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1746
65a7d8c3 1747NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1748 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1749
23510047 1750TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1751
7d9f747b 1752NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1753
7d8eec3a 1754NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1755 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1756
89dec7b6
TF
1757TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1758 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1759
a99de90c
TF
1760TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1761 that they are available at delivery time.
1762
e2803e40
TF
1763TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1764
7199e1ee
TF
1765TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1766 incoming_port log selectors.
1767
e276e04b
TF
1768TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1769 setting expands to an empty string.
1770
ce552449 1771NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1772 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1773
e765a0f1 1774NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1775 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1776
4f054c63 1777NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1778 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1779
7d9f747b
PP
1780NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1781 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1782
7d9f747b
PP
1783NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1784 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1785
b52bc06e 1786NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1787 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1788
447de4b0
NM
1789NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1790
4c69d561 1791NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1792 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1793
d5c39246 1794NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1795 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1796
0b23848a
TK
1797TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1798
8f3414a1 1799NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1800 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1801
fb6f955d
NM
1802NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1803
1804NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1805
7d9f747b
PP
1806NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1807 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1808
7d9f747b
PP
1809NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1810 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1811
7d9f747b
PP
1812NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1813 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1814
7d9f747b
PP
1815NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1816 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1817
7d9f747b
PP
1818NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1819 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1820
7d9f747b
PP
1821NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1822 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1823
7d9f747b
PP
1824NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1825 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1826
7d9f747b 1827NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1828 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1829
7d9f747b 1830NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1831
7d9f747b
PP
1832NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1833 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1834
7d9f747b 1835NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1836
7d9f747b 1837NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1838
7d9f747b 1839NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1840
7d9f747b 1841NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1842
17792b53 1843NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1844 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1845
7d9f747b
PP
1846NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1847 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1848
91576cec 1849NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1850 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1851
7d9f747b
PP
1852NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1853 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1854
7d9f747b 1855NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1856
7d9f747b 1857NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1858
7d9f747b 1859NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1860
7d9f747b 1861NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1862
deafd5b3 1863
47db1125
NM
1864Exim version 4.69
1865-----------------
1866
4b3504d0
TK
1867TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1868 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1869 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1870
1871 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1872 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1873 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1874 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1875 build errors in sieve.c.
1876
81ea09ca
NM
1877NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1878 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1879 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1880
f13cddcb
SC
1881SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1882
7d9f747b 1883NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1884
7d9f747b 1885NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1886
7d9f747b 1887NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1888
1889
eb4c0de6
PH
1890Exim version 4.68
1891-----------------
1892
1893PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1894
6a3bceb1
PH
1895PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1896 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1897 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1898 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1899 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1900 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1901 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1902 for iplsearch lookups.
1903
1904 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1905 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1906 previously such lookups could never work.
1907
4c04137d 1908 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
1909 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1910 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1911
2e30fa9d
TK
1912TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1913 version.
1914
0806a9c5
MH
1915MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1916 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1917 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1918 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1919 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1920 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1921
ae276964
TK
1922TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1923 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1924
0f2cbd1b
MH
1925MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1926 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1927 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1928 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1929 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1930 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1931
2b85bce7
PH
1932PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1933 local_scan API.
1934
93655c46
PH
1935PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1936
6c512171
PH
1937PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1938 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1939 encrypted.
1940
1941PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1942 by clients under certain conditions.
1943
aa6dc513
PH
1944PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1945 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1946
a96603a0
PH
1947PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1948
8f240103
PH
1949PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1950 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1951
1952PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1953
d677b2f2
PH
1954PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1955
d52120f2
PH
1956PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1957
64f2600a
PH
1958PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1959 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1960
8669f003
PH
1961PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1962
a4dc33a8
PH
1963PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1964 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1965
d6a60c0f
PH
1966PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1967
8f128379
PH
1968PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1969
8932dffe
PH
1970PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1971 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1972 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1973 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1974
ddea74fa 1975PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1976 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1977 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1978
ddea74fa 1979PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1980 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1981
ddea74fa
PH
1982PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1983
ce9f225c
PH
1984PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1985
19897d52
PH
1986PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1987
bc64a74d
PH
1988PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1989 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1990 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1991
eb4c0de6 1992
b4ed4da0
PH
1993Exim version 4.67
1994-----------------
1995
22ad45c9
MH
1996MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1997 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1998 Jan Srzednicki.
1999
b4ed4da0
PH
2000PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2001 issue a MAIL command.
2002
431b7361
PH
2003PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2004
2005 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2006
2007 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2008 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2009 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2010 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2011 item. This has been fixed.
2012
2013PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2014 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2015
83da1223
PH
2016PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2017 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2018
54fc8428
PH
2019PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2020 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2021 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2022
34c5e8dd
SC
2023SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2024
bbe15da8
PH
2025PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2026 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2027 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2028 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2029 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2030
0e8a9471
MH
2031MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2032 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2033 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2034
f0872424
PH
2035PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2036 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2037 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2038 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2039
b01dd148
PH
2040PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2041
6bf342e1
PH
2042PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2043
273f34d0
PH
2044PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2045 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2046 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2047 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2048 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2049
cf8b11a5
PH
2050PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2051
41c7c167
PH
2052PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2053 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2054 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2055 values).
2056
9c57cbc0
PH
2057PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2058
f3f065bb
PH
2059PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2060
047bdd8c
PH
2061PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2062
0ce9abe6
PH
2063PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2064
0e22dfd1
PH
2065PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2066
4c590bd1
PH
2067PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2068 no_callout_flush is set.
2069
09945f1e
PH
2070PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2071 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2072 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2073 fixed.
2074
c51b8e75
PH
2075PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2076
e28326d8 2077PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2078 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2079 other ACL rejections are.
2080
75b1493f
PH
2081PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2082 with slight modification.
2083
7c5214ec
PH
2084PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2085 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2086
4311097e
PH
2087PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2088 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2089 connection.
2090
29f89cad
PH
2091PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2092 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2093
5e687460
SC
2094SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2095
c3611384
PH
2096PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2097 expansion side effects.
2098
5a11a7b4
PH
2099PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2100 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2101 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2102 be the same.
2103
0e20aff9
MH
2104MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2105 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2106 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2107
ca86f471
PH
2108PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2109 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2110 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2111 were accidentally chopped off.
2112
a14e5636
PH
2113PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2114 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2115 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2116 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2117 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2118 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2119 pipelining has not been advertised.
2120
ec95d1a6
PH
2121PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2122
42855d71
PH
2123PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2124 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2125 This has been fixed.
2126
57c2c631
PH
2127PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2128 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2129 reported on Solaris.
2130
58c01c94
PH
2131PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2132 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2133 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2134 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2135 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2136 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2137 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2138
dee5a20a
PH
2139PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2140 cpus.
2141
d2ee6114
PH
2142PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2143
b2d5182b
PH
2144PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2145
79749a79
PH
2146PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2147 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2148 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2149 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2150 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2151 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2152
c456d9bb
PH
2153PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2154 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2155 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2156 host_all_ignored option.
2157
cd9868ec
PH
2158PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2159 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2160 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2161 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2162 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2163 is what is supposed to happen).
2164
ebeaf996
PH
2165PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2166 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2167 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2168 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2169 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2170 uses the Exim user.
2171
2679d413
PH
2172PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2173 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2174 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2175 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2176 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2177 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2178 users.
2179
84024b72
PH
2180PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2181
8005d38e
SC
2182SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2183 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2184 (Jez Hancock).
2185 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2186 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2187
3298c6c6
SC
2188SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2189
a43a27c5
PH
2190PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2191
58eb016e 2192PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2193 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2194 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2195 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2196 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2197 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2198 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2199 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2200 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2201 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2202 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2203
b43a74ea
PH
2204PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2205 advertised in response to EHLO.
2206
b4ed4da0 2207
5dd1517f
PH
2208Exim version 4.66
2209-----------------
2210
2211PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2212 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2213
2214 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2215 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2216
2217 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2218 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2219 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2220
2221 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2222 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2223 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2224 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2225 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2226
2227
93cfa765
TK
2228Exim version 4.65
2229-----------------
2230
2231TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2232 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2233 versions. (#438)
2234
d6066548
MH
2235MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2236 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2237 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2238
4362ff0d
PH
2239PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2240 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2241 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2242 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2243 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2244 rather than extend the field.
2245
93cfa765 2246
944e9e9c
TF
2247Exim version 4.64
2248-----------------
aa41d2de 2249
21d74bd9
TK
2250TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2251 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2252 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2253 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2254 these files.
2255
2256TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2257 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2258 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2259
2260TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2261 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2262 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2263
2264TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2265 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2266 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2267 in the field name.
2268
2b1c6e3a
PH
2269PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2270 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2271 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2272 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2273 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2274 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2275 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2276 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2277 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2278 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2279 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2280
1f872c80
PH
2281PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2282 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2283
2284PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2285 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2286 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2287 ignores EPIPE as well.
2288
d203e649
PH
2289PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2290 (quoted-printable decoding).
2291
cc2ed8f7 2292PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2293 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2294
ddfcd446
PH
2295PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2296
d45b1de8
PH
2297PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2298
2299PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2300
38a0a95f 2301PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2302 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2303
a2405d83
JJ
2304JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2305 in 4.64-PH/09.
2306
2307JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2308 miscellaneous code fixes
2309
6ea85e9a
PH
2310PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2311 rejections.
2312
26da7e20
PH
2313PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2314 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2315 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2316 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2317 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2318 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2319 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2320 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2321
14aa5a05 2322PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2323 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2324 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2325 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2326 function.
2327 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2328 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2329 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2330 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2331 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2332 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2333 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2334 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2335 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2336
ff75a1f7
PH
2337PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2338 decoding.
2339
e6f6568e
PH
2340PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2341 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2342 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2343 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2344 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2345 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2346 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2347 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2348
d6f6e0dc
PH
2349PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2350 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2351 list.
2352
322050c2
PH
2353PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2354 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2355 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2356 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2357 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2358 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2359 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2360 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2361 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2362 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2363 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2364 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2365 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2366
08955dd3
PH
2367PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2368 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2369 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2370 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2371 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2372 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2373 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2374
1eccaa59
PH
2375PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2376 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2377 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2378 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2379 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2380 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2381 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2382 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2383 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2384 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2385
602e59e5
PH
2386PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2387 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2388 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2389 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2390 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2391
411ef850
PH
2392PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2393 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2394 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2395 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2396 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2397 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2398 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2399
7befa435
PH
2400PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2401 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2402 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2403 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2404 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2405 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2406 been verified.
2407
48da4259 2408PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2409 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2410 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2411 and authorization.)
2412
48da4259
PH
2413PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2414 if any retry times were supplied.
2415
d1d5595c
PH
2416PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2417 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2418 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2419
0ef732d9
PH
2420PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2421
328895cc
PH
2422PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2423
fd700877
PH
2424PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2425 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2426 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2427 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2428 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2429 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2430
8dce1a6f
PH
2431PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2432 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2433
17af4a17
PH
2434PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2435 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2436 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2437
2438PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2439 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2440 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2441 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2442 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2443 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2444 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2445 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2446 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2447
2448 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2449 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2450 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2451 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2452 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2453 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2454 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2455 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2456 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2457
2458 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2459 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2460 hammering the server.
2461
c1114884
PH
2462PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2463 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2464
7a0743eb
PH
2465PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2466
0d85fa3f
PH
2467PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2468 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2469 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2470
1bf43b78
PH
2471PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2472 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2473 one case where this was not true.
2474
520de300
PH
2475PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2476 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2477 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2478 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2479 fails.
2480
48c7f9e2
PH
2481PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2482 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2483 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2484 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 2485 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
2486 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2487 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2488 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2489 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2490 smtp transport.
2491
99ea1c86
PH
2492PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2493 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2494 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2495 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2496
a2042e78
PH
2497PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2498 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2499
4fbcfc2e
PH
2500PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2501 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2502 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2503
aa41d2de
PH
2504PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2505
af561417
PH
2506PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2507
3cc66b45
PH
2508PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2509
194cc0e4
PH
2510PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2511 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2512 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2513 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2514
a401ddaa
PH
2515PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2516 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2517
4e88a19f
PH
2518PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2519 be meaningful with "accept".
2520
d7d7b289
SC
2521SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2522 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2523
2524SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2525 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2526 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2527
2528SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2529 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2530 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2531 there is data to show.
2532 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2533
2534SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2535 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2536 as well as the number of messages.
2537
2538SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2539 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2540 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2541
2542SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2543 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2544 have a flag are now skipped.
2545
2546SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2547 Added the -emptyok flag.
2548
2549SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2550 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2551
0ea2a468
JJ
2552JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2553 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 2554 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
2555
2556JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2557 match 4.64-PH/13
2558
2559JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2560 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2561
2562JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2563
2564JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2565 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2566
8a10f5a4
PH
2567PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2568
30e18802
PH
2569PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2570 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2571 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2572 contravention of the specifications.
2573
55728a4f
PH
2574PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2575 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2576 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2577
d7837193
PH
2578PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2579 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2580 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2581
87054a31
PH
2582PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2583
ea2c01d2
MH
2584MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2585 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2586 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2587 some point in the past.
2588
e4fa6968
PH
2589PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2590 transport during callout processing was broken.
2591
56f5d9bd
PH
2592PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2593 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2594
922e1c28
PH
2595PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2596 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2597
21eb6e72
PH
2598PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2599 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2600
a0540757
PH
2601PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2602
944e9e9c 2603
478be7b0
SC
2604Exim version 4.63
2605-----------------
2606
2607SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2608 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2609
2610SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2611 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2612 there is data to show.
2613 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2614
2615SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2616 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2617
2b965a65
TF
2618TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2619 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2620
45b91596
PH
2621TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2622 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2623
c59f5781
TF
2624TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2625 submissions from trusted users.
2626
90fc3069
TF
2627TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2628 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2629
6083aca0
TF
2630TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2631 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2632 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2633 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2634 there is now a framework to start from.
2635
765b530f
PH
2636PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2637 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2638 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2639
4e167a8c
PH
2640PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2641
4608d683
PH
2642PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2643
b8dc3e4a
PH
2644PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2645
5418e93b
PH
2646PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2647 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2648 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2649
b4a9bda2
PH
2650PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2651 libradius.
2652
45b91596
PH
2653PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2654 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2655 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2656
5547e2c5
PH
2657PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2658 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2659 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2660 its arguments.
2661
dbcef0ea
PH
2662PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2663 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2664 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2665 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2666 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2667
25257489
PH
2668PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2669 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2670
c816d124
PH
2671PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2672
a9ccd69a
PH
2673PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2674 operations in malware.c.
2675
75fa1910
PH
2676PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2677 signatures.
2678
a7d7aa58
PH
2679PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2680 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2681 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2682 all.
2683
42119b09
PH
2684PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2685 statements to "add_header".
2686
41609df5
PH
2687PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2688 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2689
a5bd321b
PH
2690PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2691 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2692 latter.
2693
e85a7ad5 2694PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2695 so that it is now:
2696
e85a7ad5
PH
2697 ${if or { \
2698 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2699 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2700 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2701 }{no}{yes}}
2702
e85a7ad5
PH
2703 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2704 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2705
d8fe1c03
PH
2706PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2707 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2708
16282d2b
PH
2709PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2710 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2711 any possible encoding problems.
2712
35d40a98
PH
2713PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2714 but not after initializing Perl.
2715
034d99ab
PH
2716PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2717 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2718 apparently, which is not desirable.
2719
6ec97b1b
PH
2720PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2721 queries.
2722
e22ca4ac
JJ
2723JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2724 --not options
2725
2726JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2727
33d73e3b
PH
2728PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2729 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2730 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2731 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2732
9ecb03f3
PH
2733PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2734 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2735 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2736
084efe8d
PH
2737PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2738 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2739 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2740 0.12.
2741
366fc9f0
PH
2742PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2743 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2744 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2745 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2746 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2747
c59f5781 2748
c887c79e
TF
2749Exim version 4.62
2750-----------------
2751
2752TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2753 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2754
1cce3af8
PH
2755PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2756 patch).
2757
afb3eaaf
PH
2758PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2759 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2760 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2761 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2762 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2763 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2764 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2765 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2766 451 error is used.
2767
e173618b
PH
2768PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2769
dd16e114
PH
2770PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2771 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2772 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2773
f7fd3850
PH
2774PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2775 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2776 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2777 odd errors.
2778
d87df92c
PH
2779PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2780 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2781
7e9f683d
PH
2782PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2783 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2784 option (which defaults to 0600).
2785
bfad5236
PH
2786PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2787
01c490df
PH
2788PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2789 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2790 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2791 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2792 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2793 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2794 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2795
d6629cdc
PH
2796PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2797
1cce3af8 2798
214e2000
PH
2799Exim version 4.61
2800-----------------
2801
2802PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2803 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2804 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2805 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2806 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2807 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2808 addresses as local.
2809
f9daeae0
PH
2810PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2811 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2812
7e66e54d
PH
2813PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2814
c8ea1597
PH
2815PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2816 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2817 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2818 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2819 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2820 grumble.
2821
911f6fde
PH
2822PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2823 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2824
47ca6d6c
PH
2825PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2826 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2827 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2828 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2829 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2830
ed0e9820
PH
2831PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2832 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2833 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2834 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2835
eff37e47
PH
2836PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2837 be the same on different OS.
2838
1921d2ea
PH
2839PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2840 testing.
2841
b3f69ca8
JJ
2842JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2843 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2844
2845JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2846 in 4.61-PH/06
2847
424a1c63
PH
2848PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2849 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2850 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2851 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2852 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2853 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2854 bounce message.
2855
7a100415
PH
2856PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2857 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2858 when Exim was called.
2859
19b9dc85
PH
2860PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2861 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2862
309bd837
PH
2863PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2864 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2865 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2866 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2867
59e82a2a
PH
2868PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2869 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2870 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2871 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2872 changes:
2873
2874 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2875 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 2876 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
2877
2878 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2879 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2880 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2881
9edc04ce
PH
2882PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2883 feature).
2884
1349e1e5
PH
2885PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2886 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2887 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2888 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2889 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2890 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2891 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2892 values from the SRV records were lost.
2893
ea49d0e1
PH
2894PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2895 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2896 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2897
064a94c9
PH
2898PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2899 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2900 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2901
727071f8
PH
2902PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2903 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2904 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2905 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2906 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2907 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2908 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2909 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2910 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2911 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2912
f78eb7c6
PH
2913PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2914 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2915 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2916
21c28500
PH
2917PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2918 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2919
2920PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2921 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2922 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2923 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2924 is given.
2925
1688f43b
PH
2926PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2927 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2928 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2929
2930PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2931 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2932 PH/23 above applies.
2933
9675b384
PH
2934PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2935 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2936 (for which there is an explicit test).
2937
6a3f1455
PH
2938PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2939
dac79d3e
PH
2940PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2941 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2942 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2943 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2944 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2945
5977a0b3
PH
2946PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2947 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2948 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2949 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2950
c91535f3
PH
2951PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2952 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2953 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2954
0d46a8c8
PH
2955PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2956
278c6e6c
PH
2957PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2958
2cbb4081
PH
2959PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2960 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2961 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2962
3eef829e
PH
2963PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2964 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2965 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2966 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2967 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2968
1ab95fa6
PH
2969PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2970 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2971 the message gets confusing).
2972
230205fc
PH
2973PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2974 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2975 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2976 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2977
75e0e026
PH
2978PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2979 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2980 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2981 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2982 same order.
2983
2984PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2985 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2986 the different processes.
2987
145396a6
PH
2988PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2989
3cd34f13
PH
2990PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2991
11121d3d
JJ
2992JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2993 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2994
2995JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2996 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2997
2998JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2999 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3000 messages matching specified criteria.
3001
8def5aaf
PH
3002PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3003
929ba01c
PH
3004PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3005 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3006
2632889e
PH
3007PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3008 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3009 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3010 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3011 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3012 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3013 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3014 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3015 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3016 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3017
944a9c55
PH
3018PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3019 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3020 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3021
4a23603b
PH
3022PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3023
4730f942
PH
3024PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3025 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3026 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3027 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3028 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3029 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3030 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3031 the variable.
3032
30dba1e6
PH
3033PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3034 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3035
382afc6b
PH
3036PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3037
a86229cf
PH
3038PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3039
50c99ba6
PH
3040PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3041
d35e429d
PH
3042PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3043 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3044 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3045 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3046 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3047 size of the count of files.
3048
f90d018c
PH
3049PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3050
75def545
PH
3051PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3052 used in LMTP mode:
3053
3054 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3055 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3056 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3057 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3058
3059 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3060 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3061 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3062
3063PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3064 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3065 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3066 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3067 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3068
c46782ef
PH
3069PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3070 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3071
71fafd95
PH
3072PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3073 will now be deprecated.
3074
2c5db4fd
PH
3075PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3076
9cf6b11a
JJ
3077JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3078 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3079 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3080
3081JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3082 with very large, slow to parse queues
3083
3084JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3085
3086JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3087
898d150f
PH
3088PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3089 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3090 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3091 SMTP output lines.
3092
46218253
PH
3093PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3094 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3095 Sieve code now uses this.
3096
e97957bc
PH
3097PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3098 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3099
81e509d7
PH
3100PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3101 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3102
3d240ff7
PH
3103PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3104
b37c4101
PH
3105PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3106 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3107 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3108 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3109 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3110
79378e0f
PH
3111PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3112 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3113 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3114 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3115
e49c7bb4
PH
3116PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3117
d114ec46
PH
3118PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3119
f3d7df6c
PH
3120PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3121 is preferred over IPv4.
3122
715ab376
PH
3123PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3124 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3125 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3126 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3127 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3128 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3129 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3130
6b31b150
PH
3131PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3132 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3133 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3134
3135PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3136
d515a917
PH
3137PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3138 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3139 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3140 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3141 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3142 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3143 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3144 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3145 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3146 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3147 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3148
9b8fadde
PH
3149PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3150 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3151 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3152
214e2000 3153
5de37277
PH
3154Exim version 4.60
3155-----------------
3156
cc38ddbf
PH
3157PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3158
3159 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3160 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3161
3162 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3163 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3164 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3165
72fdd6ae
PH
3166PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3167
3168 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3169 not a single digit.
3170
3171 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3172 string.
3173
3174 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3175 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3176 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3177 silly things.
3178
3179 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3180 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3181
3182 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3183 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3184
cb741023
PH
3185PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3186 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3187 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3188
f174f16e
PH
3189PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3190 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3191
c25242d7
PH
3192PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3193 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3194
3195 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3196
3197 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3198 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3199 this:
3200
3201 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3202
82c19f95
PH
3203PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3204 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3205 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3206 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3207 identical. For example:
3208
3209 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3210
3211 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3212 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3213 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3214
d7ffbc12
PH
3215PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3216 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3217 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3218 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3219
9f526266
PH
3220PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3221 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3222 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3223 message.
3224
87fcc8b9
PH
3225PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3226
3227 o fixes some comments
3228 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3229 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3230 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3231 and documents the missing references header update
3232
3233 and most important:
3234
3235 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3236 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3237 result)
3238
456682f5
PH
3239PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3240 Electronic Mail") by including:
3241
3242 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3243
3244 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3245 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3246 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3247 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3248 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3249
3250 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3251
3252 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3253
3254 The auto-replied keyword:
3255
3256 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3257 message by an automatic process,
3258
3259 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3260
3261 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3262 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3263
3264 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3265 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3266 other messages.
3267
3e46c1aa
PH
3268PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3269 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3270
49826d12
PH
3271PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3272
eba0c039
PH
3273PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3274 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3275 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3276
a0d6ba8a
PH
3277PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3278 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3279 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3280
f0917727
PH
3281PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3282 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3283 and treats the condition as false.
3284
096fee00
PH
3285PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3286
024bd3c2
PH
3287PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3288 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3289 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3290 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3291 not changing the active code.
3292
3293 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3294 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3295
3296 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3297 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3298
df199fec
PH
3299PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3300 (Bugzilla #53).
3301
d27f1df3
PH
3302PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3303 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3304 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3305 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3306 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3307 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3308 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3309 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3310 the text comparison.
3311
96776534
PH
3312PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3313 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3314 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3315 The same fix has been applied.
3316
5de37277 3317
9a799bc0
PH
3318Exim version 4.54
3319-----------------
3320
3321PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3322 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3323 It now does.
3324
99a4b039
PH
3325PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3326 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3327
3328PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3329
4b233853
PH
3330PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3331 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3332 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3333 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3334 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3335
8857ccfd
PH
3336TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3337 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3338 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3339 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3340 or /domain=).
3341
433a2980
PH
3342PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3343 testing suite.
3344
3e46c1aa 3345
9a799bc0 3346
e3a311ba
TK
3347Exim version 4.53
3348-----------------
3349
3350TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3351 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3352
13b685f9
PH
3353PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3354
395ff96d
PH
3355PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3356
5b68f6e4
PH
3357PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3358 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3359 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3360
1ab52c69
PH
3361PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3362 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3363 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3364
b07e6aa3
PH
3365PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3366 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3367 operating systems.
3368
254e032f
PH
3369PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3370 ${stat: expansion item.
3371
3af76a81
PH
3372PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3373 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3374
2548ba04
PH
3375PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3376 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3377 file for comments.
3378
b6c6011d
PH
3379PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3380
cf39cf57
PH
3381PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3382 setting.
3383
f1513293
PH
3384PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3385 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3386
727549a4
PH
3387TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3388
af46795e
PH
3389PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3390 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3391 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3392 the end of the subprocess.
3393
d7b47fd0
PH
3394PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3395 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3396 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3397 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3398 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3399
ee744174
JJ
3400JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3401
b582ab87
PH
3402TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3403
41a13e0a
PH
3404PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3405 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3406
f625cc5a
PH
3407PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3408
3409PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3410
21f7af35
PH
3411PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3412 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3413 HP-UX compiler.
3414
31480e42
PH
3415PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3416
2d280592
PH
3417PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3418 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3419 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3420
7cd1141b
PH
3421PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3422 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3423
3424PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3425 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3426
750af86e
PH
3427PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3428 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3429
3430 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3431 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3432
3433 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3434 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3435 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3436 contributed by a Radius user.
3437
3438PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3439 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3440
4304270b
TK
3441TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3442 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3443
750af86e
PH
3444PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3445 available.
3446
64ffc24f
PH
3447PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3448 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3449 received.
3450
5dd9625b
PH
3451PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3452 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3453 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3454 header lines when this was not necessary.
3455
5591031b
PH
3456PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3457
ba18e66a
PH
3458PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3459 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3460 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3461 exists".
3462
9cec981f
PH
3463PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3464 -bV or -d is used.
3465
aa2b5c79
PH
3466PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3467 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3468 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3469 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3470
48a53b7f
PH
3471PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3472
1c59d63b
PH
3473PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3474
671012da
TK
3475TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3476
1509d3a8
PH
3477PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3478
3479PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3480 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3481 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3482 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3483 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3484 settings.
3485
3486PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3487
2fe1a124
PH
3488PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3489 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3490 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3491 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3492 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3493 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3494 which is clearly wrong.
3495
8800895a
PH
3496PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3497
ccfdb010
PH
3498PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3499 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3500 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3501 subsequently added.
3502
1130bfb0
PH
3503PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3504 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3505
ebcb507f
PH
3506PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3507
c35e155c
PH
3508PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3509 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3510
95d1f782
PH
3511PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3512 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3513
fd6de02e
PH
3514PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3515 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3516
58de37c5
PH
3517PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3518 recipients, not senders.
3519
261cf466
TF
3520TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3521 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3522
3ee512ff
PH
3523PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3524
e08c430f
PH
3525PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3526
bef5a11f
PH
3527PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3528 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3529 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3530 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3531
7546de58
TF
3532TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3533
e5d5a95f
TF
3534TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3535 clock is set back in time.
3536
2e88a017
TF
3537TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3538 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3539
a5f65aa4
TF
3540TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3541 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3542
e7726cbf
PH
3543PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3544 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3545 (see PH/47 above).
3546
a7fdad5b
TF
3547TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3548 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3549 header rewrites.
3550
6af56900
PH
3551PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3552 type ("H").
3553
0925ede6
PH
3554PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3555
66afa403
TF
3556TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3557 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3558 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3559
0154e85a
TF
3560TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3561 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3562 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3563 helo verification defer as a failure.
3564
16f12c76
PH
3565PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3566 actual error message.
3567
bbe902f0 3568
e5a9dba6
PH
3569Exim version 4.52
3570-----------------
3571
3572TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3573
22c3b60b
PH
3574PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3575 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3576 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3577 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3578
06a9b4b5
PH
3579TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3580
c1ac6996
PH
3581PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3582 can still be requested.
3583
9c7a242c
PH
3584PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3585 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3586 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3587 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3588
87ba3f5f
PH
3589TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3590 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3591 circumstances, but probably never did.
3592
3593PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3594 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3595 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3596 in the header line.
3597
29aba418
TF
3598TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3599
fe0dab11
TF
3600TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3601 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3602
11d337a4
TK
3603TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3604
3605TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3606
415c8f3b
PH
3607PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3608 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3609 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 3610 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
3611 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3612 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3613
958541e9
PH
3614PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3615 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3616 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3617 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3618 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3619 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3620
c206415f
TK
3621TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3622 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3623
2a4be8f9
PH
3624PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3625 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3626
1cba11c5
SC
3627SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3628 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3629
4c04137d 3630SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
3631
3632SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3633
3634SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3635
3636SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3637
3638SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3639
3640SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3641
1005d00e
TK
3642TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3643
3644TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3645 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3646 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3647
3648TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3649 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3650 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3651 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3652
9b4768fa
PH
3653PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3654 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3655 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3656
3657PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3658 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3659 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3660 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3661
0d7eb84a
PH
3662PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3663 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3664 to be made).
3665
3666PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3667 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3668 should work with maildirs and everything.
3669
40727bee
TK
3670TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3671 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3672
554d2369
TF
3673TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3674 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3675
1f922db1
PH
3676PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3677 function for BDB 4.3.
3678
ef213c3b
PH
3679PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3680
8ac170f3
PH
3681PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3682 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3683 involved.
3684
b1c749bb
PH
3685PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3686 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3687 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3688 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3689 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3690 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3691
4aac9b49
PH
3692PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3693 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3694 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3695 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3696 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3697 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3698 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3699 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3700
294520c8
TK
3701TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3702 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3703 details.
3704
5bd022fe
PH
3705PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3706 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3707
90e9ce59
PH
3708PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3709 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3710 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3711 test. It is now used for both.
3712
5ea81592
PH
3713PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3714 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3715 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3716 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3717 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3718 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3719
c6c2dc1d
PH
3720PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3721 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3722 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3723 string_vformat().
3724
fffffe4c
PH
3725PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3726 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3727 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3728
9a26b6b2
PH
3729PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3730 experimental DomainKeys support:
3731
3732 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3733 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3734 the control was given.
3735
3736 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3737
4aee0225
PH
3738PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3739
32d668a5
PH
3740PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3741
8187c3f3
PH
3742PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3743 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3744 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3745 db.h files).
3746
ff790e47 3747PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3748 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3749 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3750 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3751 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3752 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3753 course.
ff790e47 3754
5417f6d1
PH
3755PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3756 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3757 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3758 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3759 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3760 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3761
59cf8544
PH
3762PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3763 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3764 do -d+all out of habit.
3765
e7ad8a65
PH
3766PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3767 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3768 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3769
ade42478
PH
3770PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3771 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3772 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3773 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3774 record types that Exim uses.
3775
182ad5cf
PH
3776PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3777 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3778 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3779 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3780 non-existent file that was broken.
3781
b0d9fc80
TK
3782TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3783 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3784
3785TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3786 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3787 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3788
3789TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3790
47c7a64a
PH
3791PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3792 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3793 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3794 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3795 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3796 same time.
3797
a388bce4
SC
3798SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3799 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3800 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3801 at a slight CPU cost.
3802
3803SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3804 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3805
3806SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3807 by Marc Sherman.
3808
0793e4ed
SC
3809SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3810
c58b88df
PH
3811PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3812 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3813
e7ad8a65 3814
7982096b
PH
3815Exim version 4.51
3816-----------------
3817
1a46a8c5
PH
3818TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3819 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3820
2f079f46 3821TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3822
3823TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3824
3825PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3826 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3827
3828PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3829 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3830 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3831 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3832 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3833 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3834 file.
3835
3836PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3837 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3838 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3839 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3840 these two options.
3841
3842PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3843 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3844 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3845 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3846 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3847 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3848 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3849 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3850
3851PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3852 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3853
3854PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3855 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3856 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3857 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3858 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3859 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3860
3861PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3862 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3863 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3864 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3865
3866PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3867 Finch).
3868
3869PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3870 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3871
49c2d5ea
PH
3872PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3873 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3874 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3875 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3876 message.
49c2d5ea 3877
bf759a8b
PH
3878PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3879
83364d30
PH
3880PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3881 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3882
7999bbd7
PH
3883PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3884 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3885 to what was transported.)
3886
7dbf77c9
PH
3887TF/01 Added $received_time.
3888
74e0617f
PH
3889PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3890 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3891 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3892 spamd_address settings.
3893
2f079f46
PH
3894PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3895 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3896 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3897 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3898 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3899
8c841523
PH
3900PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3901
7766a4f0
PH
3902PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3903 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3904 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3905 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3906 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3907
8b417f2c
PH
3908PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3909 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3910
901f42cb
PH
3911PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3912 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3913 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3914 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3915 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3916 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3917 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3918 for failure.
3919
f9b9210e
PH
3920PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3921 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3922 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3923 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3924 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3925 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3926 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3927 "input=".
3928
54cdb463
PH
3929PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3930
cf00dad6
PH
3931PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3932 driver and ACL definitions.
3933
acb1b346
PH
3934PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3935 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3936
c5ddb310
PH
3937PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3938 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3939 understands it better than I do:
3940
3941 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3942 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3943
3944 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3945 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3946 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3947 => three warnings about OTP not working
3948 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3949
3950 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3951 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3952 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3953 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3954 for each call.)
3955 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3956 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3957
3958 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3959 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3960 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3961
31619da6
PH
3962PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3963 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3964 specified.
3965
bebaf0fc
PH
3966PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3967 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3968 "Linux".
3969
475fe28a
PH
3970PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3971 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3972 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3973
3974 warn !verify = sender
3975 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3976
3977 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3978 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3979
7e8bec7a
PH
3980PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3981
3982 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3983 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3984
3985 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3986 nomenclature these days.)
3987
e4a89c47
PH
3988PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3989 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3990
5ca2a9a1
PH
3991PH/30 In these circumstances:
3992 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3993 . First host does not offer TLS;
3994 . First host accepts first address;
3995 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3996 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3997 . Second host accepts second address.
3998 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3999 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4000 address.
7e8bec7a 4001
c688b954
PH
4002PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4003 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4004 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4005 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4006 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4007
fed77020
PH
4008PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4009 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4010
7fe1560f
PH
4011PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4012 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4013
ebb6e6d5
PH
4014PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4015 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4016 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4017
9c4e8f60
PH
4018PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4019 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4020 overlooked.
4021
4022PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4023
d7174846
PH
4024PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4025 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4026 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4027 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4028 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4029 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4030 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4031
4032 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4033 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4034 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4035 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4036 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4037
4038 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4039 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4040 routed further.
4041
cfe75fc3
PH
4042PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4043 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4044 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4045 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4046 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4047 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4048
be22d70e
PH
4049PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4050
0612b098
PH
4051PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4052 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4053 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4054 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4055 printable escape sequences.
4056
2e0c1448
PH
4057PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4058 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4059 body only.
4060
447d236c
PH
4061PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4062 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4063 are as follows:
4064
4065 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4066 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4067 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4068 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4069 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4070
4071 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4072 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4073 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4074
d20976dc
PH
4075PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4076
f656d135
PH
4077PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4078 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4079 play with."
4080
2e2a30b4
PH
4081PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4082 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4083 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4084 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4085 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4086 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4087 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4088 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4089 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4090 the log output.
4091
9176e9f0
PH
4092PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4093 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4094 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4095 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4096 "make".
4097
7982096b 4098
bbe902f0
PH
4099A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4100----------------------------------------
4101
4102Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4103changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4104needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4105in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4106that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4107release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4108from 4.43.
4109
4110I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
41114.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4112those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4113historical information.
4114
4115
f7b63901 4116Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4117-----------------
4118
5fe762f6
PH
4119 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4120
139059f6 4121 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4122 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4123
7086e875
PH
4124 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4125 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4126 place.
4127
35af9f61
PH
4128 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4129 filter fails to execute.
4130
b668c215
PH
4131 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4132 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4133 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4134 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4135 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4136
a494b1e1
PH
4137 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4138
4139 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4140 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4141 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4142 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4143
c5fcb476
PH
4144 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4145 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4146 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4147 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4148 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4149
69358f02
PH
4150 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4151
5be20824
PH
415210. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4153
eb2c0248
PH
415411. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4155 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4156 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4157 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4158
2a3eea10
PH
415912. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4160 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4161 sender verification.
4162
416313. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4164 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4165
23c7ff99
PH
416614. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4167
4deaf07d
PH
416815. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4169 connection timeout.
4170
926e1192
PH
417116. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4172 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4173
650edc6f
PH
417417. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4175 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4176
2c7db3f5
PH
417718. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4178 information about exactly what failed.
4179
3d235903
PH
418019. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4181
7c7ad977
PH
418220. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4183 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4184 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4185
981756db
PH
418621. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4187 It is now set to "smtps".
4188
d4eb88df
PH
418922. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4190 ignore_target_hosts.
4191
419223. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4193 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4194 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4195 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4196 "[x.x.x.x]".
4197
7d468ab8
PH
419824. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4199 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4200 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4201
420225. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4203 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4204 wake it up if nothing else does.
4205
62c0818f
PH
420626. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4207 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4208 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4209 end up negative.
4210
26034054
PH
421127. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4212 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4213
af66f652
PH
421428. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4215
90af77f4
PH
421629. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4217 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4218 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4219 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4220 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4221 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4222 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4223 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4224
d8ef3577
PH
422530. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4226 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4227 than one IP address.
4228
5cb8cbc6
PH
422931. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4230 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4231 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4232 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4233
14702f5b
PH
423432. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4235 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4236 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4237 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4238 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4239 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4240
063b1e99
PH
424133. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4242 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4243 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4244 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4245
652e1b65
PH
424634. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4247 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4248 respected.
4249
6f0c9a4f
PH
425035. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4251 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4252 $sender_host_address.
4253
33397d19
PH
425436. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4255 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4256 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4257 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4258 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4259 very small.
4260
7bb56e1f
PH
426137. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4262
4263 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4264 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4265
ea3bc19b
PH
4266 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4267 just the host names, not the priorities.
4268
4269 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4270 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4271 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4272
ea3bc19b 4273 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4274 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4275
0bcb2a0e
PH
427638. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4277 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4278 domain.
4279
2ac0e484
PH
428039. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4281
4e1fde53
PH
428240. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4283 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4284
de365ded
PH
428541. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4286 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4287 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4288
f05da2e8
PH
428942. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4290
d6453af2
PH
429143. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4292
f7b63901
PH
429344. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4294
429545. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4296 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4297 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4298 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4299 because the tests only now provoked it.
4300
a444213a
PH
430146. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4302 (this can affect the format of dates).
4303
0ec020ea
PH
430447. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4305 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4306 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4307 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4308
b1206957
PH
430948. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4310
431149. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4312 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4313 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4314 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4315
26dd5a95
PH
431650. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4317 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4318 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4319
343b2385
PH
432051. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4321 autoreply.
4322
1c5466b9
PH
432352. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4324 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4325 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4326 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4327 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4328 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4329 is going on).
4330
55ee9ee3
PH
433153. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4332 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4333 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4334 the line.
4335
d38f8232
PH
433654. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4337 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4338 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4339
4340 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4341 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4342 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4343 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4344 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4345 so I produce this patch..."
4346
3295e65b
PH
4347 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4348 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4349 is not defined.
4350
7102e136
PH
435155. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4352 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4353 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4354 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4355 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4356
3ca0ba97
PH
435756. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4358
c2bcbe20
PH
435957. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4360 long debug lines gets shown.
4361
18ce445d
PH
436258. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4363 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4364
1f5b4c3d
PH
436559. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4366
4367 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4368 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4369 of $primary_hostname.
4370
b975ba52
PH
437160. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4372 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4373 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4374 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4375 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4376 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4377 by change 4.50/55 above.
4378
4379 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4380 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4381 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4382 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4383 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4384 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4385 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4386
438761. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4388 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4389 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4390 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4391
17ffcae7
PH
439262. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4393 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4394
d95f9fdb
PH
439563. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4396 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4397 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4398 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4399 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4400
86b8287f
PH
440164. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4402 This has been fixed.
4403
60dc5e56
PH
440465. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4405 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4406 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4407 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4408 the caching.)
4409
533244af
PH
441066. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4411
a5a28604
PH
441267. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4413 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4414 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4415 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4416
7e634d24
PH
441768. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4418 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4419
3e11c26b
PH
442069. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4421 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4422 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4423
6729cf78
PH
442470. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4425 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4426 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4427 message there.
4428
00f00ca5
PH
442971. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4430 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4431 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4432
c9bdd01c
PH
443372. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4434 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4435 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4436 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4437
d43194df
PH
443873. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4439 during host lookups.
4440
fe5b5d0b
PH
444174. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4442 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4443
4444 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4445
76a2d7ba
PH
444675. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4447 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4448 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4449 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4450 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4451 background.
4452
445376. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4454 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4455
04f7d5b9
PH
445677. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4457 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4458 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4459
bc60667e
PH
446078. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4461
bb6e88ff
PH
446279. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4463 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4464 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4465 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4466 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4467 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4468 process earlier.
4469
1e70f85b
PH
447080. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4471 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4472 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4473 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4474 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4475
447681. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4477 tables).
4478
4e01f9d6
PH
447982. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4480
1ee1cef2
PH
448183. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4482 "vacation" handling.
4483
6e2b4ccc
PH
448484. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4485 OS variants using glibc.
4486
8e669ac1
PH
448785. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4488
495ae4b0 4489
bbe902f0
PH
4490----------------------------------------------------
4491See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4492----------------------------------------------------
4493
4494
4495Exim version 4.44
4496-----------------
4497
4498 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4499 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4500 transport
4501
4502 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4503 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4504 place.
4505
4506 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4507 filter fails to execute.
4508
4509 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4510 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4511 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4512 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4513 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4514
4515 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4516 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4517 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4518 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4519
4520 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4521 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4522 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4523 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4524 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4525
4526 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4527
4528 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4529 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4530 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4531 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4532
4533 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4534 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4535 sender verification.
4536
453710. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4538 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4539
454011. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4541 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4542
454312. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4544 ignore_target_hosts.
4545
454613. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4547 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4548 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4549 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4550 "[x.x.x.x]".
4551
455214. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4553 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4554 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4555
455615. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4557 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4558 wake it up if nothing else does.
4559
456016. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4561 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4562 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4563 end up negative.
4564
456517. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4566 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4567
ea3a6f44 456818. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4569
457019. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4571 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4572 empty pattern.
4573
457420. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4575 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4576 one IP address.
4577
ea3a6f44
NM
457821. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4579 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4580 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4581 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4582 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4583 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4584
ea3a6f44
NM
458522. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4586 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4587 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4588
458923. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4590 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4591 $sender_host_address.
4592
459324. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4594
ea3a6f44
NM
459525. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4596 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4597 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4598
459926. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4600 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4601
ea3a6f44
NM
460227. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4603 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4604
ea3a6f44
NM
460528. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4606 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4607 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4608 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4609
461029. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4611 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4612 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4613
ea3a6f44
NM
461430. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4615 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4616 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4617 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4618
ea3a6f44
NM
461931. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4620 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4621 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4622
ea3a6f44
NM
462331. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4624 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4625
ea3a6f44
NM
462632. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4627 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4628 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4629 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4630 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4631 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4632 is going on).
bbe902f0 4633
ea3a6f44
NM
463433. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4635 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4636 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4637 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4638 CAN-2005-0021
4639
ea3a6f44
NM
464034. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4641 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4642 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4643 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4644 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4645 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4646 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4647
4648 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4649 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4650 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4651 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4652 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4653 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4654 CAN-2005-0021
4655
ea3a6f44
NM
465635. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4657 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4658 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4659 CAN-2005-0022
4660
ea3a6f44
NM
466136. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4662 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4663 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4664 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4665 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4666
ea3a6f44
NM
466737. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4668 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4669 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4670 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4671 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4672
ea3a6f44
NM
467338. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4674 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4675 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4676 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4677 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4678
4679
495ae4b0
PH
4680Exim version 4.43
4681-----------------
4682
4683 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4684 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4685 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4686 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4687 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4688 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4689 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4690
4691 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4692 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4693 the delivery.
4694
4695 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4696
4697 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4698
4699 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4700 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4701 to local_scan().
4702
4703 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4704 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4705 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4706 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4707 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4708
4709 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4710 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4711
4712 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4713
4714 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4715
471610. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4717 header_sender only.
4718
471911. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4720 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4721
472212. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4723 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4724 affecting debugging statements).
4725
472613. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4727
472814. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4729 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4730 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4731 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4732 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4733 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4734 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4735 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4736 after the received time, and all would be well.
4737
473815. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4739 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4740 condition in an expansion string.
4741
474216. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4743
474417. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4745 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4746 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4747 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4748 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4749 job under whatever limits there are.
4750
475118. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4752
475319. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4754 space).
4755
475620. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4757 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4758 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4759 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4760 return path is set.
4761
476221. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4763 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4764 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4765 binary data in such strings.
4766
476722. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4768
476923. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4770 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4771 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4772 failure, which is pointless.
4773
477424. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4775
477625. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4777
477826. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4779 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4780 Sender: header lines.
4781
478227. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4783 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4784 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4785
478628. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4787 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4788 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4789 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4790 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4791 happens.
4792
479329. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4794 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4795 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4796 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4797 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4798
479930. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4800 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4801 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4802 1024.
4803
480431. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4805 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4806
480732. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4808 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4809
481033. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4811
481232. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4813
481433. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4815
481634. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4817 syntax error.
4818
481935. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4820
482136. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4822
482337. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4824 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4825 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4826 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4827
482838. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4829 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4830
4831
4832Exim version 4.42
4833-----------------
4834
4835 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4836 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4837 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4838 it was not quoted.
4839 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4840 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4841 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4842 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4843 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4844 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4845
4846 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4847 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4848 verification failure".
4849
4850 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4851 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4852 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4853 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4854
4855 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4856 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4857 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4858 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4859 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4860 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4861 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4862 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4863 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4864 treated as a timeout.
4865
4866 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4867 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4868 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4869 not set for Exim filters).
4870
4871 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4872 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4873 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4874
4875 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4876
4877 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4878 try to make them clearer.
4879
4880 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4881 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4882
4883 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4884
4885 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4886
488710. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4888 only the Cygwin environment.
4889
489011. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4891 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4892 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4893 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4894 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4895
489612. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4897 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4898 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4899 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4900 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4901 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4902 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4903
490413. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4905 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4906
490714. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4908
4909 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4910 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4911 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4912
4913 To: susanne@some.where
4914
4915 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4916 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4917 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4918 of addresses in From: header lines).
4919
4920 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4921 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4922 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4923
4924 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4925 treated as non-personal.
4926
4927 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4928 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4929
493015. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4931
493216. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4933
493417. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4935 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4936 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4937
493818. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4939 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4940
494119. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4942 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4943 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4944 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4945 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4946 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4947
494820. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4949 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4950 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4951 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4952 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4953 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4954 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4955 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4956
4957 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4958
495921. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4960 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4961
496222. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4963 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4964 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4965
496623. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4967 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4968
496924. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4970 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4971 rather than long int.
4972
497325. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4974
497526. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4976
4977
4978Exim version 4.41
4979-----------------
4980
4981 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4982 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4983 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4984 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4985 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4986 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4987
4988
4989Exim version 4.40
4990-----------------
4991
4992 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4993 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4994
4995 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4996 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4997 socklen_t is defined.
4998
4999 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5000 always exist.
5001
5002 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5003 configured.
5004
5005 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5006 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5007 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5008 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5009 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5010
5011 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5012 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5013 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5014 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5015
5016 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5017 of flapping under certain conditions.
5018
5019 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5020 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5021 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5022
5023 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5024
502510. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5026
502711. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5028 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5029 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5030 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5031
503212. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5033 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5034 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5035 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5036 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5037 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5038 preserved with the message after it was received.
5039
504013. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5041 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5042 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5043 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5044 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5045 test suite worked just fine.
5046
504714. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5048 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5049 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5050
505115. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5052 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5053 string.
5054
505516. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5056 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5057 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5058 does not fully solve it.
5059
506017. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5061 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5062 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5063 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5064 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5065
506618. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5067 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5068 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5069
507019. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5071 string, for example:
5072
5073 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5074
5075 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5076 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5077 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5078 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5079 the routers could not see them.
5080
508120. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5082 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5083
508421. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5085 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5086 output).
5087
508822. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5089 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5090 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5091 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5092 that needed quoting.
5093
509423. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5095 was not being matched caselessly.
5096
509724. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5098 backslashes.
5099
510025. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5101 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5102 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5103 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5104 when use_sender is false.
5105
510626. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5107
510827. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5109
511028. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5111
511229. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5113 the configuration file.
5114
511530. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5116 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5117
511831. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5119
512032. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5121 bytes in the message body.
5122
512333. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5124 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5125 delivery.
5126
512734. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5128
512935. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5130
513136. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5132 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5133 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5134 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5135 another IP address.
5136
5137
5138Exim version 4.34
5139-----------------
5140
5141 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5142 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5143
5144 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5145 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5146 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5147 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5148 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5149
5150 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5151 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5152
5153 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5154 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5155 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5156
5157 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5158 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5159 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5160
5161 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5162 for routers.
5163
5164 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5165 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5166 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5167 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5168 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5169 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5170 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5171
5172
5173Exim version 4.33
5174-----------------
5175
5176 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5177 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5178 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5179 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5180 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5181 default (and expected) setting.
5182
5183 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5184 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5185 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5186 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5187
5188 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5189 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5190
5191 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5192 in domain lists.
5193
5194 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5195 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5196 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5197 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5198 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5199 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5200
5201 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5202 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5203 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5204
5205 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5206 part (NOT match_host).
5207
5208 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5209
5210 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5211 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5212 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5213 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5214 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5215 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5216 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5217 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5218 the same named file.
5219
522010. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5221 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5222 when Exim is built.
5223
522411. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5225 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5226 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5227 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5228 a host name.
5229
523012. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5231 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5232 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5233
523413. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5235
523614. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5237
523815. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5239
524016. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5241 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5242
524317. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5244 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5245 before starting the TLS session.
5246
524718. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5248
524919. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5250 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5251
525220. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5253 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5254 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5255 colon in the middle).
5256
5257
5258Exim version 4.32
5259-----------------
5260
5261 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5262 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5263 multiple configurations are in use.
5264
5265 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5266 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5267 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5268 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5269 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5270 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5271
5272 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5273 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5274
5275 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5276 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5277 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5278
5279 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5280 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5281 occurs.
5282
5283 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5284 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5285
5286 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5287
5288 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5289 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5290
5291 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5292
5293 -prval:sval
5294
5295 is equivalent to
5296
5297 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5298
5299 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5300 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5301 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5302 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5303 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5304
530510. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5306 Exim's behaviour:
5307
5308 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5309 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5310 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5311 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5312 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5313 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5314
5315 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5316 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5317 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5318 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5319 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5320 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5321 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5322 string.
5323
5324 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5325 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5326 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5327 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5328 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5329
533011. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5331
533212. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5333 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5334 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5335
533613. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5337
533814. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5339 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5340 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5341 information.
5342
534315. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5344 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5345
534616. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5347 Three changes have been made:
5348
5349 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5350 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5351 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5352 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5353 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5354
5355 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5356 been restored.
5357
5358 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5359 the modified behaviour.
5360
5361
5362Exim version 4.31
5363-----------------
5364
5365 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5366 Larry Rosenman.
5367
5368 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5369 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5370
5371 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5372 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5373 try to track down a specific problem.
5374
5375 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5376 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5377 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5378
5379 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5380 warning.
5381
5382 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5383 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5384 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5385 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5386 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5387 some earlier ones do not.
5388
5389 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5390
5391 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5392 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5393 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5394 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5395 address literals are enabled, of course).
5396
5397 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5398
539910. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5400 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5401 by a command such as
5402
5403 exim -f "" ...
5404
5405 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5406
540711. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5408
540912. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5410 remained set. It is now erased.
5411
541213. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5413 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5414
541514. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5416 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5417 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5418 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5419 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5420 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5421 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5422 appropriate error code.
5423
542415. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5425 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5426 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5427 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5428 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5429 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5430
543116. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5432 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5433 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5434
543517. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5436 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5437 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5438 terminate the header.
5439
544018. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5441 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5442 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5443
544419. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5445 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5446 (4.30/29). In particular:
5447
5448 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5449 imposed.
5450
5451 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5452 to write a maildirsize file.
5453
5454 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5455 the transport, the new value overrides.
5456
5457 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5458 count.
5459
546020. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5461 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5462 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5463 space or a tab.
5464
546521. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5466 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5467 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5468 the fallback hosts.
5469
547022. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5471 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5472 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5473
547423. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5475 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5476 using a union.
5477
547824. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5479 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5480 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5481
548225. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5483
548426. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5485
548627. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5487
548828. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5489 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5490 become corrupted.
5491
549229. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5493 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5494 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5495 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5496 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5497 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5498 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5499 too great.
5500
550130. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5502 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5503 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5504 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5505 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5506 incorrectly.
5507
550831. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5509 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5510 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5511 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5512 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5513 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5514 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5515 cached value only when the same options are set.
5516
551732. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5518
551933. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5520 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5521 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5522 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5523 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5524
552534: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5526 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5527 it is clearly obsolete.
5528
552935. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5530 transport.
5531
553236. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5533 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5534 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5535 times.
5536
553737. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5538 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5539 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5540 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5541 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5542
554338. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5544 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5545 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5546 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5547
554839. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5549
5550 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5551
5552 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5553 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5554 2^31.
5555
555640. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5557 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5558 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5559 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5560 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5561 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5562 $localpart_data.
5563
556441. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5565 with the -f command-line option.
5566
556742. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5568 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5569 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5570 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5571 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5572 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5573
557443. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5575 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5576 line.
5577
557844. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5579 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5580 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5581 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5582 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5583 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5584 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5585 buffer is too small.
5586
558745. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5588 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5589
559046. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5591 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5592 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5593 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5594 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5595 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5596 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5597 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5598 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5599
560047. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5601 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5602 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5603
560448. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5605 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5606 ACL").
5607
560849. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5609 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5610 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5611 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5612 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5613
561450. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5615 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5616 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5617 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5618 is set.
5619
562051. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5621
562252. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5623
562453. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5625 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5626
562754. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5628 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5629 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5630
563155. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5632 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5633 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5634 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5635 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5636
563756. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5638 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5639 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5640 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5641 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5642 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5643 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5644
564557. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5646 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5647 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5648 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5649 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5650 the test of how many are available.
5651
565258. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5653 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5654 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 5655 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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5656 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5657 new message is started.
5658
565959. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5660 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5661
566260. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5663 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5664
566561. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5666 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5667 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5668 is no long logged.
5669
567062. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5671 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5672 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5673 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5674 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5675 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5676 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5677
567863. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5679 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5680 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5681 interpreted as octal.
5682
568364. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5684 setting.
5685
568665. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5687 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5688 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5689 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5690 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5691 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5692
569366. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5694 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5695 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5696 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5697
5698 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5699 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5700 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5701 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5702
5703 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5704 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5705 is a bug fix.
5706
5707 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5708 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5709
571067. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5711
571268. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5713 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5714 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5715 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5716
571769. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5718 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5719 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5720 supplied", which is not helpful.
5721
572270. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5723 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5724 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5725
572671. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5727 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5728 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5729 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5730 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5731 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5732 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5733 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5734
573572. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5736 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5737 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5738 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5739 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5740
574173. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5742 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5743 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5744 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 5745 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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5746 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5747
574874. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5749 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5750 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5751
575275. Added write_rejectlog option.
5753
575476. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5755 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5756 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5757 variables.
5758
575977. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5760
576178. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5762 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5763 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5764 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5765 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5766 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5767 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5768 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5769
577079. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5771 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5772 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5773 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5774 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5775
577680. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5777 Haardt.
5778
577981. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5780 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5781 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5782 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5783 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5784 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5785 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5786 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5787 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5788
5789
5790Exim version 4.30
5791-----------------
5792
5793 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5794 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5795 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5796
5797 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5798 fixed.
5799
5800 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5801 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5802 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5803
5804 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5805 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5806 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5807 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5808 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 5809 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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5810
5811 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5812 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5813 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5814 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5815 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5816 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5817 the Exim test suite.
5818
5819 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5820 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5821 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5822 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5823
5824 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5825 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5826 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5827 specify it in this variable.
5828
5829 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5830 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5831 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5832 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5833
5834 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5835 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5836 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5837 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5838
5839 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5840 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5841 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5842 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5843 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5844
5845 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5846
584710. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5848 they are logged.
5849
585011. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5851 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5852 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5853 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5854 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5855
585612. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5857 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5858
585913. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5860 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 5861 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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5862 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5863 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5864
586514. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5866 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5867
586815. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5869 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5870 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5871
587216. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5873 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5874
587517. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5876 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5877
587818. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5879 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5880 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5881
588219. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5883 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5884
588520. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5886 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5887 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5888 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5889
589021. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5891
589222. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5893 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5894 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5895 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5896
589723. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5898
589924. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5900 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5901
590225. Added .include_if_exists.
5903
590426. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5905 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5906 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5907 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5908 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5909 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5910
591127. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5912
591328. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5914 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5915 this.
5916
591729. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5918
591930. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5920 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5921
5922 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5923 550 Sender verify failed
5924
5925 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5926 the final line of the response.
5927
592831. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5929 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5930 all other user lookups.
5931
593232. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5933 delivery time.
5934
593533. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5936 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5937 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5938 result into an int without checking.
5939
594034. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5941 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 5942 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
495ae4b0
PH
5943
594435. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5945 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5946 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5947 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5948
594936. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5950 correctly.
5951
595237. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5953 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5954
595538. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5956 to the empty sender.
5957
595839. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5959 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5960 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5961 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5962 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5963 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5964 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5965 panic log.
5966
596740. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5968 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5969 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5970 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5971 used.
5972
597341. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5974 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5975
597642. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5977 timestamps.
5978
597943. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5980 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5981
598244. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5983
598445. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5985 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5986 logs.
5987
598846. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5989 as soon as it is encountered.
5990
599147. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5992
599348. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5994 rewritten to "<>".
5995
599649. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5997 recognizes a tab character.
5998
599950. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6000 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6001 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6002 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6003
600451. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6005
600652. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6007 crash.
6008
600953. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6010
601154. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6012
601355. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6014 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6015 2822.
6016
601756. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6018 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6019 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6020 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6021 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6022
602357. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6024 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6025
602658. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6027 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6028 list (.included file names were always shown).
6029
603059. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6031 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6032 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6033 root at that time.
6034
603560. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6036 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6037
603861. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6039
604062. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6041
604263. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6043
604464. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6045 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6046 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6047 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6048 failures to open the logs.
6049
605065. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6051 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6052 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6053 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6054 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6055 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6056 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6057
6058
6059Exim version 4.24
6060-----------------
6061
6062 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6063 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6064 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6065 change 4.23/1.
6066
6067 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6068 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6069 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6070
6071 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6072 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6073 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6074
6075 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6076 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6077 causing some misleading effects.
6078
6079 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6080 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6081 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6082
6083 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6084 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6085 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6086 queue-runner function directly.
6087
6088
6089Exim version 4.23
6090-----------------
6091
6092 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6093 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6094
6095 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6096 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6097 was always written to the default place.
6098
6099 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6100 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6101 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6102
6103 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6104
6105 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6106
6107 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6108 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6109 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6110
6111 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6112 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6113 must start.
6114
6115 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6116 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6117 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6118
6119 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6120 command line option is disabled.
6121
6122 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6123 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6124
6125 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6126
6127 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6128
6129 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6130 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6131
613210. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6133
613411. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6135 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6136 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6137 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6138 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6139 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6140
614112. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6142 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6143 timeout.
6144
614513. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6146 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6147
614814. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6149 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6150
615115. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6152 received was valid base64.
6153
615416. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6155 name of the variable that was being set.
6156
615717. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6158
615918. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6160 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6161 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6162 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6163 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6164 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6165
616619. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6167
616820. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6169 nor realm was specified.
6170
617121. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6172 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6173 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6174 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6175
617622. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6177 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6178 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6179
618023. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6181 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6182 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6183
618424. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6185 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6186 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6187 some systems use these upper case variants.
6188
618925. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6190 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6191 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6192 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6193
619426. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6195
619627. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6197 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6198
619928. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6200 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6201 expansion variable.
6202
620329. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6204
620530. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6206 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6207 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6208 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6209
621031. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6211 using it.
6212
621332. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6214 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6215 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6216
621733. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6218 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6219
622034. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6221 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6222 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6223 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6224
622535. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6226 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6227 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6228
622936. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6230
623137. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6232 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6233 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6234 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6235 aborted.
6236
623738. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6238 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6239 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6240
624139. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6242
624340. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6244 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6245
624641. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6247 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6248
624942. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6250 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6251 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6252 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6253 when emails are that large.
6254
6255
6256
6257Exim version 4.22
6258-----------------
6259
6260 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6261 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6262
6263 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6264 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6265 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6266
6267 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6268 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6269 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6270
6271 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6272 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6273 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6274 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6275 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6276
6277 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6278 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6279 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6280 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6281 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6282 ever.
6283
6284 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6285 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6286 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6287 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6288 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6289 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6290 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6291 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6292 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6293 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6294 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6295 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6296 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6297 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6298
6299 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6300 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6301 parameterised it.
6302
6303 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6304 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6305 error should be diagnosed.
6306
6307 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6308 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6309 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6310 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6311 appeared instead of "NULL".
6312
631310. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6314 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6315 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6316 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6317 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6318 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6319 proceeds).
6320
6321 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6322 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6323 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6324
6325
6326Exim version 4.21
6327-----------------
6328
6329 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6330 or receiver verification errors.
6331
6332 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6333 name.
6334
6335 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6336 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6337 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6338 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6339
6340 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6341 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6342 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6343 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6344 shouldn't happen again.
6345
6346 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6347 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6348 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6349
6350 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6351 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6352
6353 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6354
6355 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6356 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6357
6358 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6359 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6360 RFC.
6361
636210. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6363 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6364 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6365
636611. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6367 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6368 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6369 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6370
637112. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6372 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6373 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6374 to define what should happen).
6375
637613. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6377 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6378 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6379
638014. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6381
638215. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6383
638416. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6385 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6386
4c04137d 638717. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
495ae4b0
PH
6388 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6389 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6390 structure in all cases.
6391
6392 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6393 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6394 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6395 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6396
639718. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6398 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6399 domain name.
6400
640119. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6402 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6403
640420. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6405 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6406
640721. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6408 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6409 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6410
641122. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6412 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6413 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6414
641523. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6416 the book and for uniformity.
6417
641824. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6419
642025. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 6421 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
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6422 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6423 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6424 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6425 non-existent command as the problem.
6426
642726. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6428 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6429 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6430
643127. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6432
643328. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6434 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6435 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6436
643729. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6438 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6439 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6440 timestamps using strftime().
6441
644230. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6443 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6444
644532. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6446 transport-time rewrites.
6447
644833. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6449 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6450 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6451 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6452
645334. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6454 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6455
645635. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6457 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6458 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6459 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6460 comma and a space.
6461
646236. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6463 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6464 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6465 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6466 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6467 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6468 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6469
647037. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6471 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6472 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6473 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6474 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6475
647638. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6477 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6478 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6479 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6480 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6481 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6482 remaining text gets split now.
6483
648439. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6485 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6486 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6487 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6488
648940. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6490 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6491 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6492 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6493 $return_path.
6494
649541. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6496 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6497 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6498 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6499 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6500 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6501 passed through if needed.
6502
650342. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6504 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6505 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6506 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6507 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6508 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6509
651043. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6511 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6512 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6513 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6514 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6515
651644. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6517 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6518 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6519 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6520 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6521
652245. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6523 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6524 noticed.
6525
652646. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6527 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6528 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6529 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6530 mayhem of various kinds.
6531
653247. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6533 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 6534 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
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6535 the right test for positive values.
6536
653748. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6538 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6539 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6540 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6541 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6542 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6543 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6544 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6545 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6546 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6547 envelope.
6548
654949. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6550 module.
6551
655250. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6553 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6554 forbidding it.
6555
655651. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6557 the existing equality matching.
6558
655952. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6560 dealing with inode numbers.
6561
656253. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6563 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6564 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6565
656654. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6567 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6568 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6569 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6570 local_scan().
6571
657255. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6573 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6574 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6575 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6576 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6577 relay addresses has also been removed.
6578
657956. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6580
658157. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6582 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6583 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6584
658558. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6586 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6587 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6588 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6589 processing applies to CR:
6590
6591 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6592 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6593
6594 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6595 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6596 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6597 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6598
659959. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6600 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6601 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6602
660360. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6604 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6605 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6606 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6607 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6608 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6609 arisen.
6610
661161. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6612 program routers.
6613
661462. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6615 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6616 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6617 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6618 adds:
6619
6620 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6621
6622 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6623
6624 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6625
662663. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6627 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6628 not considered personal.
6629
663064. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6631
663265. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6633
663466. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6635
663667. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6637 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6638 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6639 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6640 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6641 header lines, and spool format errors.
6642
664368. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6644 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6645 for more flexibility.
6646
664769. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6648 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6649 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6650
665170. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6652 Sabourenkov.
6653
665471. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6655 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6656 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6657 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6658 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6659 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6660 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6661 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6662 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6663
666472. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6665 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6666 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6667 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6668 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6669 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6670 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6671
667273. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6673 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6674 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6675
667674. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6677 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6678 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6679 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6680 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6681 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6682 instead of killing the process with assert().
6683
668475. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6685 than Unicode encoding.
6686
668776. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6688 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6689 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6690 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6691
669277. Added process_log_path.
6693
669478. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6695 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6696
669779. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6698 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6699
670080. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6701 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6702 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6703
670481. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6705 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6706 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6707 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6708 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6709 were applied:
6710
6711 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6712 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6713 as invalid.
6714
671582. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6716 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6717 they will be used during message reception.
6718
6719
6720Exim version 4.20
6721-----------------
6722
6723The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6724
6725****